Martha's Tatting Blog

I love old fashioned tatting.  One of my favorites is the classic wheel motif.  Yes, this one here. It turns out the wh...

I'm usually not much good at coming up with pattern names.  And I don't know a lot about real life butterflies. Thanks to a lin...

When I started working on a book of tatting patterns with buttons, I just assumed I had plenty of buttons on hand.  But when the ti...

For my upcoming book of button tatting patterns, I've been working up various types of motifs -- butterflies, angels, hearts,...

One of the reasons I haven't been blogging very much is because I have been busy trying to put together a new book, and the theme is tat...

When designing small, simple patterns, sometimes you can accidentally come up with something that has been done before. Does an...

Here are class projects from the Finger Lakes conference , going clockwise.  The theme was "Fantasia," so the hippo is Jane...