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.

To celebrate International Tatting Day, Beth (Left) & I (right) and Grace–the 3 Tatting Amigas of Grand Junction–met at a local coffee shop to ‘Tat in Public’.

Unfortunately, Grace was only there for a short period of time for her ‘coffee break’ & I forgot to get a photo of her.

It’s been so easy to put up my content onto FB & IG that I have realized that I have completely ignored my website.  Since I consider this website as part of my ‘legacy’, I am going to be putting up ‘stuff’ randomly here.  I’ve been having a lot of fun creating memes of tatting and so you’ll see quite a few in the near future.