tatting patterns with errors

Dear tatting friends,
Translating my book into italian I realized that it enters the category of patterns with errors. Fortunately the detailed diagrams help to understand also without the text. There is one pattern, where a number is missing in the text and on the diagram. Please contact me, if you have any problems with working the patterns. Here I show you some pictures of my test tatters. These have been made by Brigitte Henneberger and Jutta Grun from Germany:





And here some pictures from my dear test tatter Sherry Townsend from New York:

New book "Just for Fun"

Dear tatting friends,
my new book is now available at Lacis Online Catalogue
As there is no image yet, you can have a look at all the pages on my website www.iristatting.com
A bit of warm weather has finally arrived in Italy and everything is already green and the nature is wonderful and enjoying. Unfortunately it will rain again this week and clouds have already arrived.

Denmark

Dear tatting friends,
I have returned from Denmark yesterday and I will show you some photos from this marvellous time I spent there hosted in Inga Madsen's house. Here we are on front of the entrance to Ingas house.

Here some pictures from the computer class, where I taught to make tatting diagrams on the Adobe Illustrator program.


In the middle of the week we were invited to Lis Christiansen and Lene Borns house in Nakskov. This is a nice place on the seeside.


Here we are in front of Lis' house and later in the afternoon in front of Lenes house. Here in four we eat half of this big and tasteful applecake with whiped cream on it.


On the weekend we were in Tommerup for the annual meeting of the Danish Tatting Ring, with exhibitions and workshop. At the workshop I taught one of my earrings.



And here Inga and me tatting in the train. I'm also trying to read something in danish. We are with the train on a bridge over the see.


Boxes Inga and me made together and decorated with some of the squares of the "Tatting togehter square motifs" book.

The beadcross earrings

Dear tatting friends,
Now that I have finished my book I have time to work my patterns. This is an earring from the new book, one of my favorites. I worked it with a Finca Perle mixed with a metallic thread. Worked together these threads are about a 30 size. A metal wire inside the outer round holds the earring in perfect shape.

Dear tatting friends,
after many months of work my book is finally ready and will be sent to the printer next week. I show you here the cover. There are 15 patterns from simple to complicated, but really all easy to make.

Roundrobin doilies

I have neglegted my blog for a long time, very busy working (in the night and on weekends) on my new book. As I have nothing new to show at the moment, I thought to show you some images of roundrobins I partecipated many years ago. We made these togehter with Adelheid and Martina from Germany, Hedy from Svizerland and Eva from Sveden.
My book seems never to come to an end. Description text got far too long to make a nice book, as it is also in German, which is even longer, you imagine pages of description text? Now I tried some solutions, one was to invent new tatting notations, which could be comprehended without translation, but I gave them to Jane to try them out, and ... they didn't function. So now I'm redoing everythin cutting the text down and making detailed diagrams. But, the more I change, the more confusione comes in. The houshold is neglegted and I'm a bit unhappy. Outside a very cold wind blows and it is colder, than it was in the whole winter, though the trees are already blooming.
Happy tatting to all,
Iris

The last piece

This is the last piece of my first tatting book. Somebody who lives in a very hot country, where you can't wear necklaces, asked me if there will be broaches in my book. There will be items in the book, which can be adapted for broaches and hairclips, but I thought a lot to find a solution for a brouch, which would be sufficiently stiff and hanging down from a stiff support, where you can attach the broach finding. Here it is.