This is the final posting about how I ‘use’ lace as a decoration in my bedroom. My dresser and nightstand are dark wood that are great contrasts to white/ecru lace. So I had glass tops custom cut to sandwich my lace and keep it clean. Now I have a usable surface that I can spill make-up and place my coffee cup on and still enjoy the lace without hurting it.

Shown here are 2 and a half pieces of Romanian Point Lace, 3 small tatted snowflakes (made by me), a piece of Teneriffe Lace and half a piece of Carrickmacross Lace (made by me).

Anne Orr Pattern #6 from Cross-Stitch and Tatting, Book No. 14 (published by J. & P. Coats Co., 1923)

Find the pattern in my home menu under   Anne Orr Historical Split Ring Tatting Patterns

Then look in The ShuttleSmith’s Historical Illustrated SRT Patterns

The Pattern is in PDF.

I finally got around to figuring out how to add PDF files to my website pages!!!

I now have 3 Illustrated Pattern PDFs posted on this website.

Go to:  Anne Orr Historical Split Ring Tatting Patterns on my homepage menu.

Then click on the subpage:  The ShuttleSmith Illustrated Historical SRT Patterns.

I did not ‘design’ these patterns.  They are historical patterns by the Anne Orr Studio that I consider the ‘missing links’ between the introduction of the technique of Split Ring Tatting Technique and  the actual usage of the technique in actual patterns.

I have worked the patterns, making minor revisions, and then created a modern illustrated pattern.  The original written patterns can be seen on my webpage under:  Split Ring History on my homepage menu.

I will continue to add more of these historical patterns in the future.  Watch here for announcements.

I have decided to update my Copper Glass-Enameled Tatting Shuttles.

I took off the old ones and replaced them with 12 new ones.

They will be available until I decide to update in the future.

My ‘babies’ need homes!!  Please ‘adopt’ them for a nominal fee of $25.  Free shipping to US addresses.

This is another posting of how I use lace. This is my the top of my bedroom dresser. It is a lovely dark-colored wood that was just begging to have lace put upon it! So I did just that, covering the lace with a custom-cut piece of glass. Now the surface is still functional….I can spill and put stuff all over it and still my lace is beautiful.

The pieces seen in this view are: 4 tatted pieces (tatted by me); Teneriffe Lace (2)-upper left and right, Romanian Point Lace, the swan is a piece of Carrickmacross Lace (designed and worked by me), the circular piece is bobbin lace that a friend brought back to me from Belgium while on vacation.

As I mentioned before I am a ‘motorcyclist’—a person who rides a motorcycle. I want to differentiate that I am NOT a ‘biker’. Bikers are rough/tough type people….the kinda folks you might cross to the other side of the street if you meet them. I am a motorcyclist in that I always wear a helmet and safety gear, even it I don’t have to legally.

I have been working to bring over content from my Google Blogger site.

I have added in information as separate ‘pages’ under the PREVIOUS BLOG POSTINGS tab on this website’s front page menu.

I am working to figure out how to enable comments and have the comments show for my blog postings!  If you see a place to comment, consider doing so so that I can see if/how things are working.  Please be patient with me.

This weekend (starting tomorrow for me!) I’m leaving on my motorcycle to travel 350 miles away to go to northeast Iowa for a motorcycle rally.  It is not one of those ‘anything-goes’ type of motorcycle functions.  Instead it is a veeerrry conservative gathering of other people who ride Moto Guzzi (Italian) motorcycles.  This particular rally is the ‘National’ rally so there should be people there from all over the country.  Even though is it a ‘national rally’ there probably will only be about 300 or so people there.  Moto Guzzi motorcycles are quite rare and obscure.  We will ‘camp’ in tents in the city park.  During the day we take motorcycle rides to see the area, coming back to hang out (around campfires) during the evening.  Maybe I’ll take a picture of me in ‘motorcycle mode’ from the event and post here next week.  Of course I will take my little bag of tatting with me.  It goes everywhere with me.  I should have some relaxation time to work on a project.  My husband likes to read and so while he is finding time to read, I shall tat!  The trick is to take a dark-colored project to work on, one that doesn’t show soiling so badly.

This is what I like to make for sympathy cards.

The tatted rose pattern is from one of Mary Konior’s books–possibly the Tatting with Visual Patterns book.

I typed the poem into my computer and copied it onto a cardstock that has flecks of color. That’s why the background appears pinkish.

I glued the rose onto the cardstock.

I am going to call this my first blog post of my newly updated website/blogsite.  I started hosting my website on Google Sites where I tried to have a blog too.  But several people responded that they were unhappy that they were unable to leave comments.  Google Sites did not allow this.  So I decided to split out the blog to a separate site hosted by Google Blogger.  This did allow comments (which I love, by the way!).  However, recently I ran out of space on my Google Site page.  I had wanted to move anyway and try to put my blog and my website back into one site.  So my husband set me up on his own space and encouraged and helped my learn and use WordPress to write and publish my material.  Anything in the computer world is a fairly uphill battle for me, but this weekend, with his help, I did get a good start on this webpage.

I am still planning to keep my old Google Blogger blogsite going for a while, but I would like to consider switching to one/this site.   I will have to ponder how I go about that in time.

So as you may be able to see, this website is still under construction.  I will get my old content moved over as time permits.

A while back I was at a fiber festival/swap meet. A bunch of my lacemaking friends were going so I decided to go too. There were several other fiber enthusiasts there, selling odds & ends of textiles, lace, and such for cheap prices. In fact, I had to make some of the vendors take more money for the treasures I bought from them than they wanted. I really didn’t need more stuff, but I did find a few treasures, including this little pincushion.