Tatting Tea Tuesday

I keep seeing people posting about tatting tea Tuesday. I wondered what it could possibly be. Well, I think I've found the source of it all on Ambitatterous's blog: Tatting Tea Tuesday.

The rules (as laied out by Ambitatterous):

• Set aside some time to tat.
• Put the kettle on for tea.
• Share your progress on your blog or your favorite tatting group list, with "Tatting Tea Tuesday" in the headline or email subject line.

Sounds like fun to me.

An aside for those of you who are wondering. Yes, I still knit, weave, spin and do other fun things with yarn. I'll get back to blogging about that soon.

This week I'm still working on Midnight Violets. I've tatted 16 inches of row one which means I'm almost half way there. I need 38 inches plus two pattern repeats for what I want to do with this. That's a lot of lace. Not to mention that I'll be sewing this onto the fabric by hand, and not onto the edge of the fabric either. I think I'm crazy.

Even crazier, I am wondering what would happen if I spun up some silk for tatting with. I have several one ounce packets of lovely silk... and I like spinning lace weight... hmm...

As for tea. It's just about impossible to find ginger tea without soy in it these days. I found some green tea with ginger and decided to give it a try. It's very nice, quite bitter and not very gingery. It actually tastes a bit like tea, tea. I think honey would be a good addition.

Perhaps I should just grate up some ginger, dry it and mix it with dried mint leaves from my garden.

Here's to more tatting Tuesdays with tea. Finally a good reason for it to be Tuesday.