#tatting lace

[aqlstar]

Tatting is such an underrated hobby; I can make as many things as I want and I still go through $0.25 of materials.

Every other fiber/textile related hobby is so expensive.

[waterlilly18]

I made some earrings and a bracelet back in may. It was a lot of fun!

[slavsquatting-rat]

Do you want to see the evolution of my lacemaking skills?

No?

Too bad, because

From the first lesson to the most recent one.

Yes, this weird abstract mess

Is much more complex skill (or like, an effort) than the first one. It's awful but I like it anyways.

Also I've just finished this little guy

My crochet lace still looks much better (even unblocked as in the photo) but also crochet is not only much easier than tatting but I have also much more experience in it

[scribblesandknots]

You know how, for a long time we didn't know nålebinding existed and people thought that those red socks were knitted and it turned out they weren't, they were made by nålebinding, you just had to know very specific details to tell which craft they were made by?

(these socks:)

I know a little bit about a lot of different fiber arts. I know: knitting, crochet, spinning, tatting, bobbin lace, needle lace, embroidery, and a little nålebinding.

Inspired by these socks, I want to create the most archaeologically confounding frankendoily out of all my crafts, and then I want to immediately commit it to a bog, for preservation. A tatted motif at the center, with a bobbin lace round around it. Maybe there's a knitted border with a crochet edge. Some needle lace motifs hanging around, but like, I'm gonna mix Romanian point lace with Battenberg styles. Something's getting embroidered somewhere. Idk.

And I'm gonna make the whole thing out of the most historically generic white cotton thread I can find, something that could maybe have been used hundreds of years ago so you can't tell when the frankendoily was made. Maybe I'll even make it over different decades of my life. Also I'm left handed, but I can do most things right handed too, and some of the crafts look slightly different depending on which hand you used as your dominant hand.

And then the whole thing is going in a bog, because bogs are really specifically good at preserving cloth, and I will go quietly into the void at the end of my life, knowing I leave behind me a very specific kind of chaos and confusion for some very specific future kindred soul.

If anyone has any additional crafts I should learn for the frankendoily, I'm all ears.

[librarychair]

Blocking some of the doilies I've crocheted and tatted out of colored thread through the last couple years. The large tatted doily is Renulek's spring doily 2022, the long narrow pink and yellow one is Tatting By The Bay's onion ring magic square. Many of the crochet patterns are ones designers have posted for free on their instagram, but some are also "pirated" from instagram as well. Made with both vintage and modern threads.

[scribblesandknotsshop]

Throwback to these bookmarks I made a few years back - not only are they some of my favorite tatting I’ve done, these were also some of my favorite staged pictures I’ve ever taken for a crafting project! I can also do this lace pattern as a choker, which is what the last picture shows. 

(I don’t have these listed on Etsy anymore, but if you want one, just message me - I’d be happy to make them again and set up the listing.)

The pattern for these is from Robin Perfetti’s bookmarks collection, but unfortunately her Etsy shop has not been up for a few years, so the collection is currently unavailable. You can still find her free patterns on her blog: http://tattingbythebay.blogspot.com/.

[regrese12]

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[minimewtreasures]

Crafter: Miki Matsusawa

[gender-dyke]

[Image ID. beaded lace bracelet made of blue and black threads with light blue beads. End ID]

Finally finished this tatted bracelet for my mother!! Im very proud of it since it was my first time working with breads!

[notquitebilateral]

At the local library makerspace 3D printing tatting lace shuttles

They have ended up smaller than I thought but they are usable and this is a free print anyways. I am making 3.

Do I know how to make tatting lace? No. But I will be trying now.

[aqlstar]

Completed shuttle tatted yellow ribbon in size 10 cotton with gold glass beads.

It’s for my Bubbe’s synagogue to remind everyone of the hostages that have been held in Gaza for over 14 months. I’d encourage everyone to do something-whatever that looks like for you- to help your synagogue be better advocates for the hostages too.

If you’re not sure where to start I have printable informational flyers you can print yourself and put in your synagogue here-

[waterlilly18]

Here's some of my tatting projects from 2022!

In August, my cousin had a baby, so I made baby slippers from an antique pattern (from Tatting Book No.13 by Anne Orr)

I also made a necklace with a black velvet ribbon for myself, and a bracelet version with flower beads for my best friend.

[scribblesandknots]

Made a lil bookmark! Can never have enough bookmarks.

(ID: two pictures of a red lace bookmark with tassel tail. One picture has it laying on a book and the other is a blank brown background.)

[librarychair]

Tatting with size 40 rayon embroidery thread. This is the thinnest thread I'm really comfortable tatting with.

[nikkinelson1313]

hi there 💕