For our “Tat Me” game in December 2022, for the Endrucks 1920 Project Group, we received over 100 stars and snowflakes! We love seeing our group enthusiastically engaged! I invite you to read the previous posts: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2024/08/roundup-1-stars-and-snowflakes-for.html https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2024/08/roundup-2-stars-and-snowflakes-for.html and to visit the Facebook album where all models are compiled - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.850439426182885&type=3     In the next picture you can see how I used many of the stars and sn ..read more

In December 2022 we had our first “Tat Me” game in the Fb Endrucks group. It consisted of tatting from a given set of patterns, snowflakes and stars derived from Endrucks patterns E3 and E12. Whosoever tatted the most number of models won the right to have them shown in the cover-pic of our group, from 24th to 31st December. We received over 100 models!! That's awesome!! Many thanks to Krystyna Mura who shared her 3 pdfs for stars and snowflakes derived from pattern E12, and to Muskaan, who designed the heart pattern derived from E3, which I incorporated to obtain a  snowflake. Many ma ..read more

Yes, you read that right: 2022. I'm a little late, aren't I? In December 2022 we had our first “Tat Me” game in the Facebook Endrucks group.  Our idea was to indulge in the seasonal tatting (typically stars and snowflakes), but also spice up the game by including a tatting contest. We liked the formula a lot, so much so that we repeated it in December 2023, but I'll tell you about it in a future post. Now, back to December 2022. The “Tat Me” Game consists of tatting from a given set of patterns, and whosoever tats the most number of models wins the right to have their models as the cov ..read more

Unnatural Rose, I would say! This flower grows from the petals towards the center! The pic below (posted in Fb few days ago) was the first prototype. Then I found a way to make it as if it was a bezel embellishment. This means the pattern can be adapted for brooches or tatted ice drops, any size, just increasing the number of petals and the number of rings tatted for the cabochon (yet to be tried). I designed two patterns, one for the cabochon size 8mm, the other for the cabochon size 6mm, shown in next pic: “Unnatural Rose”  - Link to pdf (two patterns) https://drive.google.com/file/d ..read more

I’m really grateful for private sweet messages, positive comments, and public demonstrations of appreciation of my book. Thank you everyone. I am humbled and flattered. My heartfelt thanks go to my lovely friends, who encouraged and helped me, in particular to Karen and Muskaan who translated the book in English and made it possible to bring it to many more tatters than I had ever imagined.  I almost fainted when I read Anita Barry’s message, in which she informed me of her intention to write a review of my book. Few days after, when I read what she had written, well, I can't find the wor ..read more

I’ve a fascination with 3D flowers tatted with thin thread. A pattern I love is Jeanne Lugert’s rose (I tatted a miniaturized version too - https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2018/01/anonymous.html ). Lately, while exploring possible designs where I can use treble tatting stitches, I found in my notebook a round motif from 3 years ago, for which I haven’t shared the pattern yet, you can see it here: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2021/06/special-note-for-my-dear-email.html. Looking at it with new eyes, I thought the rings with treble tatting stitches would be good for making petals… Well ..read more

When Muskaan and I talked about starting the #TALmeEndrucks in Jan 2023 (see previous posts with label TALmeEndrucks), she mentioned Endrucks's continuous method of climbing out, that she had tried in the E28 doily, and I was really curious to learn it, we both love exploring tatting techniques together. But neither of us had time to face the big challenge to rewrite and test the original pattern at the end of December 2022. When I eventually tatted it, I was very grateful to Muskaan for her incentive, because I discovered the ***magic*** inside the pattern! Actually, during 2023 I tatted it 3 ..read more

Continuing from previous post, roundup for the Jan 2023 Tat-Along in the Fb Endrucks group. The journey wasn’t easy: some tatters ran and helped others, some tatters went at a slower pace but eventually made it. Very few tatters decided to stop at a certain part or (perhaps) didn’t share their finished doily. In any case we would like to sincerely thank all participants for the time, enthusiasm and great motivation they put in our TAL, we are especially proud of some tatters that showed us a terrific improvement. We all have had our ups and downs but also learning how to overcome has been a gr ..read more

Continuing from previous post, roundup for the Jan 2023 Tat-Along in the Fb Endrucks group. Muskaan and I tatted the cover doily too. I tatted the doily in one colour and shared my stepwise pics for where to climb out with split chains, etc., to avoid frequent cutting and hiding. Alongside, Muskaan tatted it in colours and in separate parts. In this way, in our good intentions, anybody in the group could have had the chance to follow either any of us or even switch from one to the other between rounds as they wished. Including the two of us, we had a total of 34 participants (tatters who tatte ..read more

In January 2023 we had our first Tat-Along in the Fb Endrucks group. Endrucks’s 1920 book, ‘Die Schiffchen-Spitszen’, has 44 patterns including a triangular doily on the cover. In 2021 Reiko Akamatsu had already rewritten and diagrammed the cover doily pattern, although she modified and split it into many separate motifs. This is the link to the pattern reworked by Reiko - https://drive.google.com/file/d/10KQwPg8fa4cy5l6P6bt3PIYg7H6GWfVc/view  In spite of the appealing idea to follow the original pattern, worked in one pass, Muskaan and I hadn’t time to write, diagram and prepare it for t ..read more