The tree is trimmed, the, house is decorated all the clutter ends up in my sewing room so now the baking begins and I am cutting back this year. At least I keep telling myself I will. Today I'm sharing my tatted snowflakes. A few years ago when I was still a newly wed my Grandmother gave me a pair of pillowcases with a tatted edge. I was intrigued by how the edging was made so Gramma showed me then handed me a shuttle to teach me. It is one little knot on a loop sometimes with a little loop to make a picot. The trick is flicking the knot from one string to the other so that the series of knots slides on the loop. I made all these at least 30 years ago I can't remember if I could make one in an evening or if it took 2 evenings to make one snowflake depending on how complicated it was. Then they were starched and pinned straightening out each little picot.I used to hang them on the Christmas tree with snowmen and white lights. I haven't done the snowman tree for a long time most of the playdough snowmen have broken or turned brown with age.
2 comments:
Ann, I'm so impressed by all your beautifully tatted snowflakes. And I love them lying on the blue fabric. A great picture.
These reallly are gorgeous. ANd I love the photo of them on the blue background too. I taught myself to tat when I was about 20.... had a little runner I decided would be good for Mum for Christmas that year -- she still hasn't received it! When I picked up a shuttle a little while ago, I couldn't work out what I was doing!
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