A forrest of leaves,

There are repetitive motifs, free and paid pattern of hearts, grapes, flowers, leaves that we can search and download at any moment. Here's mine.

My little dancing girl

Some years ago I designed an edging for the dress of the little girl of a friend. The girl had fallen in love with the spanish flamenco women dancers dresses when she visited Spain with her mom and I wanted to give her something to remember her time here instead of the stuff for turists sold in every corner.

An Onion Ring challenge.

I haven't tatted and written in a while... well, more than a while. Suddenly, in the Online Tatting Classes, Ninetta brought a special pattern from Anne Orr's book 14 that you can find in Georgia Seiz Bella On line column.

Tatted Relations

There are questions that arise when tatters have a pattern that calls for a specific thread size, "What if I use another thread size?", "What is the equivalence of thread size X?", "If I use another thread size should I add or remove DS to get the same dimensions of the work?", ¨How many?"

Is there a direct relation between thread sizes and the tatted work?

That difficult Round 9

That difficult Round 9

This post is for a facebook friend that is having some troubles tatting Renulek's 2015 napkin. Here you have Cathie, I hope it helps to understand how that round flows.

Stunning Silk Dress Edging

Georgia has been bringing old patterns from Europe and USA back to life for many, many years, but have been the tatters from East Europe and Russia that have made them very popular, tatting those old works with new threads and colours, selling them via internet.

The new Renulek's 2015 doilly

Renulek is posting her new doilly for 2015 and naturally many tatters started to tat it. Actually, we don't know the size of the finish doilly, but she uses to do big ones. There are eleven (11) rounds. 

Update: it seems that Round 10 is the last round.
Update: I was wrong, there is an 11th round.

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.