Looking back, my tatting year of 2024 was dominated by 3 large projects, all of which were marked by varying degrees of diverging from the pattern or no pattern at all.
The Online Tatting Class began the year seeking to recreate this hat from the April 1922 issue of Needlecraft magazine. Vintage patterns are one of my passions, so of course I joined in. You can find the pattern on their site here (select Tatted Hat Project). If you are a member of their Facebook group, you can see the progress of assorted members.
I was going merrily along until the instructions called for attaching the 18 pattern repeats of the top of the hat to 8 motifs around the side. No, no, no! I must have symmetry! So my hat has 9 motifs around the side, joining to the top very nicely. (The pattern also called for tying or sewing sections of the hat together, but mine is all tatted together with joins. I'm stubborn that way.) To get the top and the sides to fit, I altered that last round of the top, was that Round 13? A slightly longer chain here, an omitted join there, and its diameter grew wide enough to fit. The little fill-in motifs became ovals instead of circles to lie flat. I made a few other changes as I went along. So a little winging it led me to an improved version still true to the original.
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