It's been such a long time since I'd been to a crafting class that I wasn't teaching! When I signed up to this Cro-tat class from Rainbow Valley Crochet, I was so excited... I could hardly sleep the night before, and I got there so early the workshop wasn't even open yet and I had to go looking for a cafe that was actually open before 10am (strange, you'd think most of them would be... but apparently not on Rochester High St).
The class was being held at Unravel & Unwind CIC and when I got there and got to meet Helen from Rainbow Valley Crochet and get stuck in, I was just so thrilled. The time went by very quickly indeed and I got nearly one entire ornament done, minus the final round, before I had to pick my daughter up from school.
What a great workshop it was! I ordered all of the kits so I could make more at home with my new skills.
Cro-tat is a combination of crochet and needle tatting and it was actually the first type of tatting that I ever learned, but I only tried it a couple of times and then years later I discovered shuttle tatting... but I think now that I've tried it, I like cro-tat better. :) I suppose really I could now try needle tatting too!
Anyway... This is my first foray into Christmas Crafting for the year, not counting the samples I made for the beginner's cardmaking classes at Unravel & Unwind. The first one is on Monday the 14th of November, in case you were wondering... :)
And I'm sure you were wondering what this Blogtober 2016 thing is that I keep banging on about. Check it out on the original post.
As Blogtober 2016 draws to a close, I will be blogging my thoughts about it all... tomorrow.
2 comments:
They are beautiful :-)
Awww these are really cute - well done x
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