Tatted Heart

Tatting can be done either from a diagram or with written instructions. I had never learned to tat from a diagram so when I saw a pattern I wanted to do, I searched for how to read a diagram. A very friendly tatter saw my post on another tatter's blog and told me to buy the book " Tatting With Visual Patterns" by Mary Konior. I did and this is the result of my first piece of tatting done from a diagram.

I don't like the way the heart starts and finishes so I may change that the next time I make one. The only problem I had with the pattern was that I needed to switch shuttles on some of the chains, but the pattern didn't say anything about switching shuttles. I learned this after winding my shuttle and starting the heart, but managed to attach another shuttle and go on my merry way.

Tatted Earrings

This is the second pair of earrings I made. The first ones have already been given away and I didn't take a picture...they were too long for me. I figured out how to load seed beads on regular crochet thread using a needle threader... it worked! Learned a lot from the first pair.

The first pair I used beads that were too large and didn't have the beads loaded correctly on the threads so they didn't turn out like I expected, which is OK... Kathryn loves them! Here is a link to the pattern I used. I didn't follow it exactly, but it is very similar. Snowflake Earring I have all my new tatting blogger friends to thanks for this. They have inspired me to take up my shuttles and tat again.

TIAS Tatting

TIAS means "Tat It And See". Iris Niebach has this tatting design on her blog and she is a very creative tatting artist. I started after seeing what other tatters had done and finally got mine finished the other day. It took me quite a while to do this, especially since I didn't know how to make a SCMR which stands for Self Closing Mock Ring. With the help of tatting bloggers, I was able to figure this out and now my tatting skills aren't so rusty.

I plan on getting a nice frame for this and putting it up in my quilt studio. I love the way it turned out, even though it took me several weeks to complete.

I've been tatting again :)

Second try at making the Quantiesque Snowflake.

I did much better with my tension and really like this snowflake! I'm sure my daughter is going to request many of these for her Christmas tree in December... better get busy!

I've been tatting :)

My blogging friend, Tatting Chic had this snowflake posted on her blog and I just fell in love with it. I am tired of knitting, so I took up my tatting shuttle last night. I am so out of practice I couldn't remember how to hold the thread! Had to go to her blog for the links to instructions. Now, that is bad... to forget how to do that! Another wonderful tatting site is: Lady ShuttleMaker

Here is the link to the instructions: Quantiesque Snowflake

Here's my snowflake:

I think my tension is way too tight and I need to get back into practice, but I am happy with how this snowflake turned out. I think I'll make another in white :)