Getting back to tatting - 2 new designs coming soon

I love that my daughter is now an author with her first tatting pattern book.  I've designed a few patterns over the years, but I'm more "let's try this and see what happens" so when something great happens I can't go back and recreate it.  I've got two that I'm carefully writing down and editing as I find what works and what doesn't.

Some ice drops I made

My contributions to the Ice Drop designs.  Patterns by many talent artists found in the facebook group, Ice Drop Addicts.  Not all of mine are here but I've tatted around marbles, beads, and the little glass gems that are used in the bottoms of vases, fish tanks, and more.

  

    

My daughter had her first tatting pattern book printed.  We sold copies at Palmetto Tat Days and it is now available for sale at Tatting Corner.  link to her book for sale at Tatting Corner

It is really cool and there will be another one in the future.  If you aren't familiar with cabone rings there are 4 without rings, and great tutorials for covering cabone rings on youtube.  

Blast from the past, not tatting too much but Palmetto Tat Days is coming up soon!  Hope to reconnect with friends and have a blast.  I'm assistant to my daughter who is teaching a pattern she made.  She is a talented designer and I'm hoping she sells a booklet with all her original patterns there.  I hope to develop patterns in the future, but none I've tried have come to being anything wonderful.

One of my favorite all time photos from tat days - - -

With Elesa, a wonderful tatter from Kernersville, Sue Miller, the tatting Goddess who taught my daughter and me to shuttle tat, and my oldest daughter.  Sue has since passed on but her legacy, not only to her family, but to all the many tatters she has helped, and the public that she helped expose tatting to, her legacy lives on.

trying to stay current with this blog - nothing new tatted, however, great pattern link, love these flowers

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Current projects:

An unconventional snowflake I'm working on.  Pattern is from a book by Jennifer Williams.

and now a bracelet in progress, my own pattern.

well, time is getting away from me, but not going to get away too far.  committed to providing info/photos/ and anything else I can!

Not teaching at tat days this year, but wonderful news - my oldest daughter Paige is!  She has great patterns she designed years ago and will be teaching them.  I'm so proud of her.  I learned to tat and taught her a tiny bit of the basics and she has taken off with it.

her talent is showcased at www.PaigeDeputyDesigns.com which includes personal projects, like tatting and more, as well as her interior design portfolio.

here are a couple photos of her tatting that are of the general type (using rings) that I think she will be teaching us at tat days.

I'm still playing with my spring bouquet flower choices.  Anyone have any colors they love for their spring flowers?  ignore the tape, these "little" bouquets are taped around my computer to keep me happy.

Playing with colors, love these colors together in a bouquet.  Think I need a different purple but the red and yellow are pretty close.  Purple flowers I will be making are like one in first bouquet.  Not sure what shape flowers the rest will be.  I love the leaves, I bought 2 threads, a plain green as a back up in case I didn't love this one.  It is the twirlz thread by Lizbeth and it is the green/blue combination.  I think it makes awesome leaves.

Does anyone out there have any amazing flower combinations?  

this is a heart made with size 10 thread which I have never broken.  I like the dainty look of the smaller threads but get frustrated when they break, normally close to end of project.

this is the 

SweetHeart pattern by Birgit Phelps

Who else has made this pattern?  Who else breaks their thread?

Well it's been a long time again.  Now that I have a day job I hope to blog more often.

Here's one of my biggest frustrations, I break thread too easily. Size 20 is just not my friend.

I get close to the end and break my thread. Yikes!

What is your biggest frustration?

It's been a long time since I've been here.  I hope to blog more often as I am tatting regularly now.

demo of tatting at my daughter Theresa's middle school - hopefully develop more students

this is a pattern I made up that was one of the pieces I had with me at the demo

this is one of my hand drawn cards with added tatted flowers and one little butterfly.

cards are one of my specialities

one of my little snowflakes (love colors)

I didn't have this with me so I took the photo with me.

this is the garter that I made for my daughter in law.

another one of my cards, this one includes dry embossing and stamping with the tatted flowers

teaching in the Triad

Teaching tatting for free, you need to buy 2 shuttles or call me and you can buy them from me at class (cost $5.00)

See older posts for pictures of some of the things you can make.  Currently have a class going at Kernersville library but am available for other locations as well.

fair ribbons

photos not so good but tatting was.  fair ribbons Sept 2010.

more of momma's kids

my son, John, and my new daughter, Piroska, taken May 15, 2010

My oldest daughter, Paige, at age 19



My 10 year old Laura is the tall one by the goal.

the one in the yellow shirt and pink socks is my 11 year old daughter.

the little guy with his foot on the ball and dalmation socks is my 8 year old son. 

tatted garter

garter I tatted for my beautiful daughter in law Piroska