We have just passed Hallowe’en. That means it’s time to prepare for Christmas! Again this year, The Monte Vista is hosting “Deck the Trees” as a benefit for our local food bank. We have had an entry in this event. Finally we have accumulated a sufficient number of tatted snowflakes, bead icicles and garland to […]
Tags: Christmas, deck the tree, lessons, Ornament Cover
Filed under: 2014, February, General Posts
For a number of years now I have been scrupulously avoiding using the Split Chain Technique. I have watched YouTube videos on it, read the written version of how to carry it out and just about everything I could on the subject. Nearly every time attempted was a failure. But at Shuttlebirds Tatting conference, Jean […]
Tags: Conference, Jean Reeves, lessons, Shuttlebirds, tatting
Filed under: 2014, April, Conferences
We had a very productive lesson 3 class! Learning to add beads to our work was the theme and we added beads to rings 3 different ways. Unfortunately we ran out of time and didn’t get to the chains portion, but that is addressed in the description of lesson 3 found in the Lessons tab […]
Our second lesson is intended to help us become more familiar with a standard set of tatting terms. Â These will allow us to read and follow patterns more easily & consistently. Â The listing is here . Â You may print this out before our class session and also keep it here for easy reference
Tags: lessons, tatting terms
Filed under: General Posts
The New Year is always a beginning, full of potential and with endless possibilities for success. In 2014, the Thread Bears have elected to look at ways to improve our tatting. So based on 3 things: Sharon Briggs’s 25 Motif Challenge, Wally Sosa’s YouTube video “25 motif challenge,” showing the designs she used to meet such a challenge, […]
Tags: 2014, lessons, patterns, projects
Filed under: 2014, January
Right before the holidays, I took an inventory of some of my tatting projects to date unfinished. These included a bookmark that had as it’s “tail” a length of pearl tatting. I was wanting to learn the technique before we begin having our Friday afternoon Tatting Group. It’s not that I want to avoid learning […]
Tags: Bookmark, lessons, Pearl tatting, Snowflake
Filed under: 2010, December
