gemstone

This is a gemstone I bought, when I was hosted in Brenda's house in England last year. I have tried to frame it to use it for a necklace. I worked the whole day of yesterday, without finding a solution, because the gemstone always fell out, as it has no hole.
Today I started at 7 o'clock in the morning and I came up with this. It is not a good image, as it is scanned, and everything has to be perfectionated. But without a bit of glue it will not stay. So, when I was at last excited to have finished something, I put a bit of glue under the tatting, and...I got the glue also on the stone.
Though it took me hours to make this, I will make a better one!

Fantasia 3

This is the new book ready. The theme of this book is edgings and insertions. There are 18 patterns, and descriptions of the extraordinary techniques, like the cluny leaf.
You will find also the black edging (not in black).
Some information about my other books are on the tatting book blog .

images of earrings

Marta from Poland has worked the earrings and she has made also a symmetrical piece. You can see them on her blog.


Karen has send me this nice picture of her version of the earrings on the vase.









And this is Johanna's version of the earrings
Those of you who have worked the earrings, please write me, you will recieve a surprise!

decorated box

This is a sample of the boxes Inga and I are prepairing for a new book, which will be ready in autumn. The decoration of this sample is from the book "tatting square motifs together", but the ones of the new book will have stunning and never seen decorations.

Katie and Carla

Carla made this doily out ot my book "Tatted doilies" and added another round from another doily in the book. She will soon publish it on her blog "Il chiacchierino della nonna".




Some of you have already made the earrings, and I'm so happy about this. Here is the picture Katie Verna sent me from her version of the earrings.

Difficulties of earring

Dear tattingfriends,
I'm so pleased that you all try to make the earring. Step 15 and 16 are difficult. But if you have problems, please send me a scan of both sides of your earring, tell me the number of the step where you had the difficulties and I will try to explain what went wrong.
When you arrive at Step 15, you are working on the back side. The ds of your light color ring show in the same direction of your previous dark chain with the bead. Without changing any direction take the middle ring of the center flower over and make first join there. The chain with the bead is on your left. Work the next ds, take the bead under your ring and join there, as you see on Step 16. Work the last 9 ds of first half ring and join to first picot of dark chain (Step 17), then work the ds of second half. Close and only now put your ring in the right position over the bead (Step 18).

Fourth steps of earring

Step 19: Work now the second ring in the same way as described at Step 4.


Step 20: Work the third ring 10+10, joining through the other rings to the picot of your underlying chain near the 6mm bead.




Step 21: Without reversing work a chain as described in Step 13. Join to last picot of center flower.
Now we have only to hide our thread ends on the back.






Et voila, our earring is ready!