The County Fair was different this year -- like it was only half there. Fewer entries, fewer vendors, fewer animals...you get the idea. ...

Renulek's Spring Doily has been all over the 'net -- here included. I started on March 18th and finished tatting (YES!) on May 1. It...

In the waiting room at the clinic in an almost comfortable chair, I did my tatting in public. Too bad International Tatting Day, April Fool...

Sometime in February I started working on "Cascade" from  Blomqvist and Persson's Tatting Patterns and Designs . It has been f...

Still working on Renulek's Spring doily. I'm out to round 7, but I left off the decorative picots in round 8. Can't say why, exc...

All over the 'net -- in the blogs, in the tatting group on Facebook, at InTatters -- people are doing Renulek 's latest doily:  Spri...

  Look, look, quick -- it might get away! Well maybe not, but I think they are the big Blob and a little Blob and the big one now has a ...

Here's that double split chain I was going on about in the last post. This round ends with a ring of 2+2+2, then a chain of 6 ds, a bar...

The pattern is written down to this point, but, like always, I changed it a bit while reworking. The four small rings on top of the large ...

For all of you who can't see the error -- yes, you are right: it is small, not very noticeable, and I made an effort to disguise it whe...

"Oops" because I really like this one and there's a join into the wrong picot right in the most open, visible part of the doil...

Here's another doily with no pattern. ( This is just on the scanner -- and it's too big, but you can get the general idea. ) See? ...

Okay, it's not magic, but sometimes it's really necessary! Margaret suggested blocking the rumpled mess I posted earlier. I didn...

During the time I completely ignored this blog, I was tatting.  I just wasn't accomplishing much.  To start with, here's a blue d...

Covered Lotion Jar This covered lotion jar is my Creative Arts entry. I got a third place ribbon for it.  Pretty good, since there were ...

The County Fair was held at the end of August.  I didn't have very many things to enter because I was busy with other not so fun stuff...

The State Fair is over and I'm starting on entries for next year.  So far what I have are really ambitious ideas! I demonstrated ...

Another bit of a doily from all that split chain practice I've been doing.  As you can see -- I've got a center I really like.  This...

The only other things I entered this year were not tatted.  I entered these two crocheted doilies: Now I have to decide which to enter i...

Two colors of purple Lizbeth size 20 thread and Marie Smith's method of doing split chains resulted in this doily: The center is the s...