This pretty floral doily can be found in Lily No 70 – Doilies & Edgings To Tat & Crochet The Lily books were published by the Lily Mills Company. This book, No 70, is unfortunately out of print, but the wonderful Teri Dusenbury has made the tatting-related pages available for all. Copyright: 1953 Designed By: [...]

Jeanne L. Lugert, better known as LadyTats, discovered this technique while making daisy picot stars for her daughter’s wedding. Copyright: Designed By: Jeanne L. Lugert Direct Link: http://ladytatspatterns.blogspot.com/2009/08/alternating-color-daisy-picot-flower.html

This pretty edging can be found in Lily No 58: Edgings Crocheted Tatted The booklet, by the Lily Mills Company contains patterns by unknown designers and is unfortunately out of print, but the wonderful Teri Dusenbury has made the tatting-related pages available for all. Copyright: Active 1930-1960? Designed By: Lily Mills Company Direct Link: http://teritatbitdusenbury.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/tatting-tatbit-tattersarchive-edgings-lily58.pdf

Lovely daisy edging found in Novelty Tatting and Maltese Crochet Book No. 6. published by Novelty Art Studios in approx 1915. Many thanks to Judy who scanned these pages in to share with us all. Monica provided the lovely sample tatted above, and the original image is shown below. You may also find a very [...]

This cute bookmark is a great way to practice set stitches in chains and is brought to us by Sharon Briggs. The sample here was tatted by Alizandria Copyright: 2006 Designed By: Sharon Briggs Direct Link: http://sharonstattedlace.blogspot.com/2006/07/small-bookmarks.html

This original doily pattern by Irina Astratenko is recomended for “intermediate master” level tatters and should take about 40 hours to complete. The completed doily has a diameter of 38 cm. Irina sells the 7 page pattern on her website. Designed By: Irina Astratenko Online Link: http://www.beadsky.com/patterns_t.php?page=2&ln=en

This pretty edging is found in the J&P Coats booklet no 229. The booklet, copyright 1946 by The Spool Cotton Company of New York contains many traditional patterns by unknown designers and is unfortunately out of print, but occasional copies do pop up on eBay and with second hand sellers. Copyright: 1946 Designed By: unknown

This pretty edging is found in the J&P Coats booklet no 229. The booklet, copyright 1946 by The Spool Cotton Company of New York contains many traditional patterns by unknown designers and is unfortunately out of print, but occasional copies do pop up on eBay and with second hand sellers. Copyright: 1946 Designed By: unknown

Jane Eborall has designed this delightful beaded button flower. I think they’d look great as part of a bouquet, a hair decoration or even as an ornament. There’s a variation provided and instructions for the trickier technique. Copyright: 2010 Designed By: Jane Eborall Download PDF: http://www.janeeborall.freeservers.com/buttonmini.pdf

This floral towel edging design is found in the J&P Coats booklet no 229. The booklet, copyright 1946 by The Spool Cotton Company of New York contains many traditional patterns by unknown designers and is unfortunately out of print, but occasional copies do pop up on eBay and with second hand sellers. Copyright: 1946 Designed [...]

This pretty floral spray embellishment is found in the J&P Coats booklet no 229. The booklet, copyright 1946 by The Spool Cotton Company of New York contains many traditional patterns by unknown designers and is unfortunately out of print, but occasional copies do pop up on eBay and with second hand sellers. Copyright: 1946 Designed [...]

Jon Yusoff has designed this lovely Heart of Daisies, filled with lots of gorgeous flowers. A perfect way to use up small pieces of left-over threads too! Jon gives two versions of the instructions, with and without split rings. Copyright: 2008 Designed By: Jon Yusoff Online Link: http://tatsaway-patterns.blogspot.com/2008/08/heart-o-daisy.html

This floral bookmark pattern by Kersti is a striking design. Works up well using mutiple colours for the flower centres and petals or as here in a solid colour. Suitable for a beginner. Copyright: 1998 Designed By: Kersti Anear Online Link: http://www.kersti.com/?p=411

This lace fragment from Mary Konior is simple and would look great on collars, cards or bookmarks among many other things. The book is unfortunately out of print, but occasional copies do pop up on eBay and with second hand sellers. Copyright: 1988 Designed By: Mary Konior

This lace fragment from Mary Konior is simple and would look great on collars, cards or bookmarks among many other things. The book is unfortunately out of print, but occasional copies do pop up on eBay and with second hand sellers. Copyright: 1988 Designed By: Mary Konior

TotusMel teaches you how to needle tat in this fabulous instructables set. No knowledge of tatting is needed, but knowledge of other fiber crafts such as knitting and crochet may be helpful in understanding pattern construction. You will need a size 5 tatting needle and size 10 crochet cotton thread. Though using any thread and [...]