Before I start rambling today - is there anybody who can help a lady who wants to learn shuttle tatting and who  lives in Upstate NY, just...

Don't you just hate people who do a post without a picture?  Well you're gonna hate me now!! I really wanted to just talk to...

What IS it about my dear friend Sue Anna that Royal Fail and USA Snail don't like?  She's generous, kind, harmless to man and beas...

Here are two more - these are autumnal.  Did you ever wonder why I do all my Christmas giveaways in 'un-Christmas' colours?  Well,...

Having shown you the muddle of doodles for Chris and Erin's shuttles I thought it only fair to show them all paired up and ready to go...

Now I know for sure why I won't ever produce a book of tatting patterns. Yesterday my book arrived from Martha.  You can see the...

A bell at last.  One that I like!! There are two more underneath this one.  What a struggle this was to get it how I like it.  I now ...

Thanks to everybody who sent me birthday wishes yesterday.   It was pure coincidence that the birthday thread was named that by Natali...

On Monday I ordered some thread from Natalie from her Etsy store .  I chose the one called 'birthday' because I just couldn't ...

I didn't actually PROMISE I wasn't going to post every day - it was just a sort of 'suggestion' to myself and you guys!!! ...

Well it was Saturday morning and another hot (yes I did say hot) day in my corner of tat land.  Not a lot had been planned for the day. ...

I went to see a friend the other day and she showed me her dragonfly necklace which was made entirely of beads - no tatting. BUT thi...

Well, they've done it again - Royal Fail.  This is what Sue Anna had to say. Do you remember the last batch of shuttles I put in...

Did you miss me yesterday?  I've decided to cut down a bit on my blogging.  Not because I've got nothing to say - after all I am a...

Well actually this one will never toll again for anybody!!!  Remember the Outside In Bell?  Well this is what happened to it the other da...

Here are the rest of the doodles for Erin.  I'm still waiting for pictures of the shuttles but hope to have those for next week.  ...

The page is up and ready to go -  here's the link .  If you do ever get round to making it I'd love to see it. Thank you to ...

Some time ago I was in touch with Erin Hinton of Hinton's shuttles.  They're now making shuttles out of epoxy resin in which they ...

Last Thursday evening I'd finished this dragonfly and was dying to see what it looked like as a necklace/pendant.  I have a friend who...

Finally I've got the pattern up and running for the plain butterfly - it's here. I was hoping to get them both done at the sam...

Yes, I'm RICH. I heard months ago from Barb at Handy Hands that they'd chosen my suggestion for a new colour combination in the ...

Well having given the two blue crosses away I suddenly realised I hadn't got one for myself.  I like to keep one of each pattern in a ...

The page is up and ready to go - here's the link .  If you do ever get round to making it I'd love to see it. Thank you to my...

Still working with a size 40 thread I decided that this bell would probably look OK in a ring. These rings are 2 1/2" in diam...

Here's the pattern and here are two more worked exactly as the pattern states - for once!!! I'm a terror for changing my pat...

Here are three of the butterflies which my stalwart test tatters made.  Megga big thanks to them and all t'others.   I'm almos...

This next pattern is one I started on for sheer amusement!!  I'm getting bored with tatting and I needed to challenge myself in a new ...

This is my 'Travelling Wilbury' project!!!  I started it waaaay back and it's been in my handbag ever since.  I actually worke...

W ill somebody please send me a new brain cell?  I need one with more memory.  Pity you can't buy it and slot it in like you can on a ...

OK, get out your brain cells - here's a question for you!!!  What am I working on now? This is the only clue you're gonna ge...

Finally the Fandango cross is finished!!!   Here are two of them which I made to double check (2, double - get it?) the pattern.  I ...

This post was originally going to be the boring part about the butterfly below but I have been following this blog by Heather lately.   If...

Further progress has been made on the diamond mat!!   Choosing a background fabric to mount it on was a problem.  I thought brown wo...

I saw an interesting blog post the other day about this over here . There have been many, many interesting discussions and argument...

Oh, heck!!!  Yesterday I forgot to release this post (two small grandkids and lots of excitement for the last few days) and then today I n...

I really want to show you one of the stunning doilies that Eska has in book 2.   Can you see how interesting this one is?  I love the ...

When I originally did the Fandango edging I never in my wildest dreams thought of it as anything more than 'just an edging'.   ...

Some time ago I won some books on Ebay.  Do I need more tatting books?  Answer is, of course, not!!!!  This was a gamble which paid off an...