This is the glass mat by Mary Konior, it can be found in her book "Tatting with Visual Patterns". It was tatted as I visited the Rocky Mountains with relatives from the UK. I have used a vintage orange thread, Coats size 30. With one shuttle and ball I used the SLT (shoe lace trick) to switch threads at the outer and inner of each arm.
As I neared the final arm I was not looking forward to those joins. I am not very good doing the folded join so I looked up what Mary K would have done. She calls it a Rosette join. Basic movements are to fold the joining picot so that the back is toward you, then twist the picot up and back and join as normal from the front. It worked like charm. It is a great pattern to travel with if you can count to four but sometimes even that gets messed up and I had to retro tat in a few spots.
Below are some of the photos I took with my phone while we were showing our UK guests the Rocky Mountains near my home in Western Canada.
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| Emerald Lake |
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| top of Sulphur Mountain |
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| Lake Louise |
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| Takakkaw Falls |
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| Canoes at Lake Louise |
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| Canoes at Emerald Lake |
This is the glass mat by Mary Konior, it can be found in her book "Tatting with Visual Patterns". It was tatted as I visited the Rocky Mountains with relatives from the UK. I have used a vintage orange thread, Coats size 30. With one shuttle and ball I used the SLT (shoe lace trick) to switch threads at the outer and inner of each arm. 
