New book

My dear friends,
Hurra, my new book is nearly ready and will be printed within the next days.
This pattern is the only not new, but perfectionated.

Mistery solved

Dear friends,

I solved the mistery. The flower with rings on both sides is worked open, with a third thread inside. Please correct me, if I'm wrong, but I think this technique is called pearl tatting. Then I carried all the threads inside the stem, working non flipped ds. The leaves are Maltese rings with inner rings.

Mysterious flower

Dear friends,

looking around among my things yesterday I found these two flowers. Now, I like them but - I don't remember how I made them and will have to study to find it out!!!
Jane, you are right, surely they are Maltese rings. But normally with Maltese rings we can make only rings on the outside, ore rings on the inside, not both. So perhaps I used the SCMR technique for the flower. I will try that out and show you another colour version.

I love the Lizbeth yarn

Dear friends,
This is a pattern from my new book, which will be published soon.

I worked the pieces with the lovely Lizbeth yarn, which is really a great fun to work with!

Earrings for my pupils

Dear tatting friends

It's really a long time since I have last tatted. Actually I'm teaching german in a private school in 8 different classes, so I have a lot to do.

In a fifth class my female pupils asked me to make them a pair of earrings like mine, so I promised them to work them in christmas hollidays.

Fortunately the girls are only 4, otherwise I would have to deny.

Here they are:

Now I tell you about the difficulties to work them.

First the most difficult and time consuming task is to find the matching colours. I look at all my dozens of bead colours and nothing seems matching to the thread. Three girls wanted violett, pink and white, one wanted orange. First attempts went bad, colours did not match and hours went away.

Second difficulty is to make the copy mirrored. In this pattern it is not so easy, though some of you talented people were able to mirror the more difficult version of these earring.

Third difficulty is to work slowly and precise, because I have to make a gift, so the work has to be the most perfect possible. This means, even and regular stitches, small joining picots, good tensione to make it stiff. Perfect, invisible and never opening hiding of thread ends.

Fourth difficulty is, that the earring tangles around the finding, so I inserted a piece of thin wire inside the ring of the finding and along the first chain. This holds the earring in perfect position.

For these 4 earrings I worked a lot of hours, but now I have finished and I'm satisfied.

I'm sure I will have to make other earrings for the girls of other classes!

new doily

Hollidays are wonderful. I had some days free from children and grandchildren, and so I decided to design a new one round doily. Here it is. I'm redoing it with some corrections and an other colour combination.

Danish tatting day

The next saturday there was the danish Tatting Day, with a tatting workshop. You see how they are all concentrated and busy working.
I taught a piece from my last tatting book, called Rita.
In a big room downstairs there was a little exhibition of all the works of the members, and there were also sellers of thread and shuttles.


There I bought some balls of variegated Lisbeth thread size 20.
With this thread I worked the piece of the workshop, which you see here on the right.
Do you see the surprice? This piece Rita has split rings in the middle, and..., look at them, they are all in one color. And the stripes of the squares are all in different colors. After every split ring i have changed the shuttles with a simple knot (to chainge the colors, when I work with 2 different colors), and, 2nd surprise, the color did not change, all green on one side, all lila on the other.