Dear tatting friends, thank you all for your nice comments on the new book, comments are always much appreciated. The new book "Fantasia 6" will be available within some days. For all of you, who are new, here are the links of where you can buy the new book and also all my other books: USA, Canada and rest of the world: www.lacis.comGermany and rest of Europe: www.barbara-fay.deItalia: www.tombolodisegni.itUSA: www.hhtatting.com and www.tattingcorner.comThere are also others who sell the books. I thank you all for your interest in the book and I'm sure you will enjoy it, Iris ..read more

Dear tatting friends, My new book is ready!!! Some of you have suggested me to invent easy patterns. I have given it much consideration and realized that modern tatting cannot any more be done without the techniques invented in the last decades. For example, if we compare tatting with knitting or crocheting, we see that the latter have a much larger number of techniques. In my opinion, even a beginner must learn all these new techniques, because each of them gives an interesting sign to the modern tatting patterns, which are not any more comparable with the old ones. I have spent a long time d ..read more

I ridid some of the yewellery of my book "Just for fun", and I worked also some new ones: have a look at them ..read more

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Dear tatting friends, the book is now available at Lacis Lace Museum I wish you all happy Cristmas days ..read more

When I was years ago invited to teach at Palmetto tatters days, the first person I met while going from the sleeping room through the garden to the classroom, was Sherry Townsend, an eccentric lady with a lot of red long curled hair and very colored clothes. She saw me and said to me: you are Iris. From that moment on we became friends and she has become the test tatter for my books, a work she seems to enjoy a lot. So also for the new book she has tested all my butterflies and given me precious suggestions to make the book the most perfect possible. Thank you, Sherry, I hope we will have an o ..read more

My tattingfriends, What do you think about a Christmastree like this? The butterflybook is ready for you to buy for Christmas. Happy tatting ..read more

Dear tattingfriends, My butterfly book is nearly ready, my test tatter is testing the last butterfly!!! A little picture for "entrance":Butterflies, flowers and tatting design will be the class titles I will teach from 23rd to 29th of January 2017 in Berkeley at Lacismuseum http://lacismuseum.org/classes/ Dead line for subscription is 31st Oktober, so you are in time to subscribe!!! I would like to meet a lot of you ..read more

I have eventually startet to work on the book I was long time thinking and procrastinating because of the complexity of the descriptions. Therefore I will publish - with the help of my husband and daughters - tutorials for learning the various techniques. These techniques are all included in the flowers and leaves, on which are the tutorials. These exercises will make the realisation of the butterflies much easier ..read more

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