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PTG TAT DAYS 2024
"ABCs of Tatting" - All about Being Creative
Ridgecrest Conference Center
Ridgecrest, NC
August 22 - 25, 2024

Link here for Classes and Descriptions.

Link here for teachers.

Link here for 2024 schedule

Lace Samples

 

Before I begin tatting a piece -- I pick up a shuttle and tat a small piece

 ... a small flower, butterfly, etc.   These small lace samples are turned in to Lafayette Lacemakers.  They are attached to cards and used during public lace demonstrations.   

Do you warm up your hands with a small tatted piece -- then

move along to your project?

 So easy - memorized!

More in Link HERE.

 

Swirl Join + Spiral Flower Center tatting

Do you block your tatting?

  

Blocking the Swirl Join piece.  Lizbeth Size 20, Color 186.

Now that it is pinned - I see that I should have used smaller picots in 5 rings 

and the longer picot in the 6th ring.   It does add a lot of interest to the piece.

 AND the Spiral flower Center.  Maybe I did okay with it - maybe not.   It is very unique.    Lizbeth Fiber, size 20.    Colors 684,696,691.   Not quite the spiral in the center - I'll give it another 'go' next time I have a large center to fill.

These pieces were from the 3rd session --

Workshop with Kelli Slack via virtual education, Lace Museum.

c. Kelli Slack ~ Kelli Slack Designs ~ www.kellislackdesigns.com

 

Session Three: Chains, Rings, and Joins

My card is filled in.   Finished the Third Session.

Scheduled were the folded join, reverse join (which I could never get to happen until yesterday), catherine wheel join aka Dora Young join.  Which filled up the rest of my card.

And, I must say, the card has been helpful.   I have little bits of tatting here-n-there and cannot recall what they were, or when they were done, or why I saved them.   Sewing the class tatting bits to a card is quite useful ; )

In addition to the awesome instructions, and the 'how-to' duing the session, Kelli talked about shuttle post before closing rings -- or maybe she said "post shuttle before closing ring" - which I have not been consistent about, opening a closed ring (when & how), putting shuttle thru the work, folding work, swirl join - picot center, spiral flower center, & general fiber chat. 

 I gave the swirl join / (center) picot a try.   I made up a tatting pattern of rings and chains and the final picot went thru all of the center picots of the ring.  Quite interesting to attempt.

I have not tried the spiral flower center - did get a piece of rings and chains tatted and will give that a try.   

 Size 20 - easy rings and chains.  The center will be a brown fiber (I think).   Should be fun to try.

Workshop with Kelli Slack via virtual education, Lace Museum.

It is so nice to have the sessions recorded and available a couple weeks after the class.

Kelli Slack ~ Kelli Slack Designs ~ www.kellislackdesigns.com c.2022

Link Here.

 

Oh My Stars!!!

I feel like a little kid in a candy store.   One of my

good friends, gifted me a bag of fibers --

Oh my Stars.   Tatting fiber, vintage crochet fiber,

perle coton (5 & 3), embroidery floss,

Cebelia, several cardboard rolls of crochet cottons (probably 10s & 20s),

Cord/Rope - sewing thread, and mystery fibers/yarns.

Some with labels, most without.

I'm re winding some of the coton perle, most are one strand.

Couple have long strands - knot, long strand.

I used some vintage crochet fiber

for the recent needle lace projects (leaf).

I'm thinking the vintage should be ok for needle lace.

 

Chains, Rings + Joins: Part of the Third Session ....

Part of the 3rd session:  Up + Down Join, Loop Up shuttle up/shuttle down, Loop Down shuttle up/shuttle down (yes - quite the combination), Double Up join + Double Down join, Alligator Join.  Still to come - Reverse join, Folded Join, Catherine Join.   

Workshop with Kelli Slack via virtual education, Lace Museum.

It is so nice to have the sessions recorded and available a couple weeks after the class.

Kelli Slack ~ Kelli Slack Designs ~ www.kellislackdesigns.com c.2022

Link Here.

 

Chains, Rings + Joins: Second Session

Second Session:   Josephine ring (knot), Dimpled ring, 

onion ring (2 different ways), hiding tatted ends - adding fiber - encapsulation, Floating rings, Self-closing mock ring (SCMR), adding bead to SCMR, Split rings.

I really enjoy the classes/sessions with Kelli.  She has wonderful instruction booklets, seems so organized and knowledgeable of the topics she is teaching.

While much practice needed on my end - she has a nice way of demonstrating

the 'how to' and explains the 'why' - with original patterns to try.

She has another session (virtual education) in June

tatting a sunflower with a very unique 

center -- Yeah, of course I've already signed up!!!

Workshop with Kelli Slack via virtual education, Lace Museum.

Kelli Slack ~ Kelli Slack Designs ~ www.kellislackdesigns.com c.2022

Link Here.

 My supervisors.   I'm always interested in when they come into the room (while I'm on / in zoom session).   They seem to prefer listening to people on the zoom videos.   This session, they were pretty quiet.

 Callie gets really chatty when she brings toys into the room.   

 

Chains, Rings + Joins. First Session

My samples card is filling in.

Added Coil chain, Pointed chain, Split chain.

[so much practice needed] - on to session two video.

Workshop with Kelli Slack via virtual education, Lace Museum.

Kelli Slack ~ Kelli Slack Designs ~ www.kellislackdesigns.com c.2022

Link Here.

 

Shamrocks and Bunnies to tat ....

 

This is one of Gina's (a.k.a. The Tatting Goddess) Tatting Patterns.

She posted about the shamrocks, HERE.

Many of her patterns are now located on Jane Eborall's web page.

New Link(s) to:

 Gina's Patterns. Link HERE.

Another favourite of mine:

Irish for A Day, pattern by Sharren

blogging at Sharren's Random Stitches

I used Lizbeth, Scottish Thisle,

Size 20, Color number 175.

Pattern:   http://tattingwithsharren.blogspot.com/2011/03/of-plans-and-internet-connections.html

LINK

c. Gina Brummett 2003

It looks like Gina's 

Bunnies in a Row pattern is 

also on Jane Eborall's pattern page.

OR - her blog page:

https://threadsofatattinggoddess.blogspot.com/search?q=bunny

Bunnies In A Row, LINK HERE.

Lace Challenge

I.O.L.I. Lace-Challenge-9

From IOLI:

 " Challenge 9 for IOLI members is to participate in Maggie Hensel-Brown’s Community Lacemaking Project.  If you have never made needle lace, this is an opportunity to learn by making a small leaf.  If you have made needle lace before, this is an opportunity to demonstrate your skill.  A page of leaf patterns, 38 pages of instructions and two video lessons are provided.  The website is https://www.maggiehenselbrown.com/community-lacemaking

To see the leaves that have already been made and are on their way to Maggie, visit  https://lacechallenge.internationalorganizationoflace.org/lace-challenge/lace-challenge-9  

Chains, Rings + Joins. Part of the First Session

 Yes, another workshop with Kelli Slack via the Lae Museum.

Here is a start .... of the fiber samples.    

Lock Join, Spiral/Josephine, Zig Zag, 2-way Scallops, Balanced Double Stitch.

Kelli Slack ~ Kelli Slack Designs ~ www.kellislackdesigns.com c.2022

Link Here.

 

Mail from Twisted Picot!!

I watched the video (above).

Ordered the book---this is a reprint of Tomoko Morimoto

book - which I didn't have.   Video-flip thru the pages.

Wow - a beautiful book loaded

with projects!

Gentle Tatting by Tomoko Morimoto.

A Twisted Picot

 

Tat Day in Indiana

July 11-13, 2024

Seventh Annual

Tatting Corner Tat Days

Chesterfield, Indiana USA

Details can be found on their web site - Link Here. 

Facebook post from IOLI:

 Event in the USA:

International Organization of Lace, Inc.

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FREE and open to ANYONE AND EVERYONE! Bring your family! Bring your friends! Spend a couple of hours viewing the AMAZING works of art our teachers produce!! Visit our Vendor Hall…oh, so MANY goodies!!! Visit our Display room where lacers display their work.

Are you a “crafty” person? Maybe you’re not but want to see something different AND FREE!

Come one. Come all! You’re invited to the 71st annual International Organization of Lace, Inc. (I.O.L.I.) Public Day. Hosted by I.O.L.I. and the Music City Lacers. Entry is free.

Imagine: Enter into a kaleidoscope-fantasy entryway with July 4th balloons EVERYWHERE. Smell the popcorn, hear the music. Then as you walk along the aisle, view the Bobbin Lace, Tatting, Knitting, and SO MUCH MORE. Teachers (20+ teachers from so many different lace disciplines) displaying their designed and worked art pieces.

Proceed into the vendor room where there is something for everyone; books, tools, finished items for sale, mementoes, jewelry…oh, so much more!!! Then, when you can tear yourself away from all the goodness, proceed out the door down to where you can partake of a bag of popcorn and a glass of lemonade. REMEMBER: only the first 50 get the free popcorn and lemonade.

Maybe then, you follow the signs to the display room where people have set up displays for their art. Spend some time here and marvel at the talent, the colors; the DIVERSITY of lace.

Come early!! Stay Late!!! We hope to see you there.

Events to see: The Teacher Showcase, the Vendor Hall, and the Display Room. So much to see. So little time to see it in!!

WHEN: July 5th, 2024, 6p.m. to 9p.m.

WHERE: Franklin Marriott Cool Springs Hotel

700 Cool Springs Blvd

Franklin, TN

(615)261-6100

Session Three: Do You Know Your Picots?

I used Lizbeth, Size 20.

Colors 649 + 696.

Lotus Rings, Overlap.

 

These are Lotus:   Overlap, Layer, Underlap [+overlap alt colors].

 

These are on card stock.  The variety of new things I learned!

 These are the WRONG way to make Venetian Picots - -

Instructor Kelli Slack

thru the Lace Museum

virtual education.

Kelli Slack Designs ~ www.kellislackdesigns.com

c. 2022

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