Grizzly Mountain Arts: Lil Rascal Handy Winder Tatting Shuttle

Oh, nice. Very, very nice…. Grizzly Mountain Arts: Lil Rascal Handy Winder Tatting Shuttle

Tit for Tat

I elected to try the Field of Daisies tatting last night. I would up my shuttle, created my first ring, and realised I didn’t know how to join the next part on. The pattern says to do the join, where to do the join, but not how to do the join. And then I noticed …

Bright elusive

  This was very fiddly to do.It’s a bit wonky, but I think you might be able to guess what it is meant to be. I’m thinking that maybe silk is for the advanced class. it’s pretty, though, is it not? I must not waste too much of it – I have plans for this …

Another little fishie

This time in my Hipknits silk laceweight. In some ways the silk is easier to work, in others it is more difficult. It is certainly easier to unpick mistakes in 🙂 You may be able to spot some mistakes that I did not bother to unpick… Cute little fella, ain’t he? Yes. I’m chuffed. And …

Thou Shall…

Adventures in Tatting, Part 1. Last night I made forward progress on the tatting. Some mysteries are easier solved with the help of experienced hands… From the top: Some chain practice More chain practice, using one coloured thread (this helped a lot) with the white shuttle thread A complete ring – with inadvertent picot Lots …

Adventures in tatting

Do thread adventures belong here, alongside the yarn? I think that they must, for where else could I put them? I have been building a resources page for tatting on the craft club’s wiki. (It’s open for all to view at the moment, if there is any interest.) It’s a work in progress that I …