Since I worked all day one day last week boiling china berries to send to the Southern Belles in Tennessee, I thought I would post here one of my china berry projects....my little China Berry Turtles. I was yet again at a loss for things to enter in the SC State Fair because I seem to give away everything I tat in the course of a year, so I entered this little project under jewelry. I have already had a peek at what Bonnie G and Pam Esberg have done and their stuff is over the top, so mine is just slow as a turtle.....that fits me ..read more

This is a picture of my tatting table in the living room. See if you can find a rat, an angel, a palmetto tree and a beaded flower. The framed work is Nina Libin's. The tiny white flowers are all Riet Surtel-Smeulders. The palmetto tree is Jane Eborall's. The rat is Ratattouee from Sue Hanson. The picture at the back on the left is my grandmother and some of her work. She was 94 when she passed and the picture on the right was her aunt Flora who was her best friend and year younger. Aunt Flora lacked one month being 100 but this was her Sweet Sixteen picture. The collage is my tatting as well ..read more

This is what I worked on for my entry in the SC State Fair October 2009. It took longer for me to figure it out than it did to make the first and second pair. I didn't like the hole showing so I covered it up with Riet's Daisy Picot. I have since made earrings with just the daisy picots for little girls ..read more

This is the pair of earrings that I worked on for the SC State Fair October 2009 ..read more

This is my deviation of the standard hen and chicks pattern. I let the "eggs" hang loose to give me some flexablity when sewing them onto the elastic so they can stretch when being put on. I used to sew the tatting to the baby socks but a. the baby outgrew the socks quickly or b. the baby got the white socks really stained. So now the tatting can be slipped on and off of any pair of socks ..read more

I have made many of these earrings using cabone rings and doing them in school colors. This is the garnet and black USC earrings ..read more

Pam’s Collage:  Grandma’s Flower Garden Doily                                        Complete 6/28/2017    1. Karey Solomon [bottom left] 2.  Sue Hanson [center] 3.  Thornwell Ladies [middle right] 4.  Riet Surtel-Smeulders [top left] 5.  Bonnie Geiger [top right] 6.  Chocolate Therapy [middle left] 7. Grace Lown [bottom right ..read more

Flower # 3 - The Thornwell Ladies [Right] There is a special group of ladies I call the Thornwell Ladies.  They are ladies who grew up at Thornwell Orphanage in Clinton, SC.  They have always stayed connected through the years with letters, phone calls and going back for Grand Rallies.  They make an effort to get together for good times and then they are there for the other times as well.  I have enjoyed meeting frequently with them to work on the Thornwell Alumni Association database.  We have spend many hours trying to locate alumni and working on putting the next Gr ..read more

Flower # 7 - Grace Lown [Bottom Right] Grace is my special friend. We have been friends for over 40 years. After I moved to Lexington and moved my membership from Congaree Presbyterian Church in Cayce to Lexington Presbyterian Church, I began meeting women in the church.  Because I worked 8 hour rotating shifts, I would visit the different circles.  I met Grace in the morning circle and drew her name at Christmas so for a whole year I was her "Secret Sister" and trying to do little things for her without her knowing who I was.  After it was revealed the next December, I had fou ..read more

Flower #6 - Chocolate Therapy [Middle Left]              Chocolate Therapy was a name given many years ago to a group of folks that met and        are still meeting in 2017 at the Food Court at the Dutch Square Mall to talk and tat and                   eat chocolate of course.   This is a group of folks that basically know how to tat and just like to get together.  They help each other with projects and problems as well as behave as an auxiliary arm for many Palmetto Tatters projects ..read more