I’ve finally done it, I’ve started a tatting blog. I doubt I’ll get much traffic, but as a self-teaching tatter I know how valuable the odd blog post can be when it shares experiences and hints of the craft. I suppose to start I could just tell you who I am, why I tat, what I’m doing with a blog.
I first started tatting when I was 10 or 11- one of my best friends and I would craft together on the weekends, and eventually we ran out of crafts we had heard of and found crafts we hadn’t heard of -like tatting - in the back of vintage homemaker books we snuck off our mothers’ bookshelves. I started with needle tatting and I must have switched to shuttle tatting shortly thereafter but I honestly don’t recall when or how the switch occurred.
All tatters must surely agree - tatting is AWESOME. So why don’t more people love to tat?- there’s a crocheter and a knitter in every coffee shop corner and yet the tatting world feels so small.
The tatting world felt even smaller when I relocated to Boston last year to pursue my Master’s degree. I’m accustomed to picking up any tatting supplies I needed at the local hobby lobby, but it there’s not a hobby lobby for miles and when I enquired at local shops they’d reply- “Tatwhat?”
I don’t know why, but the absence of Tatting in this city made me want to tat more. I went from a summer season/long plane ride tatter to a daily tatter in a matter of weeks. And then I started designing, and I suppose it’s been full speed ahead ever since, including the major event of my Etsy store opening last month.
I have tons to blog about in regards to my daily tatting, and I’m really excited to start documenting my adventures here!
I welcome comments and emails and don’t forget to pop by my shop to see what designs I’ve published recently https://www.etsy.com/shop/UrbanKnotDesign
Happy tatting,
Roselyn
I first started tatting when I was 10 or 11- one of my best friends and I would craft together on the weekends, and eventually we ran out of crafts we had heard of and found crafts we hadn’t heard of -like tatting - in the back of vintage homemaker books we snuck off our mothers’ bookshelves. I started with needle tatting and I must have switched to shuttle tatting shortly thereafter but I honestly don’t recall when or how the switch occurred.
All tatters must surely agree - tatting is AWESOME. So why don’t more people love to tat?- there’s a crocheter and a knitter in every coffee shop corner and yet the tatting world feels so small.
The tatting world felt even smaller when I relocated to Boston last year to pursue my Master’s degree. I’m accustomed to picking up any tatting supplies I needed at the local hobby lobby, but it there’s not a hobby lobby for miles and when I enquired at local shops they’d reply- “Tatwhat?”
I don’t know why, but the absence of Tatting in this city made me want to tat more. I went from a summer season/long plane ride tatter to a daily tatter in a matter of weeks. And then I started designing, and I suppose it’s been full speed ahead ever since, including the major event of my Etsy store opening last month.
I’ve got sketch notebooks full of pages just like this
since I’ve started the journey of designing:
I have tons to blog about in regards to my daily tatting, and I’m really excited to start documenting my adventures here!
I welcome comments and emails and don’t forget to pop by my shop to see what designs I’ve published recently https://www.etsy.com/shop/UrbanKnotDesign
Happy tatting,
Roselyn
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