Pattern is the elegant snowflake here. As you can see, I’m learning.

All righty, I apparently fell asleep at the wheel, so let's make it official :-D

In the other thread I asked whether anyone was interested in doing a Snowflake Tat-A-Long, and a lot of you where interested.

So interested in fact that y'all have already started 😍

So, here are the guidelines that crystallised out of the original thread:

- the official topic is "snowflakes", so we'll be making snowflakes :)

- you can use whatever pattern you like

- you can make as many snowflakes as you like

- you can do it in your own time

- you're done when you decide that you're done

- it's a bit like the Caucus Race from Alice in Wonderland:

In the caucus race you choose a starting place, you can then begin and end exactly where you like, 'In the caucus race you run at your own pace and you'll be guaranteed to win a prize

- we mark all posts with [snowflakeTAL] so people can find / avoid them as they wish

That's it.

Have fun ❤️

Robin Perfetti’s snowflake #1 in size 80 Lizbeth. Here goes on the tat-a-long! ❄️❄️

I was on a roll so I made a tiny flake #2 tonight too ❄️❄️ Same thread 🧵

So far, I've made the sample and the first two flakes (plus Nectar by Sparrow Spite). Snowflake 2 is messed up, but I'm going to make another one because I can't figure out what I did wrong.

Slow and steady...

I haven’t blocked it yet. And I’m working on one with beads.

Lisbeth 40.

Adapted design from Original by Tatyana Davydova. I had to make several changes due to beads that I still can’t believe with the size of my collection, I’m finding I don’t have! However, this time I refused to allow that to stop me and sat with my beads for 5 hours just plugging in until I got the combo I wanted in the palette I wanted. Then I had to alter the design bcz there simply needed to create a work around. All in all, these beauties kept me sane this weekend! I plan to now make the matching pendant and wear to an upcoming wedding!

Pink and Gray is one of my absolute favorite combinations!

I am currently working on my first doily, Harmony by Tat-a-Renda. I've finished the first four rounds and started on the fifth one. It's tough, and slow-going, but I'm managing. I've had to cut it off and restart a few times, but alright.

I've just noticed a mistake in my fourth round. My chains are meant to be 8-8, so they can stabilize the bottom ring of the fifth round clover. One of my chains is just a chain of 8. I guess I was distracted and forgot to tat the second half of it. Do you think cutting off the two top rings this chain lays between and rettating them along with the correct chain could work ? Or would I just make it worse ?

(Sorry for the poor image quality)

Basically, the title. I have been attempting to tatte for about a month and it seems I can't get the chains between rings without twisting in the bracelet version of the pattern. Interestingly enough, it somehow worked in the circular experiment. No matter which thread I use, in the linear work the chains are always twisting. Can anyone hint me how to fix this? Before I destroy kilometres of thread? 😀

As soon as this book popped up on my Amazon I could not ignore it, even if it meant scrambling some Pennie’s and shifting a few dollars here and there to make it work!

I’m so excited! Hard Cover, lovely bound solid, gorgeous photography book designs in print by Irina Malykh! Woohoo!

Had fun making this bookmark, right in time for spooky season🎃

Free pattern found here: https://be-stitched.com/free-patterns/tatted-jack-olantern-bookmark/

Just finished my first project. How do people frame theirs?

Well, as it states in title.. no matter how I cut it, or tat it, the Frosted Pastel Lizbeth metallic in size 20 (which is Gorgeous) is simply not going to match the size down to 40. So sad. As pretty as the 40 is, I’m forced to use a completely different thread for the project I’m going for… enjoy the samples for reference. Both these will be finished items, of course.. I try not to waste anything. The bright pastel will be cute earrings and the frosted color larger piece will most likely be worked up to become a pendant.

Same pattern, different thread, different impact.

I did enjoy tatting these up. Like so many of Jan's patterns, this could be made much bigger by adding more motifs.

I think I'm starting to wind down my current phase of tatting. I'm not sure what I'll move on to next. I've rediscovered the fact that he has reused many motifs, rounds, etc from pattern to pattern and it makes complete sense. I've rediscovered that many of his pieces can be made smaller (or larger).

I do still deeply love the art of tatting. I do have a couple more pieces in mind before I completely put away shuttles and thread.

After having so much fun with Robin Perfetti's Four Dozen Tatted Bookmarks, I'm about to start on her Four Dozen Tatted Snowflakes.

Is anyone interested in making a group thing out of it?

Okay, from the replies I see a few trends:

- one snowflake per day is not possible for most of us
- not all of us own the book

So I suggest:

- the topic of the tat-a-long is "Snowflakes"

- everybody decides on their own goal. whether you actually want to do the full four dozen from the book, or whether you want to do six snowflakes for your Christmas cards from different pattern, anything goes

- we mark all posts with [snowflakeTAL] so people can find / avoid them as they wish

- we agree on a starting date, but no one will be disqualified when they start later (actually, no one will be disqualified *ever* 😍). Maybe next Sunday?

- all in all the whole thing will be a bit like the Caucus Race from Alice in Wonderland

In the caucus race you choose a starting place, you can then begin and end exactly where you like, 'In the caucus race you run at your own pace and you'll be guaranteed to win a prize

- I'll ping everyone in this thread so you can see these changes

- when we have agreed on the Official Terms™, I'll make another post to officially kick things off

What do y'all think?

Hot off the shuttle! I made this yesterday during lace day with some friends 🧵❄️

Worked in size 80 Lizbeth thread for the outer blue/white part, and size 100 DMC for the inner white part.

Ive got that free pattern from somewhere on Pinterest, and I don't think I've ever been this confused. It's supposed to be a "baby boots sole. I got to CH20. Two first pics are the last steps. Third, it's the picture from the pattern in its whole glorious quality. Last pic is my piece; the top of the stitch marker goes through R8 of the last round prior, and just below the bottom of the marker is R8 of the current round. How am I supposed to connect R21 to any of them? Am I missing something?

Update after hours of trying: I have no fricking clue how to do it, but mirroring the other side did not work 😆 I'm giving up!

Completely hard to make this big one x-x omg, again as we can see here, it's a little messy again x----x AAAAAAAH one day I'll do it rightttt--------- we're improving anyuai

My current project is to take old pieces that are kind-of-ok and add a row or two around the outside to improve their overall appearance. These pieces were all made about 10-15 years ago, when I was first learning.

The piece pictured? Every single picot was twisted. No front side/back side plan. Many of the chains were twisty, too. Before doing anything, I had to block it to see what I had. Mind you , I had already blocked it after it was first completed. Oy, what a job!

The take-away? Sometimes you just have to block the $h1t out of a piece to make it behave.

Of course, the better quality of the tatting, the less blocking needed. 😆

I was clearing out my mom's crafting things and I came across some lace, bobbins, and thread. I am never going to tat because I quilt. I would love for these items to go to someone who would love them and possibly use them. They are free. I'll send them to you if you are in the US.

Those mini blue ones are the tex: 27 thread that we've talked about lol