Here’s to the great hope that tatters everywhere are getting in a full day of tatting! Well, it isn’t going to be my fate until after sunset, but the day won’t be over until 11:59:59 tonight! Received the April Newsletter from the Fringe group in Cambridge, ON today. It seems everyone is missing the fellowship […]

Tags: 2021, Fringe Elements, Spring, Tatting Day
Filed under: 2021, April, General Posts, Projects, Threads

Early December is the expected time of the year that Black Mountain hosts their Annual Deck the Trees Event for the benefit of the Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministries Fuel Relief fund. This year the requests for heating assistance is expected to be greater than in years past and because of the Corona Virus Pandemic, the […]

Filed under: 2020, Christmas, December, Deck the Trees, General Posts, Projects, Shuttles, Threads

Tatting has always had it’s challenges. For many of us, the first challenge was accomplishing the FLIP. Once a new tatter “gets” that, things begin to improve greatly. But there are always little technicalities in any avocation that someone experienced in the field or craft does not have to be told. These “directions understood” can […]

Tags: bookmarks, consultations, patterns
Filed under: Bookmarks, May, Patterns, Threads

One of the most popular new patterns taking the tatting world by storm is Diane Cademartori’s “Ice Drop” pattern. The pattern’s popularity took its creator by surprise according to what she said when I spoke with her in 2016. A striking way to surround a simple glass drop bead with tatted rings and chains, decorated […]

Tags: Ice Drops
Filed under: 2019, Conferences, Designing, February, General Posts, Patterns, Threads