My mother always says: Actions speak louder than words! So, when several people asked me how to wind thread onto flat tatting shuttles, I thought… rather than trying to describe it, I will just make a video!
Hurrah for
technology!
How amazing
to be able to do this!
I grabbed a
handful of
tatting shuttles
and then,
showed how to
make a Lark’s
Head Knot
through the arms
of the Great Mother
tatting shuttle,
so it can be worn as a
pendant.
This is a handy trick to know,
as you can easily do this
with a key or scissors or other
tools, and wear them around
your neck, too.
I made the cord in the video with one of my Cordelia …read more

I am a totally visual person and I love metaphors.  Today, I had a really metaphor-ish sort of a day.
I have been working really hard on getting some
technical writing done to meet the deadline
on the final stages of my book,’ The Woven Bag’.
It’s been a fairly ‘left brain’ time,
focusing in on writing the
exact chunks of text that
are needed to make the book flow.
I have to confess that it hasn’t been
an easy skippetty hop time.
I have had to grab myself by the scruff of the neck
(metaphorically speaking, of course)
and plunk myself down and glue my nose to the keyboard.
Well, that ‘plunking …read more

The dragonflies have been dancing and flitting about lately, and seeing them has finally made something click for me….
I’ve been playing around with designing a tatted dragonfly for years, and have never been satisfied with what I have come up with.
BUT… when we were walking the dogs this morning, it struck me that I have been trying to do an accurate representation (in tatting) of still photographs of dragonflies.
What really clicked for me was that I realized that I wanted a simple image of the dragonflies in motion. I thought about what we see when a dragonfly zooms past us:
The …read more