My tatted snowflake

Really, other than trim it's the only thing I've ever tatted. Tatting alluded me for years.

I makes me sound very full of myself, but I'm good at crafts. If I want to learn how to do something, I do it and push myself to be as good at it as quickly as possible, typically that works. I just seem to have an inborn talent for crafts and making. Although once you know a good number of different things, you often have the skills already for other crafts. For example, if you know how to crochet and move onto knitting, you've already got the tension thing down, it's one less thing you have to struggle with when you are learning.

But tatting we so NOT like that for me and it frustrated me for years! I would find a new book that seemed to have clear instructions, I’d calmly gather up all my supplies and sit down with determination. “I can do this!” Only to get stuck in the same place over and over again. Normally I have no issues learning stuff from books, I actually do much better that way, and while there was an internet when I started, it wasn’t what it is now. Finally, I realized that there were probably videos out there, and was able to pick up in an hour what years of trying never got me. It’s the one craft that I 100% think that almost everyone needs to be shown how to do one critical move.

I learned it, made some trim, then my snowflake... and that’s really all I wanted and I haven't touched it since. I know I’d have to watch a video again and figure it out. But I love this little snowflake and it gets a special spot every year when I put out my snowflakes.