This is the Flower Bouquet Heart from Martha Ess’s book, Tat’s Amore: A Collection of Tatted Hearts I made a few modifications. I tatted the flowers first, then the heart. That way I could make ...

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I am not sure where I would use this as yet, but I know it’s beautiful and I need to save it for later. What are some ideas of where I could use it? Tatted Tree’s pattern.

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I've put together a list of my favorite, boho and adventure styled fonts that are 100% fo' free. Whether it's a dreamy script or edgy block lettering...

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Rune tattoos are a popular choice for those who want to express their Norse heritage. Runes were the ancient alphabet of the Norse people, and they can be

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Tatting for leisure, learning, and practice.

Tatted Snowflake: I have been working on putting tatting around an ornament, but took a break to show you a tatted snowflake i came up with. Supplies: Tatting thread size 10 Tatting needle size 5 Beads (60) Collapsable eye needle Scissors Inner part of the …

I like the idea about how dreaming is so close to death. So it goes like dreaming-moths-skull-death when I was sketching it. Maybe it’s too loose reference, but i kinda like it.

All other projects are on hold at this time. I have to tat about 120 pieces of these small flowers in and I have about two weeks to do it. Luckily, for what these flowers are intended, it does not require hiding the ends. That should save me some time. I am trying out my new Clover shuttle, the latest one that comes in milk and chocolate colours. Clovers are my favorites if I want to get things done fast, so it works just fine for me. This is the chart for the flower. The full pattern is, with shuttle and ball - Ring (4-7-7-4), RW. Chain (3), RW Ring (4+7-7-4), RW Repeat chain and ring to complete the flower. The last join of the rings will require a folded join. It is a basic shuttle and ball pattern, but since the chains are very short in between the rings, I am only using the shuttle with a little bit of finger tatting for the chain. What I do is to start the ring with a tail of about 22cm of thread, pulled out from the shuttle. I tat the first rings, but I do not reverse work. Instead, I used the tail at the beginning and finger tat the chain by wrapping the double stitches over the core thread. Easy easy, :)

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This is my very first blog entry for my very first blog! I finally decided to start a blog about tatting because tatting is what I love to do. I started tatting twenty-five years ago while raising my daughters, and it has become a significant part of my life. With the help of my oldest daug

Sea Turtles Found this adorable pattern on Jane's site. They were made with Messy Jessy thread. Looks like they are heading to the ocean. They are going to be changeable earrings. Finally a little tatting done.

I have decided to do another 25 motif challenge since I had so much fun both times. This bookmark is my motif # 1 the third time around. I used Lizbeth Size 20 thread called Carousel and I did front side/back side tatting. I figured out that when I am working the directional ring if I put the shuttle through the loop before I close the ring it looks just like the opposite ring. This pattern was provided by Jane from South Africa who rewrote a pattern from an Anna Burda magazine. You can find it on Jane Eborall's blog. It's the March 11, 2009 entry.

I'm joining the tat-along of the huge Jan Stawasz doily at InTatters . It's been difficult to keep up with Rachael and Grace, but here I am ...

My shuttles have been languishing, I'm having tatting withdrawal symptoms! I'm tatting Black Magic from Tatting with Visual Patterns by Mary Konior. It's been on my to-do list for a while. The thread is Olympus size 40, wonderful to tat with. I made a false start. Lesson one: count picots carefully before tatting the next element!

When we went to Idaho this summer for a funeral, we stayed at some friends of Bruce’s sister. They were so generous to have us there! And I made a new…

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I was hoping to post yesterday, but I ended up having freezer issues last night. This cut into my tatting time, and subsequent motif blocking time. I was really looking forward to the first Tatting Beer Tuesday. I did have a Guinness while tatting yesterday evening. Maybe next week. Anyway, here is what I had hoped to show you last night. I'm sure by now you have seen Fox's two renditions of Mary Konior's Ring A Ring O' Roses snowflake, from Tatting With Visual Patterns. Check out her blog if you haven't. I was inspired to try the snowflake again. I started tatting one using some thread I got from the Thread Exchange. Here it is, in all its glory: Kinda. Apparently, this snowflake require more than 12 yards/metres of thread. The thread is Coron size 40, #156-7B, from Umintsuru. This is a really nice thread to tat with. I too wonder if there is a North American supplier of the thread. Probably not, since Google wasn't much help. Anyway, I decided to leave the snowflake unfinished until I am able to get more to finish it. Not satisfied with leaving the snowflake as a UFO, I started again with some good ol' Lizbeth. Here is the result: This is Lizbeth 20, colour # 147 Red Burst. It may just be me, but I like how the variegated threads work with this pattern. I have to admit, I didn't find the pattern to be particularly difficult to tat. It just takes a while. There are really no fancy techniques. The difficult looking 'triple ring' is a single ring with two chains surrounding them. There are a lot of thrown off rings, but they aren't difficult either. While its not mentioned in the pattern, I found it necessary to switch shuttles regularly to get the thread in the proper position. This isn't a problem, it just slows the tatting process down. It is still a nice snowflake, and one I'd definitely tat again. That's it for now. I picked up my ring order Monday and have worked on a few projects. My Etsy Showcase on Monday wasn't as successful as I'd hoped, but the increased exposure may help. A number of items got favorited, which could become sales later on. I'm going to leave the free shipping active until the end of the week. Till next time.

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This is motif #21. I tatted this motif with Marilee Rockley's l ovely HDT . This color reminds me of Hello Kitty and hearts. ...

Interlocking Rings made with shuttle - thoughts & review of techniques

So the semicolon tattoo project day has come around again and since this is my second year, I got the trinity on my wrist! The semicolon tattoo project is a promotion to raise money for Agora and...

Free tatting pattern for snowflake, called Neemiss Snowflake. An original pattern

I found the source of the flower bookmark pattern in my last post! Rexie, (here’s her website) very graciously wrote me with answers to my questions. The pattern is from the book Tatting Tre…

The annual sale held by my parents' church was this weekend. I didn't tat as much for it this year as I normally do, but that's probably a ...

Here is the dragon, at long last! Can you believe that this: ...is what grew out of that: Perseverance!

I'm tired of winter-- hence the new background. As part of my effort to pretend it's summer, I tatted Karey Solomon's hummingbird, from her book Make Many Merrily. The thread is LadyShuttleMaker's "Marina" in size 80. I'm not sure if she's still making this colorway-- I hope so, because I don't have much of it left. This is a fun pattern to make, what with the floating chain beak and block tatted wing. As you're tatting it, that block tatting looks alarmingly straight, but it develops this nice graceful curve as you add the feathery chains at the back. This is not the first time I've tatted this pattern. I first made it several years ago for my grandparents. Now that they have both died, it has been given back to me. In this version, I used rayon machine embroidery threads in turquoise and green doubled with metallic threads in silver and gold, and let me tell you, that was NOT a fun combination to work with! The rayon by itself was no problem-- the flowers in this picture are the same type of thread, and they were easy-- but combine the rayon with another thread with completely different characteristics, and it becomes a nightmare. Moreover, when I made this one, as you can see, I made alterations around the beak in order to change colors. I made the beak in advance, in plain black cotton, and set it aside. I started the bird using two shuttles in the turquoise/ silver threads, and when I got to the beak, tied it on-- sorry, I can't remember exactly how-- then cut off the second turquoise/ silver shuttle and replaced it with the green/ gold shuttle. In the block tatting section, you can see that one turquoise/ silver shuttle is still there. The bead used for the eye is sewn on later, when I sewed the bird to the fabric. If I hadn't been so determined to make it in these colors, I probably would have given up; it was much easier making it the second time around, not only because I was using ordinary cotton thread, but also because I used the same thread throughout-- an advantage of tatting this particular pattern in a variegated thread. And as an example of the difference thread size can make, here are the two birds together: I'm planning to put the new bird on one of those little organza bags, but I need to tat a few other things to go with it, so it could be a while.

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I hope this tutorial can help beginners to shuttle tatting get the basics of tatting, i.e making the ring, chain and a join. To prepare for...

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I'm showing all these complete sets of fabric ATCs first. This is the set of alphabet "E" - we have 3 elephants (my tatted one, Ann's one in outline and Mari's African one), emu from Sherry and Eames chair from Norma. In case you are wondering, the word "elefant" on Ann's ATC wasn't a mistake, but the German word for elephant. And if you have missed my earlier post about the Eames chair, you can click on the word to go back to the post to find out what makes this chair so special. Next is "F" - my tatted from piece, Mari's (on the left) and Sherry's (right) fish. Then comes "G" - my tatted goose, Mari's giraffe, Sherry's gray goose and Norma's grapes. Lisa Cottrell (USA) has caught up on her swaps, and these 3 pieces came together - snowman for the X'mas swap, "U" is for Unicorn and "W" is for Wolf. With the snowman piece in, here's all the X'mas ATCs - my tatted "JOY", Vicky Baker's wreath, Eileen Carkott's snow scene, Sue Cox's snow globe, Sharon Scothern's reindeer and Lisa's snowman. Lovely collections, right!?! Now, back to my creations. Another pair of paper dolls "Queen for A Day". I know they weren't too creative, but that's my dream for a Queen - wearing designer's clothes and jewellery, and walking a poodle. This is my boy's school project - constructing a lantern for the Chinese New Year with recycled materials. Can you spot them ? Toilet rows, egg crate, and in fact, the pink tissue papers which were used to wrap things that came in a box from USA some time back. I didn't throw them as the pink is so sweet, came in useful now. We are calling it the "Pavilion of Fortune"! I just finished a beginner tatting class last weekend with Christine, Gina, Hazel and Shireen. I was inspired to design a simple floral pattern for them to try. It started off as a simple flower on the left, then the flower got bigger, and became 2 with leaves and vine. Finally, I have Floral Bliss done, dedicated to the girls, in celebration of Spring, and a gift for everyone.

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I have decided to do another 25 motif challenge since I had so much fun both times. This bookmark is my motif # 1 the third time around. I used Lizbeth Size 20 thread called Carousel and I did front side/back side tatting. I figured out that when I am working the directional ring if I put the shuttle through the loop before I close the ring it looks just like the opposite ring. This pattern was provided by Jane from South Africa who rewrote a pattern from an Anna Burda magazine. You can find it on Jane Eborall's blog. It's the March 11, 2009 entry.

This is a pic of 2 dragons I tatted. The patterns are by Anne Bruvold and here are the links: http://www.georgiaseitz.com/2009/annebringtrimmikrodrageeng.pdf This is for the little dragon, Ringtrim http://www.nuperelle.net/drager/monstre/MinidragerEng.pdf This is for the larger dragon Anne has done a fantastic job of designing these patterns. I have a book with some dragon patterns for sale at my stores by Karey Solomon. I haven't tried any of them but if you're a dragon lover like me you may want to get a copy.