Tatteristic!: Tatting Snowflakes for the Holidays

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Tatting Snowflakes for the Holidays

I posted these on my 25 Motif Challenge blog but I also wanted to post pictures here so that everyone can see what I've been working on.

I tatted the first one on vacation and the second one right after we returned because I thoroughly enjoyed the patterns in Lene Bjorn's 24 Snowflakes in Tatting book.

There are 22 more in this book that I want to try and complete between now and the holidays.

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IsDiharaSeptember 1, 2010 at 6:24 PM
Your first two flakes are terrific! It is a fun challenge to tat all of the snowflakes from that wonderful book.
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NinuSeptember 13, 2010 at 5:52 AM
too good..waiting for the next batch.. happy tatting!!
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CarlaSeptember 30, 2010 at 11:30 AM
Beautiful snowflakes!
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Tatting Techniques to Learn and Practice

As part of the 25 Motif Challenge, I decided that I would learn as many new tatting techniques as possible, well, hopefully, at least one per motif.

This section will briefly list the new techniques I've incorporated into my tatting and some of the ongoing things I continue to practice. Here goes...

Split rings (very important and a lot of fun to use in a motif); adding beads; lock joins; switching shuttles, SLT, and the Magic Thread Trick.

Two ways to hide ends and how to add new thread.

I made my very first piece of 'jewelry' which was a pendant for the InTatter's April Pendant Exchange.

Created a rose motif for a crazy quilt block and made my first doily.

Finally figured out how to tat a cluny leaf!

...the list will continue as I progress through the 25 Motif Challenge and the other projects I'll be working on this year.

Thanks to Jane's TIAS in 2011, I learned how to do the Continuous Thread Join to hide a thread along the tops of my tatting as a way of moving both threads to a different spot without having to do it by making a chain.

Frontside/Backside tatting. Who knew such a small thing could make such a big difference? I love the way my tatting looks using frontside/backside tatting.

Stay tuned for more...

Tatteristic!

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Tatting Snowflakes for the Holidays

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