Tatted Christmas Tree

We had a nice relaxing, do nothing, Thanksgiving weekend. I didn’t just do nothing. I worked on finishing the lace for a card exchange. Then I had some more tat time so I did a bit of an experiment with pearl tatting that has been on my mind for a while. I made the pearl tatting zigzag with connecting picots to create a neat braid. It could make a nice hanky edging.

Then after making about an inch of that I decided to turn the corner. An inch you say????? Yes, I am tatting in Coron Cotton size 160 which is what I was working with for the lace card exchange. Will show you what I did after I get the card made and mailed off and know that the recipient has it in her hands. The corner worked out well. Since I have been in the Christmas tat mood, I got the idea that it looked like a Christmas tree. So I continued for an equal length and proceeded to fill in the center and after 3 rows of the braid and a makeshift trunk, I have my tree!

It is a tiny tree using 160 thread. Measures 4cm(1.5 inches) tall. It would make a nice pin or turn it upside down as a pendent on a necklace. The 3 rows of pearl tatted braid makes a nice beading. So I may weave a ribbon and tie a bow at the top. I always design with just thread and then make improvements with beads/ribbons/colored threads later on.

Turkey with an Attitude

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Make a Smilebox greeting

Hope you have a safe and happy holiday!!!

Where has Tatman gone???

I am here….cough..sputter…hack! It has been almost a month since my last post!

I have been sick with sinus infection/cold/whatever. But I have been working on lots of things and kept quiet for a bit. Been so busy I haven’t had time to post anything. Well….now I do!
There has been a lot of chatter on the tatting lists about awareness ribbon patterns. And seems there are only a few online patterns. So I thought I would give my own version for you. What came about with this pattern was that our HS football team made it to the final 4. Sick as we both were(Kim has it too) we weren’t going to miss this historical HS event! We arrived 1.5 hours early to get good seats. Of course I can’t just sit there doing nothing, except chat with our friends. Gotta keep those hands busy. So I picked our school colors(blue, silver and white) and came up with this ribbon pattern featuring the (HRB)half ring braid. Simple one shuttle work. And you can weave in a thick contrasting color after it is finished.

I started and finished it a couple of minutes before the national anthem was sung. It was an intense and exciting game! Unfortunately we lost by one goal(score: 46 us to 58 them) So we don’t get to go to state champions. But we all had good sportsmanship.

Here is a picture of the pink breast cancer awareness ribbon

You can find the pattern on the side bar of this blog under my tatting patterns section. Later on I will announce when my free patterns section on my website is available. Will be the same list that is on this side bar.

Enjoy!!!

Tatted Autumn Pumpkin Pattern

I worked on the pumpkin diagram and pattern over the weekend. So it is now available for everyone to download. Click HERE to get the pattern.

ENJOY!!

Tatted Pumpkin Design

After we had passed all the candy out to the ghoulie kids, I desided to work on a design that was Halloween-ish for the rest of the evening. Doesn’t have to be for Halloween. Works for any Autumn season. I finished it at the bewitching hour of past midnight while watching classic movies like “It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown”, “Boo, To You Too, Winnie The Pooh”, 1944 Spencer Tracy movie of “Dr. Jekyle and Mr. Hyde” and “The Witches” with Angelica Houston to name a few. The thread I used was Majestic(about a size 80 and felt like rope after tatting with 160 Coron Cotton). It is a single shuttle design. It features half ring braid on the outside part of the pumpkin. The fillings are single shuttle flowers, stems and leaves. I will try to have a pattern made up sometime soon. I would like to make a tall pumpkin design to accompany it.

Below are pictures I took of this years Halloween decorations. Pretty much the same as last year except we had these decorative ceramic pumpkins with blue or amber flicker lights that were used at my niece’s wedding. Extra blue flicker lights went into the lanterns lining the walkway. It made a nice glow to welcome the ghoulie kidlets dying for a treat.