or well, pruning if you want to be too technical! But imagine,  I snipped these from one potted plant and there were still so many twigs and leaves left!  Here's how it looked exactly one month back (second last pic) - https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2024/04/snapshots.html I call that a harvest, LOL I had gone to take only a couple of leaves for the hash brown and we decided to give the plant a trim to further the growth. This plant has given us so much pleasure, aroma, and herbs ..read more

 Jan to March we refrained from organising any game of the month in our FB group. Both Ninetta and I needed a long break to attend to other tasks. Quite a bit of work is involved in holding a game which is not always visible.  Instead we asked members to display their Endrucksian Tatting (ET) by taking a collective pic(s) of all their Endrucks' works done thus far. The collage they sent would be showcased as the group cover for a few days.  We started with Ninetta's exquisite collage, but the images below are not in sequence. Several members have already gifted away most of thei ..read more

I am getting so forgetful or I simply jump on to the next task/project without taking the time to blog. While scrolling through albums in our Endrucks FB group looking for some projects, it struck me that I have yet to share my 2nd Endrucksian Tatting (ET) collage. The first was shared here - https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2024/02/endrucksian-links.html This time I chose many snowflakes and doilies/coasters with only a sprinkling of edgings. Many are multiples of the same pattern, tweaking the design to lay flat or try out different climbing out paths, etc. It was used as ..read more

Early this month I was approached by a lady, Beata S, to help with a bracelet pattern. She showed me a pic and I immediately thought of a single shuttle pattern. However, the rings were so clearly overlapping, that it created some confusion and I veered towards interlaced split rings. That I was seeing the image on a small screen didn't help either. I can't show that pic for obvious reasons, I asked my PIC Ninetta for confirmation and she quickly came back with a couple of WIP pics and it was such a relief.  This bracelet is almost as basic as they come, quick to tat up, and a great way t ..read more

 no excuse to not decorate!!! Check out the diversity of decorative or ornamental picots in tatting!  This collage is a small glimpse into way more picot types than we would ever use, or use sparingly. Yet it is a pity they get glossed over. Now we have no excuse to skip them, when visual models are laid out in this pdf titled DECORATIVE  PICOTS  IN  TATTING - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D6l4gQWeGu1Se1ZXAhP2vWLQMd4lfzMJ/view It can act as a quick reference to make our choices. Backstory - It started with Net Best's upcoming book ' Six T's of Shuttle Tatting ..read more

 Today felt good and I was energized enough to take photos of some of our plants. Some are recent, others have stayed with us for a couple years. Hubby has added so many pots and plants that our balcony is flourishing with flora after a long bleak winter. He has placed the smaller pots on two adjoining larger pots for a tiered effect!   Hubby bought 5 Portulaca plants in red to plant in a specially bought flattish pot. There appear to be two varieties; the others haven't bloomed yet. He had asked for the 10 o'clock ones, but I believe they could be a mix of 9 and 10 o'clock.   W ..read more

 A day early, but we love our tatting year round, don't we?! So, keep your tatting tools and materials ready, choose your pattern, friends, and location, and have a blast with chocolate, tea, and chatting!!! This is such a quick and fun medallion from Rebecca Jones' 'The Complete Book of Tatting', Fig. 123. Tatted in Lizbeth size 20, with half-closed rings (HCR) instead of chains or bare thread to bridge the distance. A single-shuttle pattern obviously. TIP: Notice how the top and top right cords appear more pointed than the rest? It shows how you can change the curve by changing how f ..read more

A bit of mixed media card for my March 2024 Small Decorations entry. My heartfelt thanks to splocik for graciously accepting the earring I made in February and I hope this card meets the requirements of the game.  This is where it all started with a counting error I frequently make, despite my cautious counting! Notice that one daisy has an extra petal. Pattern for the classic daisy is from 'The Complete Book of Tatting' by Rebecca Jones  (Fig. 122 page 47, 2011). Worked in Olympus size 40 (equivalent to Lizbeth size 20).   Elgiva Nicholls calls this medallion a Classic D ..read more

 Editing the book, 'The Six T's of Shuttle Tatting' is creating opportunities to try out exciting techniques and effects, long in my to-try list. And learning a Lot in the process. The author, Net Best, had created one glossary for her book, and another more comprehensive glossary for her group and possibly for later digitization. We decided to combine both to make the glossary as updated as possible, which was her main goal. This also means we have to add missing sampler images. I have reached out to several of my tatting friends to contribute some specific pics (with due credit), and so ..read more

 You might remember that we had created categorised Directories of derivatives from Endrucks' patterns and I shared links as and when they were ready. Now all derivatives are removed from the main EP doc which contains mainly the 44 reworked originals in pdf format.  Besides this trimming, we also created a Spreading the Word doc so that keeping it updated, along with good sized pics, would be easy. Check out how members have spread word of the book or Project through teaching, articles, exhibitions, etc. And then there are the games we hold in our FB group. All links to these - from ..read more