2004 TAT DAY Teacher

Karen Bovard of Nebraska

Email: kbovard@creighton.edu
Website: www.creighton.edu/~kbovard/shuttle.html

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Bio

Marital Status
Married (17+ years to George Bovard); two children--a girl (Caitlin) aged 11 and a boy (Billy) aged 7 years old.

Occupation
I work 3/4 time as an Electron Microscopy Technologist in the Department of Pathology at St. Joseph Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska (been there 17 years).

Tatting History
I have been tatting for about 20 years---taught the basics by my grandmother and then self-taught beyond that.

Tatting Interests
I have tatted alot of basic tatting patterns in the past and though I still love to tat article, I am currently fascinated by advanced tatting techniques, design elements, history of tatting especially evolution of tatting techniques.

Other Needlecraft Interests
Knitting, embroidery, macrame, sewing (including tailoring and heirloom sewing), cross-stitch, embroidery.

Future Projects
Learning to lace knit, identification of lace, and to do as many lace techniques as possible. (Will someday learn bobbin lacing but can't commit to it at this time)

Other Passions
Motorcycling--especially long-distance touring/camping on European motorcycles (especially Moto Guzzi's--hence the address of the Bovard Homepage). Children *always* go along in a double-wide sidecar (see George's Motorcycle Page). We (George and I) like to collect and ride unique (not rare) European motorcycles (I break them--George fixes them!) I teach motorcycle safety classes in the summers when not motorcycling myself. I'm usually not satisfied until the family takes at least a one-week long motorcycling/camping trip each year!

Lace Club Affiliations
Member of the ShuttleBugs Tatting Club of Omaha, IOLI (International Old Lacers), and the Ring of Tatters.

Long Class: Mignonnette Pouches

Copyright by Karen Bovard

Pre-requisites/Level: New Intermediate to Advanced The feature use of mignonnette tatting is to create squares that resemble crochetted granny squares. Then the squares are tatted together using split ring technique but I use a needle as a replacement for one of the shuttles to facilitate the joins easier. The flap of the pouch is a manipulation of mignonnette technique to learn to decrease rows and create a triangular shape. I used size 20 thread and would not recommend anything smaller.

Short class: Chatelaine style attachment chains

This class features several techniques to produce tatted chains to attach favorite tatting gadgets and tools to a chatelaine or some other piece. Karen will teach how to use jump rings and clasps with tatting and how to adapt an attachment chain for use in various configurations.

Copyright by Karen Bovard

Pre-requisites/Level: New Intermediate to Advanced Techniques taught will include but are not limited to: Various forms of Pearl Chains Twisted Stitch Ric-Rac/Zig-Zag/Sets of Stitches/Lattice Tatting Variations of Split Ring including Interwoven Split Ring Inside-Stitch Chain Hybrid chain of Set of Stitches combined with Pearl Tatting

Samples of teacher’s work:

On which she will be riding to get to TAT DAY 2004! GO KAREN!

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