When my sister and her boyfriend announced their engagement, my mother and I immediately began planning our contributions. The most meaningful project
we worked on was the wedding dress. My mother designed and created the dress; I made the veil and tatted the lace for the bodice. Despite our hard work and effort, neither was as beautiful as the bride who wore it. The
lace was tatted with Guterman silk and embellished with pearl beads. I adapted the pattern from Anne Orr.

The only hankie edgings I have done (so far). Both are tatted directly onto the handkerchief. One is embellished with some silk ribbon embroidery (for my good friend Katie). The other hanky was made for my sister-in-law
Helen. It led to my first experience with tatter's elbow, as I raced to get it finished and delivered by the wedding day. Helen's pattern was adapted from an edging by Julia Sanders. Katie's was simply chains. Both were tatted with DMC Cordonnet 70.

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This doily was supposed to be (and someday may still) a tablecloth for the beautiful walnut dinner table that Granny, my husband's maternal grandmother, bequeathed us shortly before she died. The pattern is a motif from Blumquist and Persson.

 I should not participate in exchanges. I always want to use them as an excuse to try something new, whether thread or pattern. It typically means that my exchange partner has to wait past the deadline to receive his or her 
goody. In this case, I wanted to experiment with creating a three-dimensional flower. This little motif has two rows of "petals" tatted in one pass. It looks like the rim of a wheel when viewed from the side. I used a cheery shade of Anchor Cordonnet 40.

 

 

 

    

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