Tatter's Guild Meeting, June

Tatter's Guild meeting was yesterday. I dragged my youngest daughter with me. It's been a while since I brought her. She is growing into a beautiful young lady, taller than me now. She brought her sketch pad, drew a flamingo and a pretty dress while we discussed the annual International Old Lacers, Inc. (IOLI) business.

Familiar faces surrounded the table. Some of these ladies have been in the Guild longer than me. I joined back when my second child was so little that I carried her into the meeting in a car seat. She slept through the whole meeting. To me, nothing has changed. Everyone looks the same. It has been 20 years. 20 years – that never occurred to me until now. Wow. We've watched each others children grow up and get married. I still have 2 of mine at home, but they are not babies anymore.

Starting next month, we are going to be tatting some Christmas tree angels together. Not a required project, but fun, and I am going to join in with them.

We discussed some upcoming local craft shows and fairs. Maybe we will have a booth in the State Fair in Pensacola, FL in November. There is some kind of art fair in Lucedale, MS about that same time. The Greater Gulf State Fair is the end of October, and the Port City Crafters have a craft sale in November. A lot of options.

I was working on a tatted bookmark byJane Eborall. I forgot how to close a mock ring. Good thing I went to the meeting. One of the ladies demonstrated it for me. A couple ladies were working on tatted edgings. One lady brought her bobbin lace. It is so amazing and delicate. She was working on a heart shaped design (almost finished). Another lady was wearing some pretty earrings she had tatted. She has a lot of beautiful tatted earrings, necklaces, and pins, and also tats big projects like shawls, and intricate little dolls. She brought some split ring cross bookmarks she just finished for show & tell. Seeing them made me want to make them too. I'm not going to, but I went home and finished the bookmark I was tatting. Going to the Tatter's Guild meeting is always so inspiring. Now I have dozens of pattern ideas and projects I want to tat swimming around in my head.