tatter tale, tatter tale, neah neah!

that butterfly reminded me how much fun I had tatting, and I've found myself doing a little more.



a practice bookmark I made for Bill.
there are a lot of problems with it, but it was just to get my fingers used to the motions, and he said his books don't care.

and another practice piece:



pattern from here

the little leaves look like crap, because I had forgotten how to make a Self Closing Mock Ring and was feeling too gimpy to get to the computer to look it up. then I ran out of the variegated, so I figured that was enough practice. I'm working on a longer version now. but I really should get back to the knitting eventually.