I love going to tatting workshops!\u00a0\u00a0 You learn soooooo much.\u00a0 Actually I haven’t been able to go to many tatting workshops in the last few years because I had kids still at home and needed to be there (mostly to protect the house from teenagers)<\/em>.\u00a0 So going to The Tatting Corner Tatting Workshop in Indiana was quite a treat.<\/p>\n

While there, one of the things that I learned 1. Made my heart skip a beat and then 2.\u00a0gave me a sick feeling in my stomach for awhile.\u00a0 What was this, you may ask????\u00a0\u00a0Well,\u00a0 as I was showing a group of tatters at the workshop my ‘Quilt-Inspired Split Ring Tatting’<\/strong> designs, somone said “Oh, there is a new book just out on that”.\u00a0 I learned that the concept for a series of new tatting designs that I have been formulating for over and year and have been physically designing\u00a0furiously for the last several months had JUST BEEN PUBLISHED!!!\u00a0 By this I mean that Handy Hands had just published a 16 oage booklet that featured 4-5 different “Quilt” designs in tatting designed by a tatter named Billie Heisler.\u00a0 This publication was quite the hit at the workshop.\u00a0 From what I could hear, there were 4 copies to be had, and they were all in hot demand.\u00a0\u00a0I quickly contemplated my designs\/books fate…..and decided that no matter what the other book designs looked like, ‘my’ designs were ‘my’ designs and that I had come up with them and had the right to publish them too since I had come\u00a0up with them totally on my own.\u00a0 I did get a chance to take a peek at\u00a0the ‘other’ quilt-tatting book and realized\u00a0that my approach to combining quilting and tatting was\u00a0different!\u00a0 YEAH!!!!\u00a0 I am soooooo glad about that\u00a0my work is\u00a0so\u00a0different. \u00a0I would hate to have people think that I copied\/plaguerized\u00a0 another person’s work.<\/p>\n

I have about\u00a04-5 different approaches to\u00a0tatting designs and techniques of working that are inspired by quilt patterns!!!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In upcoming blog posts, I will attempt to introduce these variations to you.<\/p>\n

Right now I am busy creating illustrated patterns for my “Patchwork Series”.\u00a0 I am also tatting up a few of them, so that they are ready for viewing on the IOLI website in the coming new year.<\/p>\n

My timeline for my Quilt-Inspired Tatting<\/strong> Book<\/strong> is because I will be teaching a course\/class on it at the 2015 IOLI Convention in Iowa City, Iowa–in August.\u00a0\u00a0 So my goal is to have the book(s) ready\/published by then.\u00a0 I have to mentions book(s)–plural, because is looks like I may have enough material to fill 3 books at this time.\u00a0 I have been having soo much fun studying quilt historical \u00a0blocks and then designing them into tatting–split ring tatting to be precise.<\/p>\n

I will fill you in more on my Quilt-Inspired Tatting Book<\/strong> <\/span>as I go along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love going to tatting workshops!\u00a0\u00a0 You learn soooooo much.\u00a0 Actually I haven’t been able to go to many tatting workshops in the last few years because I had kids still at home and needed to be there (mostly to protect the house from teenagers).\u00a0 So going to The Tatting Corner Tatting Workshop in Indiana … Continue reading What I learned at the Tatting Corner Workshop that made my heart skip a beat<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}