St Patrick’s Day was the regularly scheduled monthly meeting of the Palmetto Tatters. Many thanks to all the Palmetto Tatters who welcomed me as a new member with such open arms!  The website   www.palmettotatters.org   indicated that the pattern of choice that day would be one written by Nina Libin who had been a […]

Tags: Beading, Benile Lace
Filed under: 2012, March

There are a number of reasons to undertake any given project.  Spring seems almost upon us – hard to say given that I was out in snow this morning, but early spring snows can come anywhere.  March 17th is St Patrick’s day and green shamrocks rule the day.  That day is a regular monthly meeting […]

Tags: projects, Shamrock, tatting
Filed under: 2012, March, Patterns

The Mountains of Appalachia have always been inhabited by hearty stock.  Out in the woods today, members of the Swannanoa Valley Museum were locating and documenting old home sites around the valley area.  Many of these homes were quite remote, even by today;’s standards.  We were struck with the fact that the people who had […]

Tags: Anne Orr, historic event, tatting
Filed under: 2012, March

Happy to report that the chatelaine is finished!  I am using it on shamrocks for St Patrick’s day trip to Palmetto Tatter’s guild in SC! Choosing shuttles without hooks at least gives me an excuse to use it! The pattern came from Georgia Seitz’s website which contains the Denise’s Bracelet pattern .  It’s a simple rings-only […]

Tags: Bracelet, Chatelaine, Completed projects, projects
Filed under: 2012, General Posts, March, Patterns