This is the ring doily from DMC Book of Charted Tatting Designs. I started it as a gift for Administrative Professionals Day but didn't have time to finish it so I gave something else. I'll gift it somewhere else - maybe one of the PIF's I've got going on Facebook. I'm actually further than this since I had a doctor appointment this morning and tatted in the waiting room. I only have a little bit to go now. Good news is that the doctor released me from his care. The break is not completely filled in but it's good and he doesn't need to see me any more. Now I just need to build up the muscle and strength in both legs.


I'm teaching a beginning class in a few weeks and I've been looking for easy motifs. It's only 2 hours and my experience is that people barely get the hang of the stitch in that time frame, let alone finish something so I'm finding the smallest and easiest motifs I can. Of course there is the basic 4 ring butterfly which is probably what I'll go with for rings but we'll be doing chains too and that's where I need to find something super simple. There are tons of patterns that will work. I just need to settle on SOMETHING, make up my samples and go from there.

In the meantime, I thought these sweet doves by JoAnn Stearns will work nicely on some of the puzzle pieces so I've left the thread ends long in case I want to sew them on a piece later. The blue one is in size 10 thread and the white one is probably size 80 thread. Big difference, huh?