I elected to try the Field of Daisies tatting last night. I would up my shuttle, created my first ring, and realised I didn’t know how to join the next part on. The pattern says to do the join, where to do the join, but not how to do the join. And then I noticed I wasn’t at that par anyway and needed to effect a chain with picots. Except I didn’t know how to do that, either. There was a link to the instructions (coo, those forceps look like a wizard idea!) but I was in my bed and not at a computer.
So, my new tatting project got no further than a ring with three picots. I did a lot of un-knotting, though. I am sure that was good practice.