Liyarra's Tatting Nook

Another stunning pattern from Laura Bziukiewicz. This one was not a tat along. I loved doing Arleta so much I went and looked up her other patterns on Etsy and spent my lunch money!  https://www.etsy.com/au/market/lauratatting Thread is Yarnplayer's "Stardate" 40 and Lizbeth 40 Ocean Teal Medium (664)

Hi Everyone, Just letting you know that instead of adding a page here that I cannot add to for shuttles, I will be starting a new blog called The Shuttle In My Pocket very soon. In collating mode for all the pics and will add details to the posts as I can find them for each shuttle. Comments will be gratefully accepted, especially if you have details of a shuttle where I don't! Watch this space for new as we get set up.

This is as far as I will probably get with my Jan Stawasz 'Monster' and even then it wasn't really....lol I started this pattern from his book, Tatting: Theory and Patterns, a few years ago (Crikey....just looked it up...2009!!). The centre is the same as what became known as the 'monster' doily. I got bored with it after completing all those horrid motifs and put it away. Sadly it won't become the 'monster' because I do not have enough Venus 70 in those colours to complete it. I might just finish the one in the book......... But ergh......all those motifs! maybe.... one day..... if I don't get distracted...... Ohhh look! Laura Bziukiewicz just put another doily pattern up on Etsy!............... MMMMMMM.....new pattern.......

I was chatting with Jane Eborall about how to design animals as I wanted to make a koala to possibly try and help raise funds for our bushfire affected wildlife here in Australia. Well as usual Jane was well ahead of me and asked if I would like to proof her new koala pattern!! Hmmmm...would I? You bet I would. So Sunday night was dedicated to not only proofing Jane's pattern, but learning techniques I had never done before! Folded ring and double double stitch. Plus adding a bead to the centre of a ring which I have done but had forgotten how to do....duh! Don't be put off....they were pretty easy once you got the hang of them! Plus Jane has her great technique 'how to' pages on her site. Koala took me about 1.5 hrs but that included learning the techniques I was clueless about. He is gorgeous! Thanks Jane and BC3. Luv ya xx Thread is size 40 Gunmetal grey and black by AlenAleaDesign

Laura Bziukiewicz has become one of my favourite designers in the past few months. Her patterns are lovely to look at and great to tat. So when she decided to do a tat-along, I could hardly resist could I?? This doily is called Arleta. No longer available as a tat along but it is available in her Etsy store. https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/768040216/shuttle-tatting-pattern-napkin-arleta-by?ref=shop_home_active_32 Nice to tat. Sits well without much blocking and lends itself to a lot of different variations if you combine colors differently! Thanks for sharing Laura. I look forward to many more patterns to keep me on my toes!! Thread:  Lizbeth  40 White Lizbeth 40 Turquoise Lt (662)

I was reading through Robin Perfetti's blog a while back and was interested in her tutorial on making Magic Squares. http://tattingbythebay.blogspot.com/2017/07/designing-magic-squares.html SO with my 2 UFO doilies finished (yeay me!) I decided to try it with one of my favourite patterns by Tina Frauberger. Susanne had very graciously drawn the pattern up a few years ago when we were online chat tatting and going through the Frauberger books. Her diagramming skills are SO much better than mine and these were really helpful in nutting out the terminology in the old books (Thanks Susanne) I did exactly what Robin says to do in the tutorial but I did it in Serif instead of Inkscape. After cutting out the centre I saw that the easiest thing would be to just use the long chain as it was previously used. This made it much easier as I did not have to try to develop a centre. Not keen on getting too adventurous on a first try! Anyway this is the result. Thank you so much Robin Perfetti!!...

Recently I was gifted a stack of the Polish magazine Moje Robotki. There is usually a tatting pattern somewhere in the pages. A lot were from Jan Stawasz and are in his books but every now and then there is a pattern that is not in either of the books so is a bit of a bonus because not everyone is doing it! So this one came out of Moje Robotki issue 3 2007 Nice little pattern to do but I felt just the grey was too dull so I added cream to break it up a little bit. The only issue with the pattern is that the ring count for the last row is missing so I used 1-3+3-1 and it seemed to work ok.