My New Tatting Friend

Gil Hye is my new friend and we met at a local quilt shop here in my small town. I showed her some of my tatted lace that I have been working on and she asked me if I could show her how to tat (with my very limited skills~) How can I NOT oblige???


We started on basic rings and now we are working on this simple ring bookmark. (top pink) This is Gil Hye's first join. =)


Gil Hye is very excited. =) It is very difficult to teach with the language barrier but she is a very quick learner and learned how to do a ring and the flip the first day. Way cool, eh?

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What I've been up to... tatting!

Last month- hard to believe that it has been THAT long i was able to meet Sherry which was a real treat! I definitely needed a refresher course on split rings since I had forgotten what Melissa had shown me previously. (My memory and noone else!) THANKS SO MUCH SHERRY! I look forward to our next visit!



This is the first round of a bookmark for a gift for a friend. The pattern is here. This is done in size 12 pearl cotton (or was it tatting thread?) About the same size thickness I believe.



I pulled out the BIG threads yesterday and did my first floating rings thanks to Melissa's video on youtube! Not the greatest but definitely a start!




This was some experimenting I did after seeing this split ring medallion over at Lisa Trumble's site here. I was trying to do the split rings with the dead spider method instead of flipping the thread around the left hand so it was all experimental for me!

I did this the day after meeting Sherry and my split rings are looking pretty good if I do say so myself!!!

Tatting Blogs

There are two tatting blogs that have recently renewed my interest in tatting. I really want to learn how to do more then just simple rings and chains.

One of them is tatting pattern calender where various tatters around the world offer a pattern a day and variations for every day of the year. Be sure to look in the archives- there is so much to look at and the year has just begun!

The second tatting blog is the 25 Motif Challenge where tatters have joined a challenge to make 25 tatted motifs this year.

One of the patterns at the tpc blog archive looks like a basket and would be a perfect for a crazy quilt motif filled with embroidered and SRE flowers. I hope to try my hand at it soon.

Tatted Motifs

I had made a few of these button motifs a long long time ago ( and did some variations) and loved them! They are fairly simple and I thought I would share the links to the thisntat page.

Rose and Leaf Motif
Pansy Motif
Butterfly Motif
Bumble Bee Motif
Snowflake Medallion 1
Snowflake Medallion 2
Motif with beads
Button Motif 1
Button Motif 2
Button Motif 3

Learn to Tat from Georgia Seitz

These videos from Georgia Seitz are great and show exactly how to shuttle tat. It is nearly impossible to learn from a book (ask me how I know!!!) and these videos give a plain view on how to flip the knot on the working thread.

Check them out!

Little Bit 'o Tatting

I did a bit of tatting this weekend while driving (passenger seat of course) in the car. The container is an old plastic one that had lotion from the body shop- perfect size for four balls of pearl cotton in sized 8 and 12 and a tatting shuttle. When I do a motif in each color I switch the balls out with four different colors and do four more motifs. I am not the greatest tatter- can only do simple patterns and don't fancy to doing strips or long pieces. I seem to work better 'in the round'.