WHERE TO BUY MY BOOKS

Dear tatting friends, thank you all for your nice comments on the new book, comments are always much appreciated. The new book "Fantasia 6" will be available within some days. For all of you, who are new, here are the links of where you can buy the new book and also all my other books: USA, Canada and rest of the world: www.lacis.com Germany and rest of Europe: www.barbara-fay.de Italia: www.tombolodisegni.it USA: www.hhtatting.com and www.tattingcorner.com There are also others who sell the books. I thank you all for your interest in the book and I'm sure you will enjoy it, Iris

tatting fantasia 6

Dear tatting friends, My new book is ready!!! Some of you have suggested me to invent easy patterns. I have given it much consideration and realized that modern tatting cannot any more be done without the techniques invented in the last decades. For example, if we compare tatting with knitting or crocheting, we see that the latter have a much larger number of techniques. In my opinion, even a beginner must learn all these new techniques, because each of them gives an interesting sign to the modern tatting patterns, which are not any more comparable with the old ones. I have spent a long time developing patterns of same shape to be the same size. That will enable you to combine them together, giving wings to your fantasy. For example, you can use triangles to make hexagons, stars, rhombuses end edges. Hexagons can be knotted together closely or the little trinagular spaces between them can be left open. With the squares you will find a surprise. This was exactly the result I was hoping for you: that you can take the small elements and combine them to obtain interesting works in any size you want. The book contains 6 triangles of same size, 7 hexagons of same size, 5 squares of same size plus 2 small squares fitting into the space left open of the bigger squares. I wish you much fun with this new book

some yewellery

I ridid some of the yewellery of my book "Just for fun", and I worked also some new ones: have a look at them

some new doilies

happy Christmas days

Dear tatting friends, the book is now available at Lacis Lace Museum I wish you all happy Cristmas days

My friend Sherry Townsend

When I was years ago invited to teach at Palmetto tatters days, the first person I met while going from the sleeping room through the garden to the classroom, was Sherry Townsend, an eccentric lady with a lot of red long curled hair and very colored clothes. She saw me and said to me: you are Iris. From that moment on we became friends and she has become the test tatter for my books, a work she seems to enjoy a lot. So also for the new book she has tested all my butterflies and given me precious suggestions to make the book the most perfect possible. Thank you, Sherry, I hope we will have an occasion to meet again. Here is the picture of her Christmas decoration: The buttefly book can be bought from Lacis

Christmastree

My tattingfriends, What do you think about a Christmastree like this?

The butterflybook is ready for you to buy for Christmas. Happy tatting

Teaching in Berkeley

Dear tattingfriends, My butterfly book is nearly ready, my test tatter is testing the last butterfly!!! A little picture for "entrance": Butterflies, flowers and tatting design will be the class titles I will teach from 23rd to 29th of January 2017 in Berkeley at Lacismuseum http://lacismuseum.org/classes/ Dead line for subscription is 31st Oktober, so you are in time to subscribe!!! I would like to meet a lot of you.

The butterfly book for autumn

I have eventually startet to work on the book I was long time thinking and procrastinating because of the complexity of the descriptions. Therefore I will publish - with the help of my husband and daughters - tutorials for learning the various techniques. These techniques are all included in the flowers and leaves, on which are the tutorials. These exercises will make the realisation of the butterflies much easier.

Other two butterflies

More butterflies

Three more butterflies

I have startet to work on the new book!

new siblings of my butterflies

I'm finally working on my long awaited butterfly book!!!

The cluny doily

I made this instead of other much more urgent things to do!

leaves and flowers

I have a dilemma, I cannot decide where to start. Perhaps you can suggest me your preference?

daisydoily

I made this doily with the cluny daisy. I did not yet block it. so the chains are a bit irregular.

The daisy flower

This is my versione of a daisy flower in the style of Elisa du Sud's (elisadusud.canalblog.com) patterns. I like her doilies and creations a lot. This will be one of our free patterns, but not one of the first ones, because it is difficult.

Free patterns

I'm intentioned to publish a series of free patterns with the theme "flowers and leaves" every 1 or 2 weeks. The patterns include a lot of techniques, from pearl tatting to cluny leaves, nearly all with encapsulation of treads. The first series will be flat, later there will follow the threedimensional. Here is the first one: Inside the stem there is a third thread, which I will call "guide thread" (in the pattern in black),and the ds, which encapsulate the guide thread and the thread of the opposite color, are not flipped. This gives the work a nice stiffness. Try it out and enjoy!

Flowery square doily

FANTASIA 5

My new book is printed and already for sale. The techniques include encapsulation and threedimensional tatting. Sherry Townsend, celticdreamweave.blogspot.com, tested the pieces and gave me precious suggestione for the comprehension of the patterns. Looking at her blog you will note, what interesting color combination she has used for my patterns. Here you really can see the difference between an european lady and an american lady. I show you here some pages: You can buy the book at http://lacis.com/catalog/