Handmade Christmas Ornament- a great gift
November 24, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under Christmas & Christmas projects & holiday crafts, tatting
copyright Noreen Crone-Findlay
When our kids
were little,
I would draw
a special Christmas
card every year, and
get them printed.
Now that they are
grown up, I don’t
find making cards
to be as interesting.
Instead, I prefer to
design and make
ornaments that
fit into an envelope.
We mail off our little treasures , or give them to friends in person. It makes me happy to know that they will have a small memento of love and friendship on their tree.
Friends tell us that they pull their ornaments out, year after year, and they love having little treasures from our workshop and studio.
Just thinking about that fills me with delight.
There are a million patterns for handmade ornaments on the internet, and I am going to round up some links for you over the next couple of weeks.
Today, it’s tatted snowflakes. Our tree has all kinds of tatted snowflakes and other ornaments that I have tatted over the years.
They are still packed up at this point, but I’ll take some pics once we get the tree up.
There has been a lot of snowflake action on the Tatta Tat Tatters group that I moderate on Ravelry, and people have been posting some awesome links. Here are a few of them:
http://www.thisntat.com/medallions/snowflake1.html
http://www.geocities.com/birgit_ph/smallstar.html
http://nuperelle.net/om/hvordan/FlytendeEng.pdf
http://nuperelle.net/om/hvordan/hvordan.htm
http://www.craftown.com/tat/pat8.htm
http://www.be-stitched.com/files/jansnowflake.pdf
http://www.scribd.com/doc/7346509/Tatting-Snowflakes-Flur…
http://www.be-stitched.com/pattern0706snowflake.asp
http://www.e.n.e.btinternet.co.uk/
http://www.georgiaseitz.com/2009/snowflakelist.html
So, there you have it…. some wonderful tatted snowflakes.
If you don’t like using a pattern, then perhaps you can design your own snowflake. Then, you’ll know that, like the ‘real’ version of snowflake, yours is totally unique!
