Exotic arrangement

Just look at this gorgeous arrangement that Maria Johanna Tjia has made using my book Exotic Range of Tatted Flowers!

Well done, Maria!

If any other tatters have done my patterns we would all love to see pictures of them!

Mary Konior Pattern Book

Yippee!!!! I was the winning bidder for this fabulous Mary Konior book from Ebay!

Although I rarely use other designers' patterns I simply could not resist another book from this treasured designer!

Browsing through has already given me ideas that I want to put into practice.

Change of internet

I changed my internet provider to get a better deal......oh boy! what a performance!!!!!
BT Internet should have been a doddle, but when I could not get my broadband up and running and many, many calls later, they sent out an engineer this morning. You'll never guess what the problem was! In the local exchange the original engineer had wired my broadband line to ITSELF! Durrr!!!

Video demo uploaded

I was asked to demonstrate tatting the outer edging of my Coronet Doily as it was a little complicated and here is the end result.

Motif and Coronet Edging

I have been asked to video myself working the outer edging on my Coronet Doily and so, of course, I had to make another one to achieve this. I used Lizbeth thread, size 40 in 120 colourway, but this thread was a real nightmare with the amount of twist in it!!! No matter how carefully I wound my shuttles, or let them dangle, there was always too much twist.....I had to be really careful how I closed my rings!
The software with my new computer is soooo different from my last one that it is going to take me sometime to work out how to edit my video. For YouTube it can only be 10 minutes or less and at the moment my clip is 30!

This is a little motif that I doodled with a couple of nights ago. I just wanted to tat something while I was watching television and this is what I came up with.
I used split rings, split chains and thrown off rings to achieve the look.
The thread is Altin Basak 50, although it tats up more like a 20 size!

Bandwidth exceeded again!

With uploading my lastest book, and it being so popular, I have exceeded my bandwidth on my web site.
Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience for anyone wanting to purchase any of my books. The web site will be back on line on 1st March 2011.
This only happens when I actually upload a new book.......and this latest book is quite a big file!

Hexagon doily

I played around with the square motif I did last year using mock rings and made it into a 6-sided hexagon shape.

It is a very basic pattern that I am sure many other tatters have come up with.

I simply joined each motif so that the whole shape was a hexagon and then finished it off with a border.

Tatted Tiaras and Bridal Pieces

The new book "Tatted Tiaras and Bridal Pieces" is now available and uploaded onto my web site, Here is the direct link to the appropriate page.

I decided to get a move on with this publication so that fellow tatters had plenty of time for tatting for spring brides and weddings.

The pictures show just a few of the 24 pages.

I hope you all enjoy having a go!

New book nearly done!

This bridesmaid's headdress completes my new book. All I have to do now is to check through it for mistakes and to add an abreviations/instructions page.

Yippee!!!!!

What on earth am I going to do now? Any ideas? Mind you, the last time I asked that question I was landed with designing this latest book! LOL

Finished arrangements

This is just to show how different the same motifs can look, simply by assembling them in different ways!

Designing all done!

Here are a few more motifs that I have done for the new book.





I have done enough patterns now and my next job is to show how I assemble the motifs into arrangements.

Here are a couple of motifs that I am going to use in my new book "Tiaras and Headdresses".

My idea is to show that the same motifs can be put together in different ways to achieve a different look.
In these pictures, the motifs are simply placed together for the camera. I will eventually wire them and then tape them together, probably with some little fill-in daisies as well.

Headdress motifs

Here are a few motifs I have come up with for the latest book of patterns. I shall show how to assemble them into both a hair slide and a corsage, showing that the same motif can be used in more ways than one.

Tatting time again

At last I can get back to my tatting. Boy have I missed it.....but I suppose that it will be all the more pleasurable after the break.

Now, do I continue with the tatting tiaras or have a go at Jane's TIAS (tat if and see)? Hmmmm, I'm spoilt for choice!

Still knitting!

Just to let everyone know that I am still alive and kicking and still knitting!

I have now finished my second aran cardigan and at last I have started an aran jumper for myself. I was hoping to have it finished in time for Christmas, but unfortunately, life got in the way LOL, like appointments of one kind and another and decorating two Christmas cakes!

When I have finished with the knitting I will get back to tatted tiaras and headdresses etc..