Tatting Chic

Congratulations to my friend, Tatting Chic!  She is celebrating her Two Year Blogoversary!  As part of her celebration, she is having a Giveaway!  Hop on over to her blog and post for your chance to win a lovely book on tatting, a tatting shuttle and some beautiful thread!  Here is a wonderful opportunity to learn to tat!
Many moons ago I learned to tat.  Gosh!  It takes a lot of patience, but it's fun!  Unlike knitting and crochet, you can't just pull the thread and unravel to the place where you made your "oops!".  The delicate lace-like quality of tatting is truly unique.  Check out an earlier post of mine to see what an amazing 100 year-old woman who lives near me tatted!  I have one of her delicate Christmas ornaments - Lucky me!  Here is another one of her ornaments (sitting amidst my collection of Pot Bellys) on my library shelf!

Amazing Tatting!

I was in the gift shop of one of our local retirement communities when I discovered some ornaments that were tatted by a resident.  The tatting is beautiful, but the amazing thing is that the woman who tatted the ornaments, Ella Ruth, will be 100 years old this year!
Now...  where did I put my tatting shuttle???!!!