If you tat long enough...

I was doing an update yesterday on the 25 Motif Challenge and noticed a comment made by a newer tatter about how she thought she was finished with a pattern and cut the thread, only to realize seconds later that the design wasn't quite finished. It got me thinking about all the little "I can relate to that." episodes that we all have experienced at one time or other.

Things like:

• The aforementioned, cutting the thread too soon.


• Snipping through a picot while trying to cut off the finishing ends


• Joining to the wrong spot.


• Missing a picot.


• Skipping an entire pattern repeat.


• Running out of thread at the very last ring.


• Hiding ends and having them pull back out.


• Starting CTM so that you don't have ends to hide and then making a mistake at the beginning that you have to cut out so that you now have 4 ends to hide.


• Using an entire ball of thread like a shuttle to avoid having to wind the second shuttle.


• Unwinding a full shuttle to add beads in because you miscounted when you started.

Now if you can't relate to any of these things, just wait, you will eventually.

Here's something you won't see in my upcoming snowflake book.

As you can see, this design that started with the typical 6 points of a snowflake has devolved to where it would have only 3. What was I thinking?