Bio
TERRY THE TATTER
I learned to tat 12 years ago from a friend who spent 3 hours with me,
left me with a shuttle, ball of thread and a book and moved out of
state. I picked up that shuttle and have rarely put it down tatting 1-3
hours a day. All other crafts disappeared when I saw the beautiful lace
spilling from my fingers.
For the last 10 years I have been teaching beginning through advanced tatting at our local junior college. In 1994 a club formed from former students and I was challenged to learn new patterns and techniques to teach them. I used a simple edging, mirrored, to make an ornament and the group loved it so I went on to using other patterns and finally creating my own until I have now have 60 plus original patterns of covered glass balls, bells, eggs and other shapes.
In 2000 I compiled 26 of these patterns and put together my book, Tatted Ornaments. Since the beginning of the on-line tatting groups, I've honed my skills and techniques and am so grateful to these groups for the advanced techniques learned. I enjoy creating new patterns and seeing what I can do to other patterns to make them uniquely my own and sharing these techniques and patterns with others. I've enjoyed traveling around to other groups inspiring them to create their own patterns.
To see some of these patterns, visit my web site at http://www.terrythetatter.com
Any questions? E-mail me at me@terrythetatter.com
Designing Ornaments:
Become a designer through easy step-by-step
methods. Learn copyright laws; hear about those "golden arches" and
lots of other ideas to make your own "one of a kind" ornaments. Every
step from inception to completed design. There should be time to at least begin
tatting the new design.
Materials List: Size 12 perle cotton, DMC or Anchor, 3-4 shuttles, pencil with eraser, imagination
Pre-requisites/Level: basic tatting skills
Limit: 16 students
Con 'Templating' Change (Beginning Design): Using a published pattern and supplied templates, make changes that create a piece that is strictly your own. To be completed during class, new design from a published pattern.
Materials List: pencil with eraser, creative attitude
Pre-requisites/Level: basic tatting skills, loose
Limit: 16 students
Geometry and Terminology: The Numbers and Letters Behind the Art (Saturday Evening)
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