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Comment by Lorelei Halley Administrator on February 19, 2020 at 5:51pm

Is this useful?

https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/s960x960/50274362_194...

Comment by Rosemary Marchant on June 23, 2019 at 12:59pm

Dear Georgia:   Here is a link showing inverted tatting. However the instructions are for shuttle tatters. I am asking for how to do inverted tatting with a needle. 

https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2015/02/tatting-techniques-i...

Many thanks!  Rosemary

Comment by Georgia Seitz on May 20, 2019 at 5:11pm

Interesting doily

https://www.georgiaseitz.com/2019/patterns/20190520revisitoutwestdo...

Comment by Georgia Seitz on April 7, 2019 at 1:19pm

Sometimes just dampening them with water is enough. But be sure to choose a sturdy thread, a six-cord mercerized cotton like Lizbeth is very good. Pearl cotton will not have the same body to it.

Give this a try for cluny practice:

Comment by Patti Duff on April 7, 2019 at 11:15am

I don't stiffen my bookmarks. My tatting is tight enough that they will hold their shape. Plus, being pressed between the pages of a book will help them retain their shape.

When I starch something like snowflakes, I use a diluted PVA glue to make them slightly stiff.

Comment by Elizabeth Ligeti on April 6, 2019 at 12:47am

Do you stiffen your bookmarks, or leave them 'soft'?

If you stiffen them - what do you use?  How stiff do you make them?

(Those who know me, know I am always full of questions!!!!! :) )

I am still on a big learning curve, - and enjoying every minute of it. Also, tatting is so portable, so I can do it while sitting around here & there with DH...!!!  :)

Comment by Elizabeth Ligeti on February 17, 2019 at 8:40pm

Well, the Cat's Cradle I played as a child was quite different from making Cluny Leaves!!  Making Lots of tallies - leaves in bobbin lace was a big help, as I knew the basics, but just had to adapt to holding the threads differently although the actual weaving was the same.  the YouTobe on a Box Loom was a Big help, and also Muskaan's site with lots of information about Cluny leaves.

This whole "adventure" back into tatting after such a long lapse is great fun, and I am learning SO much!!  I have even joined 2 Tatting Guilds!!!! :)

Comment by Lorelei Halley Administrator on February 17, 2019 at 8:28pm

I did learn to make Cluny leaves once, long ago, but have since forgotten. There is a string game called "cat's cradle". My impression is that Cluny leaves are like cat's cradle on steroids.

Comment by Elizabeth Ligeti on February 16, 2019 at 9:10pm

Well, I have successfully learned how to do Cluny Leaves!!

After browsing the Web, and watching Georgia's video using a Box loom, I rigged up my lace pillow, and used berry pins, and worked with that!  I had tried using my hand but got a bit crampy, so tried the loom way. 

As I make Bobbin Lace leaves with the 3 passives in between my fingers, up above the pillow, and use the 4th bobbin to do the weaving, working with the box loom was very similar and so quite easy - 3 threads coming to my left hand, and the shuttle weaving with my right hand.  I still managed to get a couple of Holly leaves, though!!!!!  :)

Still, - that is another technique learned!!  I just have to learn to make slightly larger picots, as mine are very small.

I am really enjoying this journey getting back into Tatting. There are so many "new" techniques around since I taught myself in the mid 1950s!.

Comment by Anita Barry on October 15, 2018 at 7:17am

Hi Elizabeth!  Yes, HH new metallic thread has a different property to it, it's not as flexible as cotton thread.  It doesn't need stiffening.  That's nice. And it's so pretty!  

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