June 2, 2014

May 31, 2014

Renulek's Spring Doily.

I haven't been tatting almost anything in the last months, but designing, coding, studying, then realized that it seems that these days every tatter in the tatting groups I belong to, are talking about or tatting Renulek's Doily.

My tatting friend also tatted it. I had to asked myself what that doily had to be so special.

Well, It's an impressive doily indeed. So, if I would like tatting it, what would I need? Pictures don't show the real size of the doily

May 30, 2014

Nellie Youngburg's motif 37 in TatHelper

Nellie Youngburg wrote a wonderful book of tatting with many tatted motifs, but she did something else, she combined those motifs to create different works.

The edgings 3 and 14 were reused to create a Camisole York.

The camisole is made with 18 motifs, each one with 8 onion rings.

May 14, 2014

My perfect Onion Ring

This is not about computer's application for tatting lace. It's a development about tatting onion rings.

Onion Ring is a complex shape made of one ring surrounded by a bigger ring, using one thread for both rings. In the old books I've read, onion rings didn't join outer ring to a inner ring's picot. Perhaps this has been a modern modification trying to keep the rings in the intended position.
 
Well, onion rings have been a headache. I'd never tatted a nice, flat, well looking onion ring.

When Georgia asked us to make samples from Nellie Youngburg's book I chose to tat pattern #37 and didn't realized it had many, many onion rings!!!

After some tries I finally developed a method to make the perfect onion ring for me.

March 25, 2014

Evaluating feedback

After evaluating the feedback received from the users, numbers clearly said close it and shutdown. I'm doing so.
I've enjoyed developing it and will keep working on it for myself, finishing the graphing module, love math and tatting and both go together.

February 24, 2014

TatHelper Updated


TatHelper updated. Added some improvements in SetUp modules to recover data from backups, detect new executable version. Added uncommon joins to configuration file. To download the new release

February 18, 2014

Mrs Platt's patterns

I love Mrs Platt's work. Unfortunatly I just know two patterns of her: Child Bonnet and Booties.

I have tatted the original patterns several times, then I versioned them till I had another work, like my rice grains booties.

January 30, 2014

Corina MeyFeldt's Snowflake in TatHelper


Corina Meyfeldt is a tatter from Rumania. Blog: http://cmhandmade.blogspot.com.ar/ On her blog Corina posted this snowflake pattern which uses bugle beads. Beaded tatting is fun and colorful but using bugle beads does require some planning ahead.
http://www.georgiaseitz.com/2014/corinambugleflake.pdf

Anne Bruvold's Netty the Newt

A tatHelper's pattern Sample

Anne Bruvold http://nuperelle.net/EngIntro.htm is an amazing tatting designer that has shared many patterns with tatters all around the world. Under her authorization I publish here one of her designs using TatHelper grammar and the results obtained for it.