Hi All,
This 'tatty' theme has made me smile in reminiscence! Many years ago,
Essex (UK) Lace Makers used to hold monthly 'At Home' meetings, and one of
the venues was in my home. Someone saw the very grubby and elderly piece
of tatting, still partly attached to shuttle and hanky, and said she
couldn't do tatting for love nor maney. I blithely said I'd show her.
Well - how the mighty are fallen! I just couldn't get the stitch to work,
so retired very red-faced! I resolved, there and then, to retrieve
Rebecca (I think) someone's book, and relearn to tat. I took the book,
several shuttles, and several reels of thread away on a holiday, thinking
that I'd have miles of tatting to show for the holiday. No such luck.
There were seven ways of tatting in the book - the inference being that, if
you couldn't do any of them, you were just beyond the pale. I couldn't!
I used miles of thread, but didn't succeed. It was only when I came home,
and attended one of the Woodbridge Art Club meetings that a friend taught me
yet another method, and i haven't looked back.
But I still remember the anguish of that 'At Home' day ...
Carol - in Suffolk UK
----- Original Message -----
From: "bevw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Lace Arachne" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 12:27 AM
Subject: [lace] to tat, or (k)not
Hi everyone
I taught myself tatting years ago, from a library book and a piece of
string.
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