Bookmarking In the New Ride

My Boy Toy was in town for a few days on leave. Besides taking care of me as I recovered from a recent stint in the hospital, he also traded in my car, who's lease was about to expire, and got me a nice upgrade.

I was still too weak to enjoy my new ride so Boy Toy drove me around to my various appointments. I took the opportunity to enjoy my new heated seats and tat a lovely little bookmark.

Thread used is Lizbeth 113-Jewels size 20. The pattern was a free one found in the Handy Hands catalog.

Goodies from Handy Hands

So a few days ago I requested a catalog from Handy Hands. I use to order from them a lot, but stopped during what I will just call my year long tatting exile.

Now that my exile is over, I figured I'd better start on restocking my pathetic looking stash of thread.

Well, needless to say I was delighted to see the package in the mail containing my new catalog. But I was even more surprised to find all of this stuffed inside the envelope:

Handy Hands Catalog and other goodies

Yup, that's a catalog, a sample newsletter and 3 LIZBETH THREAD SAMPLES!

Have I ever told you just how much I love free samples of thread? If there was a place where I could sign up to be a tatting thread tester, I would do it in a heartbeat. You wouldn't even have to pay me. I'd just do it for the free thread.

If you're curious about the colors I get to play with, here they are:

Lizbeth Threads from Handy Hands

From left to right: #155- Ocean Sunset in size 3, #104-Summer Fun in size 10, #139- Fruit Fizz in size 20

Most tatters are ashamed about how big their thread stash is, but I'm actually the opposite. I have very little in my collection. Maybe I'll take a picture of it to show you just how small and inadequate it really is.