September meeting

Khomi tatted a star motif at our guild meeting.

Here's the star all done except for hiding the ends and blocking. The pattern is one of mine, and available as a free download: click here.

I worked on this Daisy Picot "Key" motif at the meeting. The pattern is part of my new online class on Craftsy, Next Steps In Shuttle Tatting. Click my affiliate link here to see the class preview, and an offer of 50% off.

Ana finished tatting the earrings that she was working on, and in doing so learned the valuable skills of adding a new thread and opening a closed ring! 

August meeting photos

Khomi admiring the "froggers" that Barbara decorated.
Barbara has definitely mastered split ring tatting!

A "frogger" is a needle used to undo mistakes..."rip it, rip it"! 

Sue Anna modeling a headband knit in a traditional arctic pattern made of qiviut yarn (from musk ox), a fiber 8 times warmer than wool.  

Qiviut yarn and a sensuously soft hand knit scarf from Alaska.

Sue Anna winding hand dyed thread onto a storage bobbin. Holding the skein open by putting it around a water bottle and the corner of the table is a clever way to keep the thread untangled!

Close-up of this effective winding method!

July meeting notes

There were 5 of us at the meeting, and we were having so much fun that I forgot to take pictures!
But, here's a photo of a book that we were looking at, "Viktorianisches Occhi" by Julia Haug. The book is written in German, with clear photos and new diagrams of patterns selected from the works of Mademoiselle Riego, first published in the years 1850 to 1886. Patterns include edgings, doilies, and collars, with several designs using Maltese rings and pearl tatting.

Khomi was working on a tatted star, one of my own free patterns:
Here's the link to the PDF 2-Way Star.

May meeting

A new tatter getting some instruction from Marilee

Crafters of many talents, Heather and Ana

Tatted button heart and more tatting in progress by Heather

Heather's tatted earrings in progress

Practicing double stitches, our new tatter, Tina, is doing very well!

So nice to get together with tatting friends and make a new tatting friend. Passersby even stopped by our table to see what we were doing. There was a discussion on thread sizes and types of tatting shuttles. Lots of fun at this meeting! The time passed very quickly.

January meeting notes

 During this meeting, Sue Anna finished a pair of colorful tatted earrings with beads all around the edge. In the photo above, she and Marilee are admiring her work while Barbara continues working on a project from a Mary Konior book.

 A close-up of Sue Anna's tatted earrings. They're so pretty!

 Barbara's bright red tatting in progress. The heart design is from Mary Konior's book, "Tatting With Visual Patterns". It's a wonderful book full of patterns and helpful design hints, a true tatting classic.

Diana wasn't tatting this time. Instead she was crocheting a cord that will be used to outline Romanian Point Lace. Looking forward to seeing more of her lace project! Sue Anna is holding a book by Jon Yusoff, "Tatting With Rings".

Next meeting January 19

The next meeting of The Greater Milwaukee Tatting Guild will be January 19. Time frame is 3 pm to 7 pm (but I won't be arriving until about 4 pm). Location is the Mayfair Mall food court (usually at the tables near the outside door excalators) 2500 North Mayfair Road, Wauwatosa, WI 

Tatting and candy

There were just 2 of us today, so we had all the chocolate to ourselves :)

I worked on another "Rotation" pendant, and Ana finished tatting the Christmas Tree 2013 pattern by Ruth Perry. The happy notebook was one of the many gifts that I received from Jennifer Titus at Tatting Days in Indiana. The hand dyed thread skeins are from a new batch called "Candy Mint". 

October meeting notes

There were 7 of us at this get-together. Sue Anna delighted us with stories of her adventures at Tat Days, and brought projects from classes taken there: pearl tatted self-closing mock rings, beaded tatting, Jane Eborall's Pig motif, and more.

Khomi brought a beautiful bookmark with tiny tatted flowers to show that was made by her mother's friend in India, who sells them as a fundraiser for a charity called "Baba Amte's Anandwan and Creative Employment for Housewives and Students".

One of the girls, a beginner who was having some trouble with her needle tatting, asked to try the shuttle. She got the flip in just a few minutes of practice! So, I hope next month she'll have some tatting to show.

There were a lot of tatting pattern books to look through and admire. The photo below shows just a few. I think we were all in agreement, though, that the large, 3-D tatted "mosquito" shown on the cover of "Tatting GR-8 Baubles, Bugs, and Blossoms" by the Shuttle Brothers, was one project definitely not on any of our to-do lists - lol :) We've all been bitten too many times :)