When I left western Colorado on Thursday, April 16, 2026  it was warm enough for shorts and sandal. But when I flew into/landed in Kalispell, Montana it was snowing.  The lovely Diane Milton, picked me up at the airport and because we were waiting for another tatter to arrive at the airport and we couldn’t check into the hosting hotel for CWT, we went back to Diane’s home in the mountains.  The photo above is from her living room window.

So Diane and I went to a local brewery/restaurant for lunch. I love to sample craft beer and found one that I liked at the Sacred Waters Brewery.

For two days, while we were at Camp Wanna Tat, it snowed. This photo is from our hotel at CWT. It was VERY beautiful!

There were 17 tatters at Spring CWT 2026.  This photo shows how special CWT is….we all get to be togehter in the classroom.  With every different class, we are encouraged to move so that we can sit with and meet almost everyone in the group.  That was very nice.  The lighting & atmosphere was fantastic.

In the middle of each classroom session, we were lead in exercises by Tess Moffatt and Debbie Arnold.  It was a great opportunity to learn new techniques to stretch our muscles.

On our way to check into the hotel, Diane and I stopped at a grocery store and I found this soda/pop.  It’s HUCKLEBERRY flavored–a local gormet specialty found in Montana

This meme does not pertain to me…I have a most wonderful husband!

In prepping for my upcoming trip to Camp Wanna Tat (my first time there!) April 17-18, 2026 in Kalispell, MT I have been relooking at YouTube videos on Turkish ‘tatting’.  I think that it is called Mekik Oyasi.  ‘Mekik’ meaning ‘shuttle’ and ‘Oyasi’ meaning ‘lace’ (or something like that).  The reason I’m relooking is that one of the classes at CWT is ‘Oya Flower’ by Leesa Kramer.  I’ve played around with the oya flower before, many years ago but haven’t done much with it.

This is my attempt at ‘tatting’ an oya flower today.  The oya flower ends at the top of the motif.  Keep in mind that Turkish ‘tatters’ use synthetic/polyester thread and when they finish with one motif such at the one I made, they either cut the thread leaving about 1/8″ and then melt the thread to finish it–something we can’t do with cotton thread or the Turkish ‘tatters’ leave a space of bare thread from the finish of one motif,  to be able to use the same thread for another motif. 

So lately I have been watching Turkish YouTube videos. I posted one of them before on my FB page, questioning whether this is true ‘tatting’.  In all the Turkish videos I have been watching, the rings and chains are created using a modification of SCMR with all the stitches being untransferred.  In this previous post, only one person commented saying that they thought they did see the stitches transferred.  Unfortunately, they were wrong. After watching many more Turkish Mekik Oyasi YouTube videos, I am positive that the Turkish approach to ‘tatting’ is quite different than traditional tatting.

So my question is:  Is it TATTING is the stitches are not transferred?

In the past, it was a popular belief that the definition of ‘TATTING’ was that the stitches were transferred.  (However, that brings us to a different question regarding Split Ring Tatting Technique!!!  We can tackle that question at a different time.)

I chose the above video to share, because it clearly shows how Turkish ‘tatting’ is created.