Tatting Resources, etc

 If you came across my blog because you're looking up tatting, here's some online resources

Craft bibliography website (check to see if that author/book is real - AI fakes are a real problem)

Antique Pattern Library - free, old patterns. Can be hard to decipher.

Online Tatting Class Founded by Georgia Seitz, the videos were live streamed

Noo Bear's tatting tutorials (videos)

Jane Eborall's technique tutorial (drawings)

Jane Eborall's patterns (free patterns)

Sparrow Spite's videos 

A Twisted Picot has some videos and they carry supplies

This one starts from loading the shuttle (videos) 

A selection of other sources to get supplies (A Twisted Picot link above) (no particular order)

Herschner's has perle cotton (and floss, but mostly embroidery, knitting, and other fiber arts, etc; incl. kits)

 Lacis is a lace and textile museum, that also sells supplies and patterns

 Tatting Corner has tatting supplies as well as other crafts

 Handy Hands is another good shop

 You can also check Etsy for hand dyed thread and painted or crafted shuttles. 

Don't forget to check your local fiber shops and resale shops.

Trying to get back on schedule

 Went to see my parents last weekend. And since I took the train, I got some tatting done. Learning entwined rings, and trying in size 3 since size 40 about broke my brain.

 I tried it with some linen thread I had, but running out of thread and reloading messed me up.

 I made an earring from Marilee Rockley's book Tatting with Beaded Jewelry, but size 10 is a bit large/long for earrings for me. This will probably be a bag charm or a pendant.

 I've done it again in black size 20 thread. With smaller beads, too, of course. 

It snowed this week. We got about 3 inches of it. Then some melted and froze again. Then melted and froze again. 

Not far from my house, the day after it snowed

very wintry look

I got some shuttles from the craft resale shop. One is a Tatsy, with the instruction packet. There was a Boye shuttle in the same package, with some thread still on it. I tatted one of the patterns from the sheet.

I ran out of thread

 There was also an Aerlit,, with thread and a few rings tatted. I had to retro-tat a ring that had gotten twisted up, then continued the edging until I ran out of thread. I tat much tighter than that original tatter.

 As a bit of a giggle, I made a hat for a coworker's cold cat.

 

And I made progress on my scrap bag (from Karey Solomon's Bring on the Buttons) during Richard Embry's Tat & Chat yesterday.

And I spent some time practicing Marilee Rockley's technique for Victorian set split chain. I haven't mastered it, but I do have a better idea. Bad picture, but it was the only one I could get at the time.

 

Catching up I guess

Been busy, so here's a summary of my activities since the fair, in reverse order. There have been some other mending jobs, and some other tatting. Some trips via train to see family.

 

beaded lanyard (Kelly Slack wristband pattern)

original button basket design

beaded wristband (pattern by Kelly Slack from A Twisted Picot)

My pocket scarf in progress (pattern by Loomahat)

A green and yellow basket (playing with Victorian Sets)

Finally finished this bracelet

Finally put the jump ring on this pendant

darned a sock, and it's wearable

Some visible darning

a heart pattern (from a Palmetto Tat Guild hybrid meeting, Jan 2025)

Loom knit scarf slide, on fabric strip as demonstration

Martha Ess's Dorset button star/flake

Martha Ess's Dorset button teapot

A year in thread pt1

A year in thread (orts) pt2

Mended a glove

Darning to keep the hole from developing

Scarf slide, loom knit ribbon yarn

Look what I found at the craft resale shop!

Tri-Tatters got recognized for our demonstrations at Mordecai, etc

Dorset button (linen thread)

Look Ma! A blue ribbon!

Another blue ribbon!

The missing card was later found

 

My timing is now off

 I went to the fair yesterday. I saw my ribbons in person.

And I saw what beat my entries. Funny thing, I know both the people who made the entries who beat my framed tatting entry and at least I lost to worthy competition (not like the baby booties I entered a few years ago). 

I also found the hankie I meant to finish and enter this year. Guess I can now finish it and enter it next year. 

Spent some time talking to folks in the Village of Yesteryear, as usual. I don't get out to talk much while I'm working.