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This simple tatted medallion is found in Tatting Book No 48 by Anne Orr. The book, copyright 1950, which is after Anne’s death, is nolonger in print. However, many patterns were reprinted in other volumes, so there’s a good chance that you’ll find it readily. Copyright: 1950 Designed By: Anne Orr
This simple tatted medallion is found in Tatting Book No 48 by Anne Orr. The book, copyright 1950, which is after Anne’s death, is nolonger in print. However, many patterns were reprinted in other volumes, so there’s a good chance that you’ll find it readily. Copyright: 1950 Designed By: Anne Orr Sample By: Shannon-in-love
This deep edging design 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: [...]
This very pretty edging design 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 Jon Yusoff. Pattern uses SCMRs for the centre motif and regular rings and chains in the outside round. Requires two shuttles. For this snowflake, Jon uses the GR-8 Brothers method of making the SCMRs. Copyright: 2009 Designed By: Jon Yusoff Online Link: http://tatsaway-patterns.blogspot.com/2009/10/featherline-snowflake.html
Anne Bruvold brings us a lovely little square star design using 2 shuttles. This pattern is in Norwegian, although Anne does provide help for English speakers. Copyright: 2007 Designed By: Anne Bruvold – AnneB Links:
This lace fragment from Mary Konior is made entirely of rings. 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 lovely snowflake was designed by Laura Blanton incorporates front-side/back-side tatting. Copyright: 2008 Designed By: Laura Blanton Online Link: http://www.freewebs.com/laurasmuse/snowflakepatterns.htm
Mark’s Trefoil Snowflake design uses SCMRs but you can swap these out for regular rings if you wish. Copyright: 2001 Designed By: Mark Myers Direct Link: http://tatmantats.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/trefoilsnowflake.pdf
Sally writes – “The SCMR is actually a modified chain, but the important thing is that it can be used to make rings that come off rings, not split-ring style, but in the way that we make rings coming off a chain.” This is another great snowflake from Sally for practicing SCMRs. To me it [...]
Sally writes – “The SCMR is actually a modified chain, but the important thing is that it can be used to make rings that come off rings, not split-ring style, but in the way that we make rings coming off a chain.” And this lovely simple snowflake is a great introduction to SCMRs. Copyright: 2004 [...]
Sally writes – “Many of you may call these Double or Triple Picots but in Malvern we call them after our dear old tatting pal Kim Wright who is no longer with us. He invented them, in our part of the world at least, and well into his 80′s did lots of them with many [...]
“Why this name? Because I designed the snowflake for the cover of the leaflet advertising my first autumn tatting course at Malvern Hills College. And claimed that by Christmas the students would be able to make one! (They did.)” Copyright: 2004 Designed By: Sally Magill Direct Link: http://www.ringoftatters.org.uk/seasonal/xmas/smagill/smagill1.html
Jane Eborall presents this gorgeous snowflake design featuring 2 thicknesses of threads in one pattern. While the pattern includes instructions for adding beads, these can of course be left out. Uses split rings and SCMR. The link will directly download the PDF pattern. Copyright: 2010 Designed By: Jane Eborall Download PDF: http://www.e.n.e.btinternet.co.uk/Snowflake2Thick.pdf
Beeton’s Book of Needlework was originally published in Great Britain in 1870 by Ward, Lock and Tyler. Sample above tatted by Soyloquesoy 2010. Instructions below as per the original. For modern tatters, oval means ring and purl means picot. Work first 8 ovals, each composed of 5 double stitches, 3 purl divided one from the [...]
This lovely snowflake designed by Jon Yusoff is made with rings only, including split rings. Copyright: 2006 Designed By: Jon Yusoff Online Link: http://tatsaway-patterns.blogspot.com/2008/08/rings-only-snowflake-with-beads.html
Also known as the Ferris Wheel Snowflake and the Easter Egg Snowflake. This gorgeous lacey number by Laura Blanton includes two variations to the design (pictures of variations not included). Copyright: 2008 Designed By: Laura Blanton Online Link:
Beeton’s Book of Needlework was originally published in Great Britain in 1870 by Ward, Lock and Tyler. The sample above is by mistyknits. Instructions below as per the original. For modern tatters, oval means ring and purl means picot. Fill the shuttle, and commencing a loop, work 1 double, then 1 purl and 1 double [...]
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