Threads of a Tatting Goddess

Today, two co-workers and myself went up north to do some farm inspections. I took some tatting with me to do while riding. I decided to t...

HUMMERS!!! Finally, I got the little bugger done! I almost gave up on the metallic thread because it would break and be nearly imp...

I've been spending Thursday evenings at my sister's house, scrapbooking. She creates superb memory books, while I approach it with ...

My friend Jan, a non-tatter who lives in Washington, sent me her Grandmother Bellknap's shuttle. It even had a bit of old thread on it ...

Here is a bookmark I made a few years ago. I saw it in an exchange or website and was intrigued by the interwoven picots. I finally tr...

And here are photos from The Feast of the Hunter's Moon. There are hundreds of individual tents/locations. We have a prime spot not fa...

Tatting Day with Heirloom Corner Finally, here are the photos from September 6, 2003. For some reason, while I was in NY, the date featu...

I finished another hummer last night but I'm still not happy with it. It's that tail end that I can't figure out exactly how I ...

I thought I messed this up as everything looked way too big at work, but it looks fine at home. I picked up photos from the Tatting Day wit...

I sat down to tat this evening and realized I left my current tatting on top of a file cabinet in my office. So, I decided to try out th...

I bought these two shuttles at The Feast of the Hunter's Moon. The smaller one is brass and the other is a pierced bone shuttle. Same...

Check out Get Crafty. Down near the bottom there is an ad for a crocheted skull. The cool part though, is that you can click on the link ...

So far, I've made 4 hummers and I'm not entirely happy with any of them. Close, almost...............but not quite. I couldn't...

Well, here are the remnants of Tat Day with Heirloom Corner. It was a joint effort, with Kaye Judt, Mary Harris, and Jennifer Titus sh...

The threads are here!!!! This is machine embroidery thread so it is on spools like sewing thread and about the same thickness. It's qu...

Whoo-Hoo! I just ordered some threads from here. What a cool thread to play tat with! They are white but change color with exposure to ...

I have an excuse to tat a hummingbird now. Found 4 patterns!!!! First, I thought I might do Kathy Lowe's hummer. It might be too b...

Somehow, Witt's webpage disappeared, but no matter, she made a new one. I'll bet that book of poetry about the chickens is good to...

I just found a new source for tatting instructions. Not only tatting, but just about any needleart you can think of, including how to make ...

I was looking at the Free Pattern site today since I haven't been there in ages. There are a few new tatting patterns, mostly cro-tat...