An entire year of tatting over - and a new project

This week I realised that I have now been tatting for a year (plus a week or two).  To "celebrate" I'm thinking of digging out all the tatting I've done that I still have and taking a picture of it all together in one place.
Until I get that done, here is a pic from 11 months and 14 days ago which would be about a month after I started tatting...

I've started a new project today - but what it is going to be is a secret for now so that the friends for whom its a present don't find out too soon...
But at the moment you can't tell what it is yet so I'm safe for now :)

The motif on the left will become the middle and will have another 5 copies of the motif on the right.  I'm going to have a little think now about whether to follow the original instructions and cut and tie each one or to see if I can be clever with split rings and climbing out because I really don't like sewing in ends :)
Looking at this picture reminds me that I still struggle with larger rings ;)  With this piece I have the extra difficulty in that I'm trying to keep the tension lighter than normal because I want the finished item to be fairly soft so I'm going to have to be a lot more careful about how tightly I draw up the rings when I close them so that I can keep them a consistent size.  Not tatting too late into the evening will also help as my tension definitely gets worse the later I tat.

This is alongside the current TIAS and working on a long length of some simple tatted trimming.

I'm still here...

I'm not very good at keeping up with blogging it seems!

But I am still tatting and I've joined in with this autumn's Tat it and See (TIAS) which is hosted by Lady Shuttlemaker on her blog with a shared blog with  the results at http://tiaspence.blogspot.co.uk/.  Here's my latest TIAS post.

Last weekend was a long weekend with no tatting because I had this to distract me:

  and this:

and a LOT of this:

Yes I spent a long weekend dog-sitting so that my brothers could take Dad out for a big weekend treat.
Now that I'm back I need to get on with tatting more white trimmings for an Edwardian outfit.

(update) I just looked at the dates of my posts and I've realised my rate of posting drops off suddenly in May so I can blame most of it on getting distracted by the shiny new tablet I bought that month. I've never owned a smart phone so having a gadget like that is quite distracting...  but very handy for the TIAS.