Tatting

[atherleisure]

A lovely octogenarian woman started teaching me to tat Saturday. Here's what I had at the end of two hours.



It's not going to win any prizes, of course, but it's not too shabby for a first attempt. The first two rings are just trying out the stitches. Then I started following a super-simple pattern she wrote out for me.

Comments

[danabren]

ooooooh!

[elizabeth_mn]

It's so pretty and delicate!

[bethzylla]

I've been halfheartedly trying to learn for several years now. My mom knows a little, but I so rarely get to visit her that I usually forget what I've learned by the time I see her again! Are you using a shuttle, or needles?

[atherleisure]

I've been practicing a few minutes each night, but I'll see the woman teaching me in the next week or so. I'm using a shuttle. Now I have to find the 19th century patterns I know I've seen in some book or other.

[mala_14]

Pretty! So fun to learn a new skill.

[atherleisure]

It is! Not that I need another hobby...

[llyrafantasyfae]

oooohhhhhhssss and ahhhhhhssss, this is on my learn one day bucket list.

[atherleisure]

It turns out not to be very hard. Good luck learning it some day. It is very slow, though.