Great stuff. Time to do one's hobbies is indeed a joy.

Thank you very much.

I'll clean the sponge in a week as well, and I bet it does catch some of the unhealthy gunk that's starting to take over the bucket too much. It's a lot of fun learning to make little ponds.

Thank you so much, and thanks for sewing along with me.

I'm learning about bog filters at the moment, for small ponds, but this one is just designed to work with the rain, and refill regularly, as an experiment.

The pumpkin seed I put in there is today's favourite food. Of course, the bit of apple and the honey water always are a big hit.

That's great, but it might be a good idea to do the Irish Lace Sampler first. The little two panel sampler is where you learn most of the stitches we go on to use in the Buttercup, and it covers each stitch and technique in a lot more detail than I go into in this next project, which you would be easily managing having worked your way through the sampler. It's up to you, of course, but I'm suggesting the easiest route to completing the project for you. Here's the playlist for that. Have fun! kzfaq.info/sun/PL4eA_QDz8srHxS3aDF0KIrgVqSn5E8I99

I can see how that would be an issue, if one didn't refer back to videos in the earlier series, the Irish Lace Sampler vids. Each technique was covered in a more detailed way there, but I amn't able to do very long videos in this series, for equipment reasons, so I couldn't cover the techniques in detail again, and keep each one under 20mins. I've kind of designed the series as Sampler and Buttercup together, if you see what I mean, and I refer viewers back to the earlier videos to clarify points of technique, in the current series. If you bookmark the playlist for the sampler, to refer to, it makes it much easier to find what you need, and I'm also bringing this out as a pdf instructional book in my Etsy shop when the series is finished, to include the two projects together, for anyone who likes to have written instructions as well. I really appreciate that you're getting such fun out of these lacemaking videos, and giving really useful feedback.

p.s. That diamond pattern is really an intermediate level technique, so well done to anyone who managed to get the stitches counted right, for all the rows, and the pattern looking nice in the end. You can call youself a decent Irish Lace maker now!

@@Skavop aww thank you, second time went better but even attempt 1 looks pretty decent. I will see if I can find your etsy shop. I'm totally taken with this lacemaking x

I know what you mean, and you did really great. Because I haven't made the last video yet I haven't got the tutorial book up in the shop yet, but the shop link's here, if you want to have a browse around www.etsy.com/shop/DonnaEmeraldArt

Well, thank you for commenting, and glad you're enjoying the series.

Yes. Two completely seperate threads. One is the doubled thread for the cordon, and the other one is threaded onto your needle. I hope that clarifies it. I hope you enjoy doing it, and feel free to ask any other questions about the techniques I show as you progress through it.

By the end of the video, I'm thinking it must be two separate threads.

​@@xmobile. Yes indeed. In fact, if you are starting completely fresh, and find it confusing, I'd advise you to do the Irish Lace Sampler project first. It has its own playlist, consists of 6 vids, and goes through each part of the process, and each stitch, in a very detailed way. Takes a few sessions to do. Just a suggestion, and it's up to you, of course. The link to that playlist is under this video, in the Description Area.

I kept about 30 ants, with hopefully some polygyne queens in there, and slotted the remaining section back down into the original nest, after keeping it intact in a bag overnight. The rest seemed OK about going back in. Queens are quite hard to distinguish from the others, with not much of a size difference, but I think I found a few. Fingers crossed everyone's happy with the living arrangements.

I carried out the plan, and have them in an aerated bucket as a holding area before I transfer them, soil and all. I'm pleased to say there wasn't too much disruption to the other part of the colony, and the section of soil I cut out, about 3 inches deep, hopefully has a few queens in it. I did see some brood, and the workers seem calm, so long as they have their patch of soil intact. I'll let you know how the terrarium transfer goes in a few days.

It'll all be there for you when you're ready. Don't work too hard.

Thank you very much.

I don't think it would be a great idea on thread so fine, because you might have a bit of a job trying to pick it out at the end.

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I'm not 100% positive on the ID, so if you know differently, feel free to let me know, and I'll check it out further.

Oh, that's great Mary. I hope you'll keep us posted here if it's going well (only if you feel like it, of course), 'cos every moment not smoking is a triumph. A day or a year, it's the intention to do something about it that's the important thing. Go for it, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you.

@@Skavop I’ll just have one more, then I’ll quit for good! Ha ha. I’ll keep you posted.

@@MaryMacKercher Well done on deciding to try again. That's the most important step.

I'm glad you enjoyed them.

She's continuing to dig tunnels at the edge of terrarium, which is great to see, and I have my fingers crossed that she'll put her claustral chamber right at the edge, so we can all see it.

It's a pleasure.

Have fun, and thanks for the positive feedback.

Aw, thank you so much.

They are very cute in their teeny delicate way, aren't they? Great means of monitoring progress, too.

I'm so pleased you are going to give it a go, and thanks for the nice complement.

Thank you.

Hope you enjoy it. I've one more video for the current project, the lace sampler, then the new one starts. Looking forward to it myself, even though I've done this example one already.

Well, you will get to do loops again on the next project, which I'm looking forward to myself, and it sounds like you're doing really well so far, and learning lots, which will give you confidence for the next one. I'll try to include a couple of new stitches to add to your repertoire on that as well.

@@Skavop thank you. I am hooked !

You're so welcome, and thanks for the positive feedback on it. I'm very pleased to be able to share these techniques, because I find it such fun to do, and love to see others get into it.

Thank you, and I hope you enjoy doing it.