This is a piece of my early tatting from the summer when I first learned. So if any beginners out there are having a hard time, believe me, it WILL get better.
One important lesson here: good threads do matter. This mess might have looked better if I had not been working with some sort of cheap bedspread cotton. Even today, I have difficulty making neat, even stitches if I work with poor quality thread. Good thread will both look so much better and be easier to work with too.
Since the time of this post, TatBit has removed her public patterns.
I encourage everyone to visit TatBit's blog. Teri is generously sharing lots of patterns and adding to them daily. Above is the beginning of her New Wave Doily and I plan to make some more of her designs after this one.
The pattern notation may be different than you are used to, but read the instructions and abbreviation list carefully and all should be clear.
Small Doily
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I showed you the small green doily with my tulips a couple of posts ago...
It's doily XIV from Jan Stawasz's red book. I decided to make it again.
Here's ...
A Short Spring
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This is the first 10 rounds of Renulek's wiosna 2018, Spring doily or
Spring napkin. Renulek gives the stitch count for a round every week on her
blog, or...
Ready for Spring
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I'm ready for the temperatures to stabilize so I can plant a vegetable
garden in the back yard. The poor plants have been sitting inside under
grow lights ...
retreading the path
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magic squares, doilies and magic/infinite pathways - common threads VI.
*This post is an exploration to satisfy the researcher in me. There is no
absolute ...
Bunny Invasion!
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I finally had the money to order some shuttles I really wanted. Carollyn
Tenn Brown hand carves beautiful bunny shuttles. I have wanted one since
she s...
Serwetka frywolitkowa "Lilia"
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Moja nowa serwetka "Lilia", wykonana z nici MercerEspecial Limol 40 w
kolorze ciemno-kremowym i białym.
Uwielbiam to zestawienie kolorystyczne - jest bard...
On a roll!!
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Yes, already further progress with the Dora Young pattern (page 22) so I'm
just showing you quickly how far I've got.
I get to this point in a project w...
Frances Doily Completed (LHO4)
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I think this pattern is so very pretty. You can find this pattern by Lee
Hye-oon on page 37 of Lovely Tatting Doilies for Spring and Summer. There
are ma...
focus
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At present, focus IS the word...
I uploaded my "homemade" video, showing the beads covered with tatting,
that is a variation of the method showed in "Les...
High Efficiency - NOT
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After many many years of faithful service it's about time for my old
washing machine to be retired. It washes clothes perfectly in a very short
amount of t...
Why not? / ¿Por qué no?
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Two of my passions - tatting and scuba diving.
Dos de mis pasiones: el frivolité y el submarinismo.
Little Cayman, Cayman Islands
April 9, 2018
Half way through the month!
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Time as usual is going too quickly and I have so much going on in my life
at the moment. One of the things I am preparing for is a Craft Evening for
Adults...
Spring Doily round 5
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Round 5 is completed. I gave it a light press with the steam iron before
tossing it on the scanner. It looks so delicate done in size 20 thread.
Sew So Much
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Starting with 50 yards of hand dyed thread, I started in on doily A-1084.
The goal was to brush up on split chains/rings and climb out from each
row. It...
Knitting and Tatting and Holidays
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Valentine's day did not go smoothly this year. It seems someone stole my
present. CD ordered it, and he showed me a picture, but it was (according
to track...
TIAS Day 5 - Trunk, Paisley or Glow-on-the-Go?
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Day five (5) dawned and I kid you not, my first waking thought was for the
TIAS. Some (not tatters) would say I was going fou-fou-nutzo. But we all
kno...
Heel goed nieuws
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*Hallo Allemaal,*
Ik kreeg van Jane een mail doe je weer mee met de TIAS
Ik riep heel hard JAAAAAAA
hier is haar introductie:
Welkom bij het Tat It And See...
INFORMATION REQUIRED
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You may have noticed that some of the posts for the 25 Motif Challenge are
extremely long. That happens when I get busy with things like vacations and
reno...
Playing Catchup
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I didn't mean to disappear again; it just kinda happened. I finished
tatting a magic square for my mom. I also worked on some crochet for my mom
as well. F...
The Wedding
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2017 has been a rather exciting year so far for me. I got to travel twice,
to Japan (as I had blogged about earlier) and then to Nordic countries
during J...
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I haven't posted awhile but maybe just maybe I will get back to it. Anyhow
I am excited to be a teacher at Palmetto's Tat Days this year. I will be
teachin...
Addictive useful potholder instructions
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These are really, really good pot holders/trivets/coasters and I've been
obsessed by them for months. I've nearly always got one in progress in my
purse...
Shuttlebirds Tatting Workshop 2017 -- part 2
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Just thought I’d post some of the pictures I had taken at The Shuttlebirds
2017 Tatting Workshop.
The first photo (below) shows the materials and space we ...
Ice Drops are Little Wonders!
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Yup they sure are!
This is the second variation by Lace-Lovin' Librarian.
A pretty white snowflake with a clear Turquoise Glass Glob.
My Hand Dyed Threa...
How to empty a shuttle and fall onto a usable piece
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*Emptying my shuttle*
After a bigger project there is always some thread left on the shuttle.
This is how the flowers of the butterflies pile up in our box...
I HEARD that!!!!!
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Almost six months ago I received some shocking news related to my hearing
ability.
The prior post explains everything you need to know to get caught up....
Merry Christmas and Life
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Hi Everyone and a belated Merry Christmas.
I was going to post this yesterday but as usual life got in the way. In the
morning my partner had a bad fall and...
Looking at your design
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How are your designs coming along? Did you have difficulty coming up with a
second round to the little motif? Remember all of those little bits of
edgings ...
On Hiatus
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This is just a quick note to say that the blog will be on hiatus for a bit,
though I won't. My computer has decided to finally bite the dust. I'm
posting t...
New Beginnings..
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Hi all! I know most of you might not remember me.. It's been almost two
years since I've last posted.. Well, things have been both rough and
strange at the...
Ups - et år har vist gått!
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Og ingen blogginnlegg fra meg! Det betyr ikke at jeg ikke har gjort
handarbeid - det har jeg. Jeg har bare ikke blogget om det. Så, for å komme
i gang igje...
I'm back - and I brought shuttles!
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First, there was one ... I had to save up for it, but it gave me time to
decide on the kind of wood I wanted. Randy Houtz directed me to a website
with pi...
Instagram 500 Follower Christmas Giveaway!
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So excited! I have 500 followers on Instagram after being there only a few
short months. To celebrate I'm having a giveaway - on Instagram that is! If
you'...
Fair, Glasses, HDT, and still settling in...
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So, with a title like that, I shouldn't have to say to much, right?
I entered Livi's Doily in the local fair. It won a blue 1st place ribbon!
The doily is ...
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Time to Tat!
A minor miracle here as I’m able to tat for an hour at a time before my
right hand gives out.
I decided to finish the biggest piece I’d begun,...
The Single Stitch According to Riego
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*Tatting* by Mlle. Riego, 1850
In this first English book devoted entirely to tatting, the join as we know
it has not yet been invented, so Mlle Riego ove...
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I took a class today with the wonderful watercolorist Rena Brouwer!
Unfortunately, I didn't do it justice. She gave lots of great tips and
advice - I just ...