Martha's Tatting Blog

You may recall that my current personal 25 Motif Challenge is to complete motifs from vintage patterns from prior to 1925, so here are som...

Here are two more antique motifs from a different collar in Priscilla No. 2. (See previous post for links to download the book.)  Again...

I'm starting my new Challenge  with 3 motifs from the Priscilla Tatting Book, No. 2  of 1915.  These pieces are actually part of a very ...

This is the Amanda doily from Iris Niebach's book Tatted Doilies .  Iris is a designer I truly admire.  She has such distinctive styl...

Here is another one for the challenge .  This is "5th Day of December" by Lene Bjorn from 24 Snowflakes in Tatting .  It worked...

Here's another one for the Challenge .  This is "Angel with Star" from A Host of Angels  by Christel Weidmann.  Each pattern...

Do you ever have a little tatting voice inside your head? Do you ever have a slump where you don't feel like tatting, or maybe you feel...

A few weeks ago, Umi&Tsuru issued a challenge to tat a design from Ruth Scharf's book, Occhi. Since this is one of those books I h...

I started this blog to participate in the 25 Motif Challenge , but I've really been neglecting my current challenge. Life has been a bit...

Sometime late last year I made this series of crosses. The pattern is "Rockingham" in Mary Konior's Tatting in Lace. First I ...

My friend Ridgewoman recently surprised me with a gift of this book, Spitzen Ideen by Susanne Schwenke. Since many of the patterns have blo...