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Shuttlebirds 2018 Day 3
Today was a day for happy exhaustion. Our brains are full of new techniques, and our shuttles are (mostly) empty. I took part in 3 classes, The Pua Melia Flower class taught Turkish Tatting and the...
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Necessity and Invention
In my current project, I wanted to do a split ring to climb out of a round. The difficulty was, I was using a Shuttle and ball, not two shuttles. A small difficulty, since I could slllooowwly finger...
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Bookmark Buzz
Everyone has been excited by the new bookmark patterns coming soon from Tatting By The Bay, and I am no exception. Robin allowed me to test tat the Peacock Bookmark, which is as lovely as the name...
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To Knit or Knot
It’s been quiet on here for a while, because I have been learning how to knit. My first project is a garter stitch scarf, and I'm really pleased with how it’s going! This is a Tatting blog, so I...
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Beaded Baby Flake
I’ve been working on a few big projects, but they aren’t Tatting so I do miss it. Here’s a little bit that I worked up today as a treat. Sharon’s Baby Flake. It was a great reason to pull out the...
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Confessions of a Bad Tatter #1
I overfill my shuttles. Not just sometimes, all the time. In each and every project there will be at least one bulging shuttle. I can hear the shuttle lovers all over the world crying out “Why? How...
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Doing The Monster Mash
Have you ever noticed that Jan Stawasz Monster Doily and also Doily IV from Tatting Theory and Patterns look a lot alike? I mean practically identical through the first 6 rows! I’ve been wondering...
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2 Forward 1 Back
Sometimes when I’m working on a big project I run out of momentum. Not a huge surprise, and it probably happens to all of us. When I don’t feel like working on the main doily, I bring out my side...
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Frog Legs
About 5 minutes after I started tatting this, I knew....the color combination just wasn’t working for me. But it wasn’t until row 2 that I started having real trouble with it. Here’s a picture, let’s...
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The Fan and Dagger
Isn’t that a dramatic name for a tatting project? I might be raising expectations a bit high with it. Well, nobody has to call it that if they don’t agree. As I’ve said before, my naming skills are...
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Car Steering Wheel Cover
In summer, the temperature inside a closed car can get unbearable, and the steering wheel is too hot to touch directly. In the past, I put an elastic sided cover on my steering wheel, but the elastic...
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More Wheels
This week I started two new projects and both of them have “wheels”. Wheels are a design element that have been featured in tatting for a long time, but it’s nice to see them in new patterns as well....
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Through the Roux
The Lagniappe pattern is broken up into different sections. Rows 1-4 are called The Roux. You should buy the pattern to see why this is, but Beware! It might make you hungry!
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Lagniappe Row Nine
It has been a while since I blogged about tatting. Not that I haven’t been tatting in the meantime. But I feel like it’s spamming the feeds to post a project on more than one forum. Most of my...
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Lagniappe- The Levee
This outside section of rows is called the Levee in the pattern. It holds together the center, and makes a break before the larger woven band section. I had originally planned for it to be all...
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When Your Mind Wanders...
...Your tatting will go wandering too. Good thing I looked down before I closed the ring!
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Looks Can Be Deceiving
This looks good, right? I think so anyway. Too bad the pattern version has 6 points, not 5! I’ll figure out something else to do with it, but it sure makes me grumpy when I finish something that...
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Medallion Doldrums
I have been working away at the Lagniappe doily. Here is a picture of what I finished yesterday. So far I have 8/12 medallions done up to row C, and there are 2 more rows to be done on each. It’s...
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Heat Wave
Here in the PNW (Pacific NorthWest) we are having record high temperatures this weekend. It is absurdly hot, but we have a mobile air conditioner so there is one comfortable room in our house. This...
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Want to Tat A Long? - 1907
Old doily patterns are great to make, but I find the written instructions hard to keep in mind. I decided to stick the stitch count on the photos, and post them here as I go for others to see and...
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1907 - Row 2
Ready for the next row? This one is easy, and the stitch counts will continue to be the same for the next 5 rows. The original pattern did not have the small rings joined together above the trefoil,...
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1907- Row 3
If you’re following along, now I need you to do me a favor. Go find some safety pins, paper clips, stitch markers, long bits of thread, or hoop earrings. You will need 12, but they don’t have to...
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1907 - Row 4
Ready for the next round? Remember that up to row 7 the stitch counts are all the same, so don’t feel like you have to wait for me. I’m a slow tatter, and it’s fine to work ahead! Here’s the pattern...
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1907 - Row 5
With the stitch count being the same for these rows, they might all be blurred together for you. It certainly is for me! Row 5 is a continuation just like row 4, but take consolation from the fact...
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1907 - Row 6
No surprises here, row 6 looks a lot like row 5 did. The stitch count is the same, and I don’t know about you, but I am really looking forward to tatting something different. Just one more row, then...
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