Tatting A Hankie

This is definitely not a project that I will be taking along to appointments.  This is by far the thinnest thread I have worked with so far.  After two stores, I finally found #80 thread for this project.  

I crocheted the edge with vintage thread I had on hand, and it is thicker than the #80 thread.

My 14 year-old daughter took a look and said, "is that all you got done?"

Yep.  That's all I got done today.

And I have a feeling I will need to make a few more hankies to get them exactly right.

After that, I want to make a pair or turtle earrings for another daughter's birthday present.  This is very tedious work, working with #80 thread.

More Pickles ~ Fun and Frugal Entertainment

Ahhhh......more pickles.  And yet I still have some producing on the vines.  And more on my table.  Gotta love those pickles.  I really need to get my root cellar dug. 


In the evening I typically try to un-wind as some point.  To do that I grab whatever craft I am working on, or do what we did last night.  I could classify it as exercise too. 

If you follow my blog daily, you know that part of our family motto is "wear it out."  So we dug out the old 45's and danced.  And laughed. 


I think my kids just experienced culture shock or something.  They spent most of the night laughing at me having such a good time.  From "Jim Dandy" to even older titles, I played half way through the stack.  Of course, I still had 45's from my teen years, and played a few of those (Don Henley and more).  At one point in my life my mother had a garage sale, and I sold all of my albums, which the kids are still complaining about.  My first album ever, was J. Geils.  


Even thought those albums are gone, we still order the titles on CD from our local library.  My kids actually like some the music I used to listen to.

I ended the night with some soothing oldies from back in the 70's or older.  From what I could tell, only one 45 is cracked and one is chipped off.  The only complaint from me - my record player is not loud enough (ha ha ha ha!).