A card, practice work and some links
And……… I have been busy! There has been a lot of stuff that I have been tatting but it is all just practice and I think I am not ready to include that in the 25motif Challenge. There is a cute little flower that came out right but what is just one flower. My idea of 25motif challenge is that when I submit something it should really count as a really good tatted piece that I can display. It is just 25 motifs and I have an entire year. A year is a really long time… 365 days to practice and perfect myself in the art of tatting. And I want to use this opportunity to make stuff that I can be really proud of. Here is a pic of the flower that I made. [Clearly, I need a scanner or a high resolution camera for all my photos!!]
Now for the real reason why I am online. I am so excited and just can’t giggling to myself. Guess what I found online?
BOOKS. Books on tatting… I was complaining that I didn’t have enough books or designs to learn to tat and had been searching online for patterns when last night I came across this site. And a little while later, I found the main gallery. There are whole complete books scanned and available on this site. Thank you so very much to Karen, the owner of the gallery, for sharing them. It makes tatting so much easier for me to learn now. Here are the books and some other sites on Tatting.
Classic Tatting Patterns by Anne Orr
Tatting with visual patterns – Mary Konior
Tatting doilies & edgings by Rita Weiss
http://picasaweb.google.com/ratherdoknitting This site has Crochet books and Knitting too along with Tatting. Mostly Vintage stuff.
For those of you wondering how I got to this…err… I typed Tatting in the search box on Picasaweb. 😀
Oh, thank you so much, Ais. That cute little flower brought tears of joy to my eyes…it's so sweet. I'm glad you feel welcome. You are learning so much and it shows in all your motives you are tatting. Thank you for sharing that resource of books that is so cool!
You can also find vintage tatting patterns (and other needlecrafts) at the antique pattern library. They are free downloads.<br>http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/<br><br>:-) Gina
You have been one busy gal! Love to see all that tatting! Keep up the great work!
You are doing great! Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm!
What a wonderful site you have found, Ais!<br>I have several of the books shown but not all of them – very useful.<br>If you like free patterns then visit my blog and on the right side you will see a list of links.<br>Welcome to the wonderful world of tatting!
It is nice blog you have and your tatting look fine too.