Hurray!

[piroshki.livejournal.com]

A tatting group, at last! Many, many thanks, to whoever got the bright idea to create this group!

I'm piroshki «...hi, piroshki...» and I've been tatting fairly continuously since 1982.

I learned to tat in north Sweden, where a fellow pilot told me I needed to learn patience, bodypressed me into a couch, taught me the two basic stitches, gave me a huge pattern and a hand-made wood shuttle and told me "Okay, just go".

Well, that one never got completed...truth be told, I burned the tangled mess after two weeks of pulling my hair out over it. But the habit stuck, and I can now tat while reading, watching television or movies, or just about anything that does not require at least one hand at all times.

I have done restoration for museums and insurance companies, taught, run (and disbanded) two Yahoo lace-making international exchange groups.

I've taught, including one experience at the Braille Institute (#5 Cordonnet and Tatsy shuttles. Believe it or not...they learned), and always have at least one spare shuttle with me when I'm working, in case someone comes by and wants to try their hand at it.

And I lovelovelove to tat!

Hope to see and share many wonderful patterns and projects!

Comments

[moniqueleigh]

Wow! Museum restorations? Cool!! I'm a historian at an 1888 house museum in Mississippi. My intro is a bit further down the page.

Soo... Is the icon something you made? Very nice.

[piroshki.livejournal.com]

In one of the tatting exchanges we had, several years back, a group of us decided to get together and see if we couldn't design some button motifs, for use as flowers to be applique'd onto shirts.

That was one of twenty, and the only one I have remaining. It's cute, and it was a lot of fun to do (as well as being very, very quick - perfect pocket-project), but I'm just not the sort for putting flowers on my clothes.

[moniqueleigh]

Yeah, I'm not much for flowers on my clothes either. :) Most of my tatting is given away, but I do make earrings, etc. for myself.

[elspethdawitch.livejournal.com]

Welcome, I'm Tia, the founder of this community...not the most distinguished of tatters but the first who finally put all those "there should be a tatting comm!" thoughts into action. Welcome :)

[jennfurr.livejournal.com]

Hey! I know you! :P

And I have a couple of your tatted xmas ornaments floating around here somewhere. Next time you decide to make Disneyland your port-of-call, do you think you could teach me in a couple days?

[piroshki.livejournal.com]

You should have a couple of pairs of tatted earrings, too (Jim kept picking 'em at the InGathering), and at least one bookmark.

I could probably teach you in a couple of hours if you've got that many sprog-free, more like four or five if Poof keeps trying to run me out of the place, or several weeks if Jim helps...