Sept 3, early Sunday, 4:30am


So, I happened to run across the tat-a-long from 2008 that Jane eborall did, and it was a hippo.   Since we've had a new baby hippo at our local zoo this year, and have enjoyed seeing it's videos as it learns to do things -so cute - I thought I'd give it a try.   Jane's tat-a-longs always push the envelop and force you to learn new things -hope I can keep up!   I had no idea at all how much thread, so wound 2 shuttles CTM with 5 arm stretches on each... we'll see.   Hmmmm...  I'm thinking I shouldn't have wound CTM, as I'm just making rings with no chains, so if I had not done that, I could have hid my first thread as I tatted the first ring... NUTS!   I am at the last ring, ring 6 and it is a split ring, so I need to re-visit how I did that on her last tat-a-long.  That will wait till tomorrow though, as it is 4:30am already!    I'm trying Lizbeth size 40, #114 Sea Shells to match her colors!

Sept 4, 2017 = Days 1-3 of 10 days:

I usually get a lot of tatting done when I'm having health/pain issues.   It keeps me from wilting and entertains my brain until I feel better, and can get up and work again.  It has been tatting time around here, with my fibro acting up, but yesterday(Sept 5) saw no tatting at all, as I had a tiny, almost invisible demon from hell insect, outside, stung/bit/I don't know what and injected liquid fire into my hand!

Sept 6, 2017 = Day 4, thru wily split ring maneuvers, a leg appears!    

You can download the pdf for one concise pattern, here: http://janeeborall.freeservers.com/Hippo.pdf http://janeeborall.freeservers.com/Hippo.pdf-but the day by day tat-a-long actually has more detail, as there is a graph for each day of a small area to do.

In the right frame of the page, under January, there are links to 8 pages of finished projects!

Day 1:   http://tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/day-1-of-first-tat-it-and-see.html
Day 2:   http://tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/day-2.html
Day 3:   http://tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/day-3.html
Day 4:   http://tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/day-4.html
Day 5:   http://tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/day-5.html
Day 6:   http://tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/day-6.html
Day 7:   http://tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/day-7.html
Day 8:   http://tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/day-8.html
Day 9:   http://tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/day-9.html
Day 10: http://tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/day-10-last-part.html