I did try. I have asked for help.
"O’Donnell points out that “Moral support is great, but if you really want to help, clean my house.”"
Well in my case, please get me out of my jail and the sick house to healthy environment where I can breathe and thereby live. A little.
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What is the best thread for tatting? Lizbeth.
No one makes variegated colour thread like they do this is the wonder of Lizbeth. Also Lizbeth makers are themselves tatters, and so they understand thread better than most. European tatters use Cebellia mostly and Venus or Drimm or something like that.
Why? Work stays stiff as it should with tatted lace and not flop as it does when you work with most other crochete thread. That flower is a thread called Autumn Vine from Lizbeth, and the crouching dragon is Anchor-no-name-just-a-number size 20. Twirls a lot and can exhaust the tatter.
What size works best for most? Size 20 or 30. Anchor does not sell 30 in India. Straight after 20, you get 40. Size 40 is a bit like Lizbeth 20 - only a bit. The threads are very different in quality and ticketing. Anchor 20 is not the same thickness as Lizbeth size 20 and ver soon now I shall be able to tat flowers with both and place them side by side take a picture and post it and paste it for my tatting journal.
I have one. I created one last December when I came home from the mountains and stopped working. I dont work anymore. I stay home all day, all night long.
I turned a tatter. I used to tat. For fun.
Now, I tat for life. For a little air to breathe in so I can stay alive.
Where do you get it? The precious Lizbeth that nearly all American tatter swears by? Barb and her family at Handy Hands make them and sell them, they have no storefront.
I learned to tat years ago but did not know what I picked up in the past five months being with people that actually tat daily.
Tatting is religion for these people and it is ibadat for me now.
design by my fav designer
Immersed in the language of shuttling. Milawrds, Jyoti, Clovers and Lacis, /round robbins, shuttlebrothers, shuttlemakers, DS9/sunlit, moonlit, starlit, slider post, /silent-tatter, aerlit, aero, LaCossette, Prym,/ roseground, etsy, be-stitched, pinterest, renulek and knots, double stitches and picots.... waiting for that moment ... when I would know what to do.
About the house, the mafia developer, psychosis driven mother, the lost brother, the deeds, the missing Will, pending proerty registration, joblessness, danger, abusive relationships and depression.
Lacis by the way, is the handiest best shuttle for making projects that need a lit of thread for people like me that have small hands and little fingers that bruise easily. Holds a lot of thread, doesn't unwind the thread even if it slips and falls from tired hands occasionally, is made in Taiwan and is beautifully finished, comes in five lovely transparent colours - I have one amber coloured, a gift. Lacis is the cheapest shuttle you would find in the shuttle market. You could get one for as less as 63 cents if you go to the seller called Stuff. But they only sell to American citizens with dollars.
the shuttle brothers
India does not make or sell shuttles. There wasone that folded up since we grew up. The Jyoti shuttles.
India does not make lace.
Why did India never make laces? Why did they wear so much lace in Europe and Russia and Scandinavia?
Why did Europe stop making shuttles?
Currently China, Japan and Taiwan are the largest, most popular shuttle suppliers in the world.
Clover is Japanese and one of the most popular among tatters. It is tiny and best suited for making ornaments needing small amounts of thread or very fine thread.
Boyd is Chinese. It is also very good for big projects.
Though the Americans swear by their Moonlit post shuttles, and it is a special post shuttle because it has a hook attached to it instead of a pick which is usual in a plastic post shuttle.
LaCossette bobbin shuttle
Wait, India makes shuttles, the Pony shuttle - it is bobbin shuttle with a metal hook attached to one end for picking out thread and in fact I was there, where Pony has its factory, the manufacturing unit in Kety Nilgiris, that is where I was and the Todas still are. That is where I had met Adhishtha aunty the beautiful - she is a legend in the Toda community, seamstress who lovingly stitched for me to photograph her work. I lost the phone so I lost her phone number, photos and address
With the phone I lost eight years of my life actually for everything was in it.
a Tatsy post shuttle
I learned that grizzly 'bear' is a good word, a coveted 'thing' in the shuttlers' world. They would all love to have one. From the Grizzly Mountains
Grizzly Mountains shuttles tatters would die for
Sometimes one generous kind gesture that is timely can lift your spirits so high as to become the wind beneath your wings and you can find the courage to come out and take a trembling peek at the world once more.
Thank you.
Perhaps I do have a family after all? But do try and get me out before it is too late for a tired and beaten down spirit to be saved.