Martha's Tatting Blog

The snowflake I showed you recently has easily morphed into a cross. I may need to elongate the lower part just a bit, but I'm pretty ha...

I was lucky to win a give-away from Tatting it Up . The shuttle looks like woodgrain, but it's actually made from vinyl. She also includ...

There are so many snowflake patterns available now, I cannot keep track. This was very easy to design, but is it too similar to anything al...

Off and on I have been studying a really old pattern book, Tatting or Frivolite , by Mrs Mee and Miss Austin. It is not dated, but was publi...

In general, people seem to think that the old fashioned written out pattern style is a bad thing, and the newer short hand patterns are a go...

A week ago today, I did something I had not done for a long, long time. I wound some shuttles and tatted! Can you imagine? It had been such...

A week or two ago I almost finished this doily, "Anemone Nemorosa" by Iris Neibach . It is in her book Tatting Fantasia 2 . I was ...