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Free Pattern! "Flat Carnation"
This happy little flower showed itself when I was experimenting with daisy picots and folded rings. The downloadable pattern is here:...
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Hand Dyed and Good News
"Garden Afternoon" hand dyed threadIf you have purchased classes from Bluprint/Craftsy or had a subscription there, the good news is that the classes will live on! Bluprint has been acquired by TN...
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Double Flower Celtic
My video demo of this tatted flower is now on YouTube https://youtu.be/gn5G3aeHesg There's a left handed video there too, but I am not ambidextrous! I simply use an app to flip the video mirror image....
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Hand dyed Interpretation of TotusMel's Bracelet
Many thanks to TotusMel for generously sharing her beautiful Corsage pattern. I chose to use my hand dyed thread in size 5 and followed her pattern using a shuttle. The gauge seems to work up about...
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Color of Thistle
Nature walks in the area around the ballpark (Miller Park in Milwaukee) is one of the best places to avoid crowds these days, as strange as that may seem. There's abundant plant life including...
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Old Tatting, New Tatting
New doily in colors on the right, old doily in white on the left, both tatted by me 40+ years apart. Pattern from a library book. I don't have the book, just the 1970s tatting I did from it. Yes, I am...
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Jacket Project and Easy Weaver's Knot
With the doily finished (knot stitch pattern from Priscilla Tatting Book No. 3), I've decided to sew it onto a white jeans jacket. I'm planning to continue adding more and more colorful tatting onto...
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More Tatting Added to the Jacket
Using the medium shade of green thread left over from the center leaves (plus yellow and orange), I made up the 1st long floral side motif as I went along. Then, I used the finished piece as a guide...
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Hand dyed "Knitty Gritty"
The autumn leaves on the left side of the photo montage were seen during a recent visit to the Boerner Botanical Garden in Milwaukee County Parks. Immediately the thought occurred to me, "Those are...
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New Original Tatting Pattern: Daylily Dance
My new original pattern is done! I've listed the PDF in my Etsy shop. It's actually triangular motifs, each inspired by colorful daylily flowers such as this. There's a good measure of "cut and tie"...
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Wearing My Jacket Embellished With Tatting
Epic fabric art? A try anyway, and fun to do. The designs are my own, except the top round motif on back. That pattern is from Priscilla Tatting Book No. 3.The bottom motif is from my new pattern...
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Free Tatting Pattern for a Dissent Collar
The only techniques used in this pattern are ring, chain, reverse work, picot, join, and lock join. Tat the top row across first, shown in gray on the diagram. Then continue tatting down and up for...
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More Wire and Tatting Pendants
Vintaj® natural brass colored ParaWire, with floral style tatting of my own hand dyed thread. A burst of creativity resulted in 5 new necklaces added to my Etsy shop. I've decided that non-tarnish...
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Every Time I Look in the Stash
I find something interesting such as a gear (still being made!) that works with my unpublished gear earring pattern. If I still can figure out a tatted "gear" substitute for the center (for those who...
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Colors of the Peace Rose
The Peace rose is one of my favorite flowers, and the colors inspired my dye batch by the same name. I've listed some of the thread on Etsy.It's been about a year since I posted my free tatting...
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My 2020 Tatting (and Weaving and Micro Macramé and Wire Wrapping)
In spite of the relentless chaos of the past year, joy was found in staying creative. Some of my favorite projects of 2020:My design "Flutterby Heart"My design "Petal Portal"Zipper pull giftsHandwoven...
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Tatting is on TikTok
There are several tatters already posting on the smartphone app "TikTok" and I've been on it about 5 weeks now. What it's all about is short videos, 60 seconds or less. The format is vertical, which is...
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A Way To Sew Tail Ends In Tatting
In response to inquiries about sewing ends into tatting, I made this video. This method isn't my invention, but simply my demonstration of the process.I'm happy that the new Craftsy website has now...
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Revamping My Earlier Design
Some folks familiar with my Tatted Jewelry book published in 2011 by Annie's Attic may see similar design elements to the "Newcastle" necklace in those pages. Well, 10 years have gone by, and I think I...
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Behind the Scenes
These aren't all the scraps, some have already been thrown out. People have asked me "How do you come up with your designs?" Well, the answer is, "Experimenting". That actually means to learn from...
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