Hello everyone.I have not been updating my blog for a while, posting more on my Facebook page  instead. I find it rather difficult to keep up with writing in two different platforms, so you'll find me less here and more on Facebook, which will contain more latest posts..If you would still like to follow my tatting adventures and stories, you can find me here,https://www.facebook.com ..read more

Her is an update on what has happened since my last post on designing.This is what I had drawn with Inkscape.Then I used my rings template to tat the piece.  You can barely make out the stitch counts that I used for the prototype, which is this yellow one,As you can see, I did not finish it. This design is a one-pass design and I needed to see its shape at full circle. Overall it looked okay, but ..read more

 I have taken several approaches when designing tatting.In the early days, it was a pen & paper method where I made sketches of the designs, just a few rings and chains and test-tatted them.  Almost all the time, I will have to make several attempts to get the stitch count right for the repeats and all that.Another method is I just go with the flow and get it all done. This worked for small ..read more

 A brief update on the Spring Doily, shown below after completing Rd 10.It is getting hard to work on this because the rings are getting smaller in the next round, as you can see from the yellow that I am using for Round 11.  Those rings are mostly (5+5) with a few (6+6) in between.I am using Olympus Fine Tatting thread for this and it working out to be like size 70.  Just have to be extra ..read more

 My progress on the Spring 2023 doily is as Rd 7. The tat-along can be found on Renulek's blog.My shuttle ran out of thread so, I took the opportunity to take a photo of it before reloading the shuttle.I am using Olympus thread for this, the fine thread.  There is no size number on it but it feels like size 70 or 80.My Flowers of Spring (Ruth Scharf) project has not progressed much either.  I am ..read more

The squares that I posted earlier in this post have grown slightly bigger.I am using remnants of size 20 thread for this.  I don't often use size 20, preferring size 40 instead.  There are a couple of remnant balls if size 20 which I may use.  There are enough thread for maybe one shuttle-full of each ball.  I can get six or seven motifs from one shuttle-full of thread.It might just end up as a ..read more

 This is another past-date design.A medallion that I designed sometime in 2017.  If it may look familiar  this was used as a centre for the Harmony doily. which came later ..read more

First of all, I know the name is past-date. I was cleaning up my files in my laptop and realised that I have not shared this snowflake pattern in my free-patterns list.  I think this was the time when my laptop had gone kaput and I stopped blogging for a while.  I am trying to catch up on things and this is one of those.Enjoy ..read more

This is an output from the abandonment of the previous project, Indahloka.I needed something easy to close that project, so I repeated the centre of it and finished it with a series of trefoil round.Finished size is 14cm, tatted using Olympus Gold Label (colour M12).Here is the chart if you wish to try.  There are five rounds in all, the first four are shuttle-and-ball rounds but the fifth ..read more

 I abandoned the project that I started earlier, the one with the blue/green/tan thread.I decided that I didn't like it as much when I added the orange thread.I actually finished the round but the piece didn't lay flat even after pressing.  There is some kind of rippling between the rounds.  It is not really visible in the photo but the ripples are there.I snipped the whole orange round off.  ..read more