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Heather of Tatted Treasures is sharing her original pattern for this beautiful Celtic tatted motif. Go to her post for the instructions.…

Check these recent tutes from Tatted Treasures:

Finishing a Tatted Motif with a Folded Join
How to Hide Ends with the Magic Thread Trick
Taking out Stitches
Avoiding the Folded Join…

Marilee Rockley of Yarnplayer’s Tatting created this gorgeous ginkgo leaf pattern. It has both plain and beaded variations. She says,

I consider it an advanced level pattern, mostly because of the folded rings and the Catherine Wheel joins. But, actually a folded ring isn’t really that hard. I think if you can already tat a ring, you’ll be able to

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Heather of Tatted Treasures is giving away a copy of Nancy Tracy’s book, Tat’s Where I Stopped: A Year of Tatted Bookmarks, which contains patterns for bookmarks for every season. Go to her blog post to see the entry rules. Be sure to enter before
October 31.…

Inspired by handmade jewelry created by one of her church’s congregation, Sally of Tat’s Heaven revamped some tatted and beaded earrings into pendants. Brilliant! Find out more from her blog post.…

Suztats incorporates tatted embellishments into crazy quilting in ways I’ve never seen before. Enjoy her photo essay.…

Heather of Tatted Treasures shares her pattern for a sweet hairclip with tatted trim. If you’re a beginning tatter, this may be the perfect project for you! Go to the blog post for details.…

Yarnplayer shares her pattern for these lovely tatted earrings. Go to her blog post for the link to the PDF file.…

Enjoy these tatting tutes from Tatted Treasures:

Keeping Tension After a Reverse
Reading Patterns and Making Projects, Part 2…

Check out these recent tutorials from Tatted Treasures:

Which is the right side?
Reverse and turn work. An exploration.
A crocheter’s hand position…

Recent tutorials from Tatted Treasures:

Too Scared for Two Shuttles?
On Buying Older Thread

And while you’re there, be sure to enter the drawing for a gorgeous white oak shuttle handmade by David Reed Smith. Go to the blog post to enter before September 30.

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Check out several new gems from Tatted Treasures:

(1) Is Your Shuttle Poking You?
(2) Putting Picots in their Place
(3) Starting with Two Threads and Hiding Ends Under Picots…

 

Jon of Tat-a-Renda is having an excellent giveaway for her registered blog readers: two winners will receive one of the tatting stashes shown above. Go to her blog post to enter before September 20.…

Heather of Tatted Treasures needs your help. She’s been building a comprehensive series of tutorials for beginning tatters. In a recent post, she said,

Here’s a question for experienced tatters: What does a beginning tatter need to learn to be successful? For beginning tatters: what do you struggle with, and what do you want to learn?

Go to her blog …

Jane Eborall is sharing her pattern for this tatted and beaded dragonfly. Go to her blog post for the link to the tute.…

TotusMel of Needle Tatting and Other Nonsense is sharing her technique for making this simple tatted moustache necklace. Too cute! See the tute at her Instructables post.…

Our beloved Jon Yusoff, who lives in Malaysia, explains the names she gave to the tatted snowflakes in her book Elegant Tatting Gems. The names are almost as lovely as the designs. See Jon’s Tat-a-Renda blog post.…

From Tatted Treasures:

(1) How to join a picot
(2) Reading patterns and making projects, part 1…

(1) The Dreaded Double Stitch (video) from Tatted Treasures
(2) How to Tat a Ring (video) from Tatted Treasures
(3) How to Make Picots (video) from Tatted Treasures
(4) Tatting Vocabulary Primer from Tatted Treasures
(5) Simple Celtic Knot Bookmark from Tattyhead…

TotusMel of Needle Tatting and Other Nonsense has posted a tutorial for needle tatted chainmaille over on Instructables. This large-scale project, which uses sock yarn rather than thread, is a great way to teach yourself needle tatting. And when you’re finished, you’ll have a beautiful scarf to add to your fall wardrobe. Go to the tute.…

In gratitude for the response to her Absolute Beginner Tatting Series of tutorials, Heather of Tatted Treasures is having her first giveaway. It includes

• Two Clover brand plastic tatting shuttles. Choose from either pink and blue, or yellow and green
• Two balls of DMC Cebelia size 20 threads, in lavender and light pink
• One Boye size 13 crochet hook
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The lessons in tatting basics continue on Heather‘s Tatted Treasures blog:

The dreaded double stitch
Here’s to the lefties
Your tatting toolkit

 

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Tatting maven Jane Eborall has come up with a double continuous thread join that produces beautiful results with minimal sewing. Check out her tute.…

If you’d like to try your hand at tatting but you don’t have a clue how to start, you’re in luck! Heather of Tatted Treasures has started a new series of tutorials for absolute beginners. Go to the first lesson. And be sure to bookmark her blog so you can follow the whole series.…

Check out Lace News: Breaking News for the International Handmade Lace Community. You’ll find alerts about worthy eBay listings, notices about events and competitions, articles about lacemaking, and more. One recent article links to Lace News’ playlist on YouTube, which includes 400 tatting videos by luminaries such as our beloved Tatting Goddess. Be sure to add Lace News …

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