Lesson 9

In my design tat group Sharon gave us this picture of a snowflake. We uploaded it into our drawing program and went to work on coming up with a design .

So this is my design from that picture. Hope you can see it, it's kind of small.

And here is what I've got tatted so far. I still like the outer edge having it completed.

Design Tat Lesson 8

I am finally about to get caught up on my lessons. The next lesson was to use whatever Ring count we used in our design and make a cloverleaf and trefoil. Of course I can't use the same Chain count as in my design but this is what I came up with.


Some people call both of these cloverleafs or trefoils but usually when the outer rings are smaller than the middle it's called a trefoil. I am learning so much, when I heard my fellow tatters talking about trefoil in a pattern I had not a clue to what they were talking about. Now I know. lol

Revised Design

In my design tatting group Sharon suggested to me to change the outer rings. I took her advice and did the small, small, large, large as she suggested. I also enlarged the center ring that attaches to the first round. I am so pleased with the results. Thank you Sharon!! You're a great teacher!

Copyright©2009 Thelma Bradshaw

Failure with Success....Finally!

Well, as you can see another failed attempt. So I took the pic then cut it off the motif. I refuse to be defeated. LOL!!

I got so excited over this trial piece. I done a few different things to it to decide what looked better. Finally , I think I will be able to make something with this.

Excitement going on here,,I am doing the happy dance. I finally was able to come up with my first design. How awesome is that! Copyright, 2009 Thelma Bradshaw

Design Tat

I had just joined the Here Be Tatters group when Sharon decided to start lessons on learning how to design your own tatting. Of course I jumped right on in cause that is something I definately want to learn to do. It has been really fun. The only problem is my limited knowledge of tatting. I will learn this though.Lesson 1 consists of looking at a pattern and deciding what stitch count to use. Of course we found out there is no right or wrong answer cause we are all the designers and it will be what we want it to be. lol Here is my first lesson.

Lesson 2 consist of seeing the differences in looks when you join at the waist, above, and below the waist. The differences in how many picots used, and the differences in the stitch count. Below are my samples I done.
Lesson 3 consist of everyone doing the first round a certain way, and then adding a second row to it of your own design. This is where I've been stumped. Remember I told you I would be adding the good , the bad, and the downright ugly...well here it is. lol

These are just the few I actually got pics of. I usually just cut them off and start again. I refuse to be defeated. LOL!!! We will be learning to use a computer program to design with. Maybe I will have better luck with that. Oh Yea,,Lesson 4 is writing out your pattern in short version and long. I believe I can do that just fine if I can ever come up with a design. Well, now I got caught up with my blog. I have been wanting to get this done for a while now. Will be lots easier keeping up with my posts now. Time to get busy designing again. Hopefully will come up with something good this time.