Georgia's Heart

I've been taking some classes, online tatting classes. My teacher is Georgia Seitz and she leads the classes, coordinates guest teachers, provides patterns, teases us with eye candy, distributes the weeks lesson, updates the website and so much more.

This heart is from last week's class and is the logo from her website, The Online Tatting Class.  It can also be found in Book 4 of her Ribbonwinners series, "Tatting on the Edge... and Beyond."

I tatted this with DMC Christmas Red size 80 thread and it fits nicely on one of my crochet hearts.

Remember that International Tatting Day takes place on Friday April 1, 2016.  I've heard that Chocolate goes good with tatting but any treat would be nice.

So make plans now to tat with a buddy that day or tat in public and share the art of tatting to others. The world can always use another tatter.

Mixed Media

In honor of Valentines Day, I give you some hearts. There are four different tatted hearts and four identical crochet hearts.

I have made these small crochet pineapple heart sachets for many years and given to my girlfriends on Valentine's Day. They are a modified pattern from an old White Crochet magazine.  I create two pineapple motifs and lace together with ribbon. A small soap can be inserted or a bag of lavender. You could also fill with fiber filling and create a pincushion.  They make up quickly and I now add some tatting to the top to make them my own.

The tatted hearts are as follows:
Starting at 12:00 o'clock is the Sweet Heart Valentine by Maria Lenuta "MaryLena" Pop.  This is a pattern provided by the online tatting class. I created this with one shuttle only. It is similar to ankars tatting.
At 3:00 o'clock is  heart by Agnieszka Dreker and a link to the pattern is here. 
At 6:00 o'clock is a pattern by Eileen Stafford, I made this in Hakelgarn 20 and the pattern is available here.
At 9:00 o'clock is a tatted heart made from a corner vintage pattern,  I spoke about on the blog here.