Palmetto Tat Days 2026
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September 24 - 27, 2026
Ridgecrest Conference Center
Ridgecrest, NC
CALL FOR TEACHERS:
Applications may be submitted using the online form or you may print and fill out the form and submit to teachers@palmettotatters.org. Submissions are due January 11, 2026. Teachers will be selected by the committee on January 17 and announced January 19. Teaser photographs of classes will be posted at that time as well.
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CALL FOR LOGOS:
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Requirements for submissions are detailed on the application form. Applications may be submitted using the online form or you may print and fill out a form scan and submit to teachers@palmettotatters.org. Submissions are due January 11, 2026. Logos will be selected by the committee on January 17 and announced January 19.
ABOUT TAT DAYS
A Bit of History
PTG's Tat Days were initially funded by the Guild's Butterflies Migrating book which is out of print. The first Tat Day was held on April 5, 2003, at the McKissick Museum on the campus of the University of South Carolina. The featured highlight of the event was a juried competition and an in-depth look at how to present tatting. This was the first and only single-day event. Since 2004, Tat Days have increased in attendance, teachers have been recruited globally, and the number of individual classes offered increased.
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As attendance increased, the venues also changed. From three years each at Columbia International University and the White Oak Conference Center in South Carolina, to 11 years at Georgia Baptist Conference Center just outside Toccoa, Georgia, and now our third year at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina. The Guild has hosted participants from multiple states and a half dozen other countries in Europe and North America.
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The Guild does have a YouTube channel where you can see videos from other Tat Days events. There are interviews with various Tatters in the Tattle Tales Interview series while Designing 101 features a number of tatting designers and their individual processes to create tatting patterns.
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During Tat Days 2021, a live-stream interview was held with Georgia Seitz (founder of The Online Tatting Class) by the current owner/operator, Tamie Montgomery. That interview is available to view. Georgia is instrumental in continuing (from 2004 onwards) and growing the PTG Scholarship Fund which allows tatters the opportunity to offset some of the cost to attend Tat Days.