My Mother-in-law came to visit a couple of days ago and she had this crochet green bag which I'd forgotten I made for her.
Back in 2012, I posted this photo of Mark Myers' pumpkin pattern which I had tatted. Unfortunately, the link didn't work anymore but a reader kindly gave me a new link from the Wayback Machine which works. So if you had been looking for this pattern, you can find it here. I know it's still summer and you're probably not thinking of pumpkins yet but hopefully, you'll be happy to have it come fall. Mark Myers (aka Tat-Man) has many one shuttle designs and this one is no exception and a creative way of achieving the pumpkin shape.
Thank you Sarah for providing me with the new link!
Someone has a special birthday coming up and she likes pinks so I'm making the one-shuttle edging again (see link on the pattern page). I didn't have a lot of time and this seemed a reasonably quick pattern to make. The colour of the hanky is an unusual shade of pink but I found I was able perfectly to match it with Lizbeth's Shell Pink Lt.
Back to tatting! I need to get this finished soon.
I finished the green edging for my mother-in-law. It's simple but effective and the shape appeals to me, like little shells.
My mother-in-law really likes hankies and always has one in her handbag or her pocket. It's been too long since I made her a new hanky so as her birthday is coming up, out came my shuttles to tat an edging. I was going to go for something more complex but in the end the shape of this simple design appealed to me - it's from Ann Orr's Tatting Book No. 35 revised. I am tatting it straight onto the handkerchief, attaching it as I go.
Happy New Year everyone, I do hope you had a wonderful holiday with family and friends and that 2023 is off to a good start!
I want to start my blogging new year with an apology: over the last few years I've regularly had people contact me to say they were not able to access my free patterns. I couldn't figure out what the problem was so I sent patterns to people who emailed me directly but... I had not visited the gmail account linked to this blog for some time and have just found many many emails from readers asking for access to patterns and I didn't know they were there and I didn't answer them!
So MANY apologies to all the people who contacted me via the google docs system to ask for access to patterns and I unwittingly ignored you! I have now re-uploaded all the links on my patterns page and I'd be grateful if people could test links and tell me if they now work.
