Posts by batracy

Last weekend my husband and I drove across Wyoming on our way to visit our daughter and her new husband. On the way there, I tatted up this little ghost.…

I'm not even sure what this is. I had planned on designing a pear (who knows why), and came up with this. It doesn't quite look like a pear to…

I pulled out one of my favorite old tatting books, "Tatting Techniques", by Elgiva Nicholls to get some inspiration for something new and different for my pattern this month. I…

I have "wedding" on the brain this month. My niece got married in Virginia at the beginning of the month, and asked me if I would host an open house…

Have you ever picked colors and thought they'd be fun, but when your project was done, you thought, "What was I thinking?!" Well, I did that with this design. Whew!…

Actually, any square motif will work for this idea, and if you know how to make split rings, this pattern would work up without all the cutting and tying. How…

Sometimes I get ideas from strange places. I was thinking about this month's design the other day and happened to look at the shower curtain. It had bears and moose…

I have a tendency to design patterns that are very dense. I love interesting negative space, but I have a hard time designing it. I just let myself go with…

This little bag was fun to tat up. It's designed to hold the rice that people throw toward the bride and groom at weddings. It was quick, but I don't…

We have a plethora of bunnies in our neighborhood this year. I have to be careful as I drive in the morning that I don't hit one. I'm starting to…