tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328962422024-03-12T22:57:05.087-06:00Tatted Threads and MoreSue Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798806852997756268noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32896242.post-55520084792616244512012-04-16T13:20:00.001-06:002012-04-16T19:31:04.252-06:00This is a diagram in the making for the bookmark Melanie is sharing while filling in for Georgia in today's online tatting class.<br />
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<br />Sue Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798806852997756268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32896242.post-75037010814421299842012-03-22T14:03:00.006-06:002012-03-22T14:26:17.312-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iBGg1V6tiOo/T2uF197nLzI/AAAAAAAAACg/QofqJDy9tbM/s1600/BeadedFlurry.tif"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iBGg1V6tiOo/T2uF197nLzI/AAAAAAAAACg/QofqJDy9tbM/s320/BeadedFlurry.tif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722814913708502834" border="0" /></a><br />Here is a pattern I have with beads in the base of Rings.<br /><br />This is from my book "A Potpourri of Tatted Patterns" which I still don't have totally redone.<br /><br />I am again working on it though!Sue 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mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="BasicParagraph">We had a wonderful turnout at our sessions yesterday; it’s hard to believe we had so many tatters when it was just late on Monday that I decided to form this class! I couldn’t have done it so quickly so without the help from Cynthia Stevenson, who hosts the Beginners classes on Thursdays, and Georgia!</p> <p class="BasicParagraph"> All are welcome including new tatters, aspiring tatting designers, etc. - we can all learn from those of all levels whatever the topic! We are not using any specific program/software; there are many to choose from and even free ones. We discussed many of them in yesterday’s class. Join our TattingDesigners group to read the logs and find out who uses which ones and why.</p> <p class="BasicParagraph"> We also talk about creativity and design, which can be learned!, as well as computer aided design.</p> <p class="BasicParagraph"> Also Cynthia set up a new yahoo group for us called TattingDesigners,<span style=""> </span><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TattingDesigners/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TattingDesigners/</a>,<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>that she and I will both be moderating, and all our logs will be posted there- in fact yesterday’s are already up in the files section! You can go there to join.</p> <p class="BasicParagraph"> So, <span style=""> </span>Please come join us if you can!</p>Sue Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798806852997756268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32896242.post-48784930599363670352011-11-08T08:09:00.002-07:002011-11-08T08:19:42.220-07:00Well it's been a very very long time again since I last posted because of family and stress at work and that I'm not very good at multitasking. I tend to get focused on 1 or 2 things in life and the rest totally falls off my radar.<br /><br />I was able to completely retire this summer and now my focus is on tatting.<br /><br />I'm still working on redoing my book and instead of the simple redo the whole project has taken on a life of its own. Besides just reorganizing and updating such as adding a split chain in place of a cut & tie and making pattern diagrams I started diagramming a technique in one section, then I kept thinking that if I drew this one I should do this other and of course the next too for consistency and so on & on &on.<br /><br />It was only 49 half size pages and now is 57 full 8.5 x 11 pages.<br /><br />I'm taking on a new challenge too; in Georgia's online class yesterday the subject of designing and diagramming came up and I'm going to host a class on "Tatting Design and Drawing software Lessons." It's going to begin today with a meet and greet 3PM and 8:30PM ET (New York time). All are welcome, experienced tatters and newbies alike. Please stop in if you can.<br /><br />This is something I've been wanting to do for quite a while so since it came up now I figured the time must be right for it.<br /><br />Now I'm off to get ready for this afternoon's class!<br />Happy Tatting All!Sue Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798806852997756268noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32896242.post-5153918847577935872007-03-19T17:55:00.000-06:002008-12-10T09:54:43.145-07:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Jf1kC1ZHNds/Rf8mKV9qtjI/AAAAAAAAAA0/aP7V-as0UNE/s1600-h/sm4aSnowflower3_07.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043792066814588466" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Jf1kC1ZHNds/Rf8mKV9qtjI/AAAAAAAAAA0/aP7V-as0UNE/s400/sm4aSnowflower3_07.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:verdana;">I'm back with a closeup of what is now named SnowFlower and will eventually become the SnowFlowerFlake.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;">These show some of the joins close up. The CWJ, Catherine's wheel which does not work for Round Two (do you know why? I'll answer that later) and needs to be replaced with a shuttle join—the specific kind and instructions can be found with the SnowFlower directions at <a href="http://www.georgiaseitz.com/2007/sfullerjoins.html">http://www.georgiaseitz.com/2007/sfullerjoins.html</a></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span></div><div></div><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Jf1kC1ZHNds/Rf8khF9qthI/AAAAAAAAAAk/nFc9sV5ReRI/s1600-h/sm4Snowflower3_07.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043790258633356818" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Jf1kC1ZHNds/Rf8khF9qthI/AAAAAAAAAAk/nFc9sV5ReRI/s400/sm4Snowflower3_07.jpg" border="0" /></a><a></a>Sue Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798806852997756268noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32896242.post-25163237861726292122007-01-31T12:46:00.000-07:002008-12-10T09:54:43.392-07:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Jf1kC1ZHNds/RcD7VTB4qUI/AAAAAAAAAAU/ywq7P5Jf5cA/s1600-h/SnowflakeDesignSample72.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5026293527449479490" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Jf1kC1ZHNds/RcD7VTB4qUI/AAAAAAAAAAU/ywq7P5Jf5cA/s320/SnowflakeDesignSample72.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br /><br /><div>I'm finally tatting again. Joined the 25 motif challenge in August. Then needed to take 2 intense college courses, one an ENG 303 Essay class, the other an EDU 263 Teaching and Learning Online Class, to strengthen my job security (at least hopefully this will!). By the time these were done, the Holidays were here. It was just too much for me to multi-task so much so the tatting got left behind for awhile.<br /><br />Here's the portion of a motif I began designing this month for the Tatter's Calendar but never made it! I'm putting it on now so because we've been talking about "joins" on the "Here-Be-Tatters" list. The arrows point to shuttle joins where I think I had to count the join as part of the next ds chain (I usually don't when making shuttle joins to a chain below) but because the join tilted to slant upward when joined to the long picot below I had to count it. I'm going to work some sample pieces of joins of heavier thread to compare, and see exactly what I did. Unfortunately I was working fast, didn't write everything down that I did and should have know I'd forget the details. Have to go to work soon so can't get these samples made today!</div><br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Jf1kC1ZHNds/RcD67jB4qTI/AAAAAAAAAAM/ZlJy3ygXWYo/s1600-h/DoubleDaisyPicot72.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5026293085067847986" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Jf1kC1ZHNds/RcD67jB4qTI/AAAAAAAAAAM/ZlJy3ygXWYo/s320/DoubleDaisyPicot72.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />I was intrigued and loved the the "double daisy picot" pattern by Riet the B-engel from Holland on the <a href="http://tat-calendar.blogspot.com/2007/01/january-14-daisy-picot-edging-by-riet.html">Tatting Calendar</a>, I had never seen or heard of this before. So I went to <a href="http://bengelblog.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html">her site</a> and followed her directions to make the one at left. </div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div>I love it and tried to put it on one point of the snowflake, but ran out of thread-you can see the broken spot in it at the upper right of the photo. I think it's too heavy of a design anyway for this flake, and I want to study it's construction compared to using a mock ring with rings on it and also I think the other clover style point at the left is better for the snowflake. This snowflake will not make it for the January calendar, but I will be using it as a "Process of Design" sample in. I was out of the tatting world so long that I'm not familiar with all the designs out now so please let me know if this resembles someone else's snowflake! </div><div> </div><div>Bye for now,</div><div>Sue F (Susan K Fuller)</div></div>Sue Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798806852997756268noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32896242.post-1155919098400207242006-08-18T09:26:00.000-06:002006-08-18T11:27:14.900-06:00<span style="font-size:85%;">Put this post up then checked and realized none of the links I made worked! I had just hand pasted them into the code and they all disappeared when I published eeeuuw. So</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> I went back and then noticed the link icon, edited and reposted - This version works YEA.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Found my tatting notebooks this morning in the 5th box unearthed from my closet! Now if I can just find my shuttles and thread I'll be on my way.<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />I'm really inspired by all the motifs for the <a href="http://25motifchallenge.blogspot.com/">25 motif challenge</a>: </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-lXijxY8_fqMqkDRTKTjwsR7eif4-?cq=1&p=900">Wally's</a> beaded motif</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> - it's beautiful, and also <a href="http://rozellalinden.blogspot.com/">Ruth's</a> Celtic motifs -Wow is she fast! Then there's </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://glow-tats.blogspot.com/">Gail's</a> TAT artisan celtic motif and also her beaded motif from Wally's tat along pattern (see Wally's blog at <a href="http://tat-along.blogspot.com/">http://tat-along.blogspot.com/</a> ) and <a href="http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-NmaRxbIyYqfHWT2S.k8MfH8Ziw--?cq=1">Cyamese Tats'</a> gorgeous motif. I see <a href="http://schiffchenarbeit.de/blog/index.php?/pages/25motif.html">Werner</a> also has a motif for the tat along that combines crochet & tatting- I like this idea of combining two techniques. I can see I need to get going fast since I now also want to work on a version of the tat along pattern too. I've got to try a combination of tatting with needle lace in the center of the motif!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">All of this will be a huge challence for me since next Thursday we leave to take our 10 year old grandson back home to California. A very quick 5 day trip since and then the day after we get back, I'll need to go back to work. I plan to tat my whole way there and back and hopefully get lot's of motifs done for the 25 motif challenge. Then I'll need to get going on my tatting website to make my deadline.<br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><p>Here's two more of my starting paisley pieces:</p><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5632/3604/1600/FlowerFiligreePaisley.8.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5632/3604/200/FlowerFiligreePaisley.8.jpg" border="0" /></a>I think the challenge with this piece on the left will be to work it down to 1 or 2 continuous rounds so it qualifies as a "motif" and is easier to tat.<br /><br />And this last one below right really needs help -better shaping cause it looks awfully blobby shaped now!<br /><br /><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: right" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5632/3604/200/FlourishPaisley.7.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>Happy tatted threads to you all,</p></span>Sue Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798806852997756268noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32896242.post-1155834336653610912006-08-17T08:57:00.000-06:002006-08-17T18:00:08.423-06:00<span style="font-size:85%;">This is a first for me - I've never had a blog until today!</span><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5632/3604/1600/HeartsDesire.4.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5632/3604/200/HeartsDesire.4.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">I'm taking up the 25 motif challenge as my entry back into the world of tatting after a looong time away! After publishing a book "A Potpourri of Tatted Patterns" back in 1995 thru the late '90's, I pursued other interests until now. Some of you may remember me by one of the patterns in the book-- Heart's Desire at left, which was used by Georgia's online tatting class in the late 90's or early 2000's (?). </span><br /><br />Back to the challenge! I am digging out all the designs I was working on back then and will work on the paisley motifs I had started for the book I had planned to do next - "Paisley Pizazz". My challenge motifs will become this book. I have sketches for all kinds of designs to make out of these motifs including, flowers & butterflies of course as well as angels and more. </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Here's where I'm starting from:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5632/3604/200/HrtDsrPaisley.6.jpg" border="0" /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Heart's Desire Paisley obviously </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">adapted from my Heart's Desire! </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">And since I can't seem to get another picture to go into this blog, I'll put the next two paisleys pictures into my next blog.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">As well as the 25 motif challenge, I've also planned a few personal challenges</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">for myself. </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><strong>1.</strong> I am going to reprint my first book. I could never decide if I should just reprint it as is, or redo it first. My originals for this are printed out pages of the text onto which I've glued the finished designs. I take these and place each page individually on the copy machine, then collate, staple and fold them myself. These originals have now gotten battered & are only good for 1 or 2 more reprints and also they were done before I had even heard of a scanner. In fact I had just been exposed to a computer & taught the basics in order to produce the text for the book. So the book is black and white, many of the images are not so good and I thought maybe I should reorganize it to go along with all my teaching lectures, handouts and notes.<br /><br />Sooo.....what do I do? I attended the lace convention in Denver last year and a couple of tatters who have my book like it and thought I should just get it out the way it is and go on.<strong> I'd love any of your thoughts and opinions - what would you do?</strong> Should it be redone with color like so many other books?<br /><br /><strong>2.</strong> Get a tatting website up and running by the first part of Sept. Probably a bare bones site at first cause waiting until it the way I want it could take forever.<br /><br /><strong>3.</strong> I've joined the online tatting class which starts in Sept. and will be contributing a lesson.<br /><br /><strong>4. </strong>Way back in the 90's I had also been working on patterns for a "By the Sea" book. Although for a while after I saw that some other designers had done seahorses, I thought maybe I should forget these. But mine are done differently so I'm going to finish them as well as some shell designs!<br /><br /><strong>5</strong>. Finish many of the rest of my partially finished designs - cactus, more snowflakes and hearts, and odds and ends of others.<br /><br />Now, if I can only find all my tatting notebooks with my sketches and project pieces (we just moved last month and there're in a box I haven't found yet) I'll get started. I guess that's enough for now and I'm sure glad the 25 motif challenge is a year long!!!<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span>Sue Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17798806852997756268noreply@blogger.com3