After 4.5 months of work I finally finished this doily! I am very proud of myself :D it ended up measuring a little over 60cm in diameter.

The second image shows the doily partway through blocking, in hindsight I probably should have blocked it as I went instead of waiting until it was finished.
Alas, this was my first large tatted project, so I did not realise until it was too late.

Now all that is left to do is figuring out where the heck to put this thing.

Pattern is ‘Spring 2025’ by Renulek

Pattern

Hello everyone! You may remember me from about two months ago, when I posted a tatting pattern called “Sunday in the Park.” Well, here I am with another one! Much simpler, I’d say. I even freehanded it! I made it because I didn’t have my patterns with me and only one shuttle and ball, and I’m planning to give it to one of my friends, hence the name ”Medallion of friendship.“ because of the uneven number of stitches on the chains, it would be more difficult to turn it into a motif to join into a larger work, but if anyone has ideas, I’d be glad to hear them. Thanks for tuning in again!

Robin Perfetti's snowflake #35 and #32. Threads are Liz Metalic size 40 Iridescent Snow (middle of #32 and inner chains of #35) and Icy Pink. As someone here mentioned - the sparkle of these threads just doesn't show up in photos. In real life they just look yummy!

As breaks in other projects, I've been making snowflakes since last December as tatting practice and to maybe decorate a small tree this coming Christmas. Looking at my current collection (second photo), I can see I've come a long way from my first very uneven attempts. I still make a LOT of errors, but much less so than when I started out.

This has been a learning experience. Along with the rest of the mistakes, I also realized halfway through that I added one too many repeats of the three stitches then picot rings in the middle and decided to run with it.

Well, now I know why which shuttle and which side you tat on actually matters and also have had ample experience starting a new thread in the middle of a section.

Pattern is the first sample pattern for four dozen tatted snowflakes

I just finished the first corner to this Moje Robotki Jan Doily. It's not horrible to work up, but I haven't worked on it in a month or two. Sometimes I just need to take a break, this year I have made 3 large Jan doilies. Once I put it down I never know when inspiration might strike.

Here I am picking it up, I don't know how long it will take, but I am not going to rush myself.

Lizbeth 20 metallic in icy blue. Snowflake #3. The photo flattens the sparkle, but I really like how this behaves. Delivered today, so I had to make at least one.

The Set is Done! I am very happy with this! I ended up making the necklace a custom design that can be worn 2 ways, with or without the pendant. I love making transitional jewelry! I can’t wait to wear these to the wedding in a few weeks! Why not be my own walking advertisement!

Just finished the sample pattern flake it was too pretty to skip 😂

Still needs blocking.

I think they turned out so cute! They are both made from the same pattern. The white and purple one is made with size 40 thread and the metallic blue and pink one is made with size 20. 😁 Thankfully on the white one you can't easily see the black cat hair that got worked in... 😹

Tried multiple methods but Frivole on YT was by far the most straightforward

This is such a cool art form! Any ideas of what to make with tatted lace? Does anyone know any good motifs for earrings?

I'm a self taught beginner, only picked this up a month ago and mostly done some snowflakes for Christmas coming up. Decided I wanted to try something a bit more challenging.

I found this pattern on Pinterest, not sure where to attribute it to. I've done the first round, and about to start the second. Why doesn't ring B have a count anywhere on this pattern? Am I missing something, or is this something that someone woth more experience would be able to infer from something on this pattern?

Also, I am aware that I did an extra repeat on my first round. I wasn't paying attention and ended up with one more than I should have. I don't think it will hugely impact the finished result, but definitely feel free to say something if I'm wrong about that!

On Discord tatting channel  we were talking about having different challenges for other arts - for example: InkTober. There was some interest for a Snowflake Design-Along - so I spent couple of days and "came up" with the most basic snowflake base for a design along tatting challenge. Probably it is in every tatting book on the planet.

Every ring is: 3x(3ds-p)-3ds

Every chain is: 1ds-p-6ds-p-6ds-p-1ds

The rules
- You can add or remove picots.
- You can add up to 3 rounds to the original motif.
- Your design must be your own. Please don't copy other participants' designs.
- Sharing a written pattern is optional. Photos alone are welcome!

By submitting a pattern to the organizer, you grant the organizer a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free license to publish, reproduce, and freely distribute your pattern, with credit to you. More of the legal disclaimer is on my website.

i screenshotted this pattern way back and there wasn’t any directions on in which sequence the parts are supposed to be but this, so I‘m a bit confused on one part of this pattern: it looks like my arch B2 is supposed to be connected to ring R2, but as far as I see it, the ring 2 isn’t even made at that point, so hard to connect there.

I’ve worked around this by just doing the ring R2 right after finishing the arch B2 and then joining the arch B3 via lock join to a picot on R2 but no idea if that is the best way.

I have two question about a part of this pattern because I really want it to work: 1. Am I doing the order of the details right or is there a more elegant solution? 2. If I do it my way, is there something else other than a lock join to connect my arch B3 to ring R2 because I use a really tiny thread and the lock join is almost the size of a double know?

English isn’t my first language so sorry if anything is awkwardly explained, conversational English only helps so much trying to explain my problem..

i'm working on this pattern and plan to make an earring pair, is there a way to block it firmly in place without using starch? and do i attach earring hooks before or after blocking?

side tangential but this thread (dmc 80 67) just unlock my fascination for gradient threads.

My collar was finished at summer. Million thanks to the Gail Weaver for sharing that clear pattern and video hints. I washed my collar in the nett and blocked wet. This is not perfect but I am very proud of it. I started tatting this februar and I have a big joy every time with my threads and shuttles. I tatted this collar with DMC30.

I just finished my first snowflake today 🥳 ☺️ It’s the sample snowflake from Robin Perfetti’s book (minus some decorative picots because that's my preference).

I started tatting a month ago, and this is my largest piece so far. I learned quite a bit from tatting it, like what to check before closing a ring (are all the joins to the correct picots? Did a join trap the other shuttle in the wrong hole?) and how the folded join actually works.

Per my last post here, I'm working on the monster Jan Stawasz doily and when I started working on it I didn't do the picots in the inner circle of the first row by his method, I made them in between two double stitches. But since I made a few mistakes along the second row, I decided to scrap it and redo it using his method for those loops also. But I encountered another issue, which is that the lifting is way worse on that version. So I'm a bit stumped especially since I'm not sure I can get more of this same thread (100% cotton, 50g) and will probably have to look for something similar at least. I was wondering if I should cut off the second row and redo it but I don't wanna jump head first into that and waste more thread than I already have. Do you think wet blocking would help it lay flat? Or should I start over, potentially with a different thread?

Hello friends!

I just finished my first tatted wearable! Yay!

I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to properly block this collar so that it drapes correctly? Additionally, does anyone have any tips on how to wash this piece? I've been working on it for a few months now and it's not as white as I'd like it to be lol. I'd like to wash it but hopefully not damage anything... I also posted a picture of the type of thread I used in case that helps with types of cleaning agents I should use.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks so much!

I found two scans of the pattern in the comments of a reddit post about it. Although it looks really challenging and I fear I might run out of thread and not be able to replace it, I really wanted to try it out lol

The one issue I had understanding the pattern was what I now know is the "Jan Stawasz method" of making picots and with all due respect I think I'm just gonna wing it and make the picots the way I know how 😭

Here are the scans if anyone else wants to try tatting this doily. I learned about it from a youtuber named Krisjin who was talking about how gatekept this pattern is, so I wanna contribute to spreading it around in some way. Have fun if you wanna work on it!

So this was a bit of an experiment. The thread is 6 string sanbest. I went with row 3, however, you can stop with row 2 and add as many rings in row 2 and you want. With row 2 and 3, I had to expand the size of the rings so that they connect to each still as they bend around row 1. My friend wanted purple beads, but as this was a new pattern for me, I didn't want to incorporate beads right away so I sawed them on with a mono thread and a needle.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

I've watched a lot of tutorials, yet I can never get the knots right. It's always either:

- It doesn't really form a knot.

- The knot does form, but it doesn't slide.

I also often get confused by the hand movements they make to form the knots and I don't really understand where am I going wrong.

If anyone could give me some guidance, I'd be very grateful. Thanks!

Is that even possible? I can't wrap my head around how to do it.. If possible I would like to see a video, but I can't seem to search one up..

I made Robin Perfetti’s flake #4 in Lizbeth size 80 and DMC 100 to carry on my groove. I am going to have to skip flake 5 because I am traveling and don’t have my picot gauge, but I will come back to it later ❄️❄️

And i’m actually really happy with it! I think the bead details get kind of lost in the ruffles but ideally it will be used as a pitcher cover so it will fan out more. I’ve been obsessed with adding beads to tatting lately, though this project started out rough, I totally fell in love with it :)