The new cardigan - progress report

I told you about the new cardigan project back here.    It’s time to report on my progress!!!  OR lack of!!!

I really haven’t read through the pattern to the end!  Although I knew it was knitted from the bottom up I didn’t realise quite how many stitches would be needed for the rows!!!!  There are 245 stitches.  Those include the button band.  It takes considerable time to knit a row but it does get more interesting as you get further up the body.  Least I hope it does!!!

IF you look very closely at the sides you’ll see where I’ve started the patterning.  Well I did a few more rows (well, quite a few more!) and then decided I’d made a mistake so ripped it all back to where you see it now!!!!  Ah, well it’ll mean I’ll be kept out of trouble for a while longer!!!!

New FREE pattern

This is the final pattern from my Palmetto teaching trip.  If you want all the patterns taught by the designers/teachers then please take a look here where they can be found on the Palmetto Tatters site.

This is the pattern that I taught and this is where you can find it.  

A Monday moan to make you laugh?

As you all know there are many, many books ‘out there’ on tatting and the new books now hitting the shelves are ones that really are hilarious.  I think they’re a joke.  I DO NOT recommend you to buy them.

They’re generated from other people’s work and often include sections of text ‘lifted’ from older books/web sites.  But what makes me laugh is this new generation of books.  You don’t even have to look very closely to see that in the first picture for needle tatting the cover has bobbin lace on it

The second ‘author’ appears to have ‘stolen’ her cover photo from the first person which is amusing.

Now when we come to the third picture “Mastering Shuttle Tatting” you’ll notice that the book cover has some type of lace which I can’t identify but it certainly isn’t shuttle tatted!!!  

Finally the last book says it’s an advance guide to beautiful lace and also needle tatting essentials!!!  I’m sure the producers of these books have never seen any tatted lace as none of the covers show any.  I feel sad for those who waste their money buying these misleading books.