This past January, Jane Eborall hosted her annual Tat It And See adventure. She works hard to design, diagram, and deliver an original tatting pattern in bite-size pieces for Tat Land to enjoy. It is two weeks of creative battery-charging, energy-boosting, doldrums-banishing fun!
You can never tell where Jane will take you. Every stage of her game is fun, since it fuels my imagination to run wild with crazy guesses. (I always try to work in a camel guess early on.)
Each new clue jump-starts my creative brain cells and helps me to see design possibilities. This year she had me guessing right up until the very end.
Without further adieu, I present to you the first of my insinuation of aliens! Chief Blue Meanie from Outer Space! He is tatted with Lizbeth thread, size 20, #707 – Sky Blue Dark.
You know that bittersweet feeling when you get to the end of a very good book? The end of T.I.A.S. each year is a bit like that. It is affecting, conquering new techniques; I have loved the camaraderie; I am delighted by the aliens, and yes, I am sad it's over for 2023.
I will have alien #2, #3 and #4 to reveal in future posts. Stay tuned, tatting friends!
“Everyone’s quick to blame the alien.” ~ Aeschylus