New Book !!!!! (in German)

My New Book !!!

My new book arrived today and I'm SOOOO excited!!! I ordered it through Amazon, who said that it would be coming from Germany, but the packaging said Rome - very international.

Mum - start brushing up on your German, I want to know what it says.

I spent an hour over lunch in a coffee shop looking through it and examining the diagrammes. It looks SOOOOO good!!!!!

I can't wait to get started on it.

Did I mention I was excited yet?

Refreshment Set ... ummm?

from Tatting Doilies & Edgings ed. Rita Weiss

I love tatting in the round and don't like having to join motives together to form the pattern. This set gives me a coaster size all-in-one motive which I can join (if I want) to make a larger item. I found it in a Dover Needlework Series book which is a collection of patterns originaly printed between 1920 and 1944.

I had only made three mistakes up to the time I took the photo. Since then I made another four - two times I joined the ring to the wrong picot and had to open the ring to fix it. The other two mistakes I didn't discover until after doing a three ring clover each time and couldn't fix.

I am using another of the 50 cent balls of perle 8 thread. The dusky rose colour seems to change slightly under tension, so it looks faintly variagated.