Saturdays - nuntium duocentesimum quadrigesimum

I have been tatting- really.  And I've been reading blogs too.  But mostly I've been doing school.  This year I have a completely new textbook for French and a new edition for my 7th and 8th grade Latin books.  That means that just about every spare moment is devoted to prep work.

Here is how I face hours of preparation work.

Assam tea

Here is the tatting I've been sneaking in too.

That's Robin Perfetti's Noelle in the front, a few from an old book of snowflakes (it's upstairs) maybe the one with 24 flakes?, a few of Frivole's Le Flocon Frivole, a couple of Betsy Evan's snowflake, a Frivole Bentley, a Jane Eborall Teeny Tiny, a small pile of Elizabeth Zipay's Elizabeth's Snowflake, a pile of Decoromana's  small snowflake(I can't find her Etsy shop anymore) and a pile of one I saw on pinterest with no attribution (and no pattern).

nuntium centesimum nonum (109th post) TIAS

I really did do the TIAS as it was happening but these days, it's either tatting, teaching, correcting, prepping, reading blogs or blogging.  Blogging seems to just slip off the plate. 

So here are the pictures of the little pram as they occurred - except the ones that have disappeared?  I suspect I'll find those in June.

And a huge thank you to Jane who made some crazy days in January a little brighter and warmer.

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Lizbeth size 20, Scottish Thistle and Dk Purple (Dk Green was a disaster)

One of the off-shoots of this is that I might be running a mini-TIAS in the future!  My students were so excited to see this happen and guess what it was.  Jane might have said that she would help me do one for my students privately but then she was in the middle of a zillion emails so might have just been giddy.  Maybe there are others who would like to try a junior TIAS because they have just started tatting.  So, keep an eye here, pros will be allowed to participate too- haha!

And three of those students have mastered split-rings!  I'm so proud of them.  Here are some pictures of young hands doing something it took me 30 years to learn!

Aren't they brave?




Latin for today:  eos admiror = I admire them!