This summer I will celebrate my 50th anniversary of teaching myself to tat! I could already knit and crochet; indeed, I had been fascinated with thread and yarn since childhood, but this was so different and so much fun. Way back then, I had access to very few patterns, so before long, I was tinkering around with making up my own. I kept on designing since tatting with thread is such a good medium for my twin drives of creating and problem solving. I love learning new techniques since they broaden the scope of what I can make or how to make it. Meanwhile, I developed a fascination with antique patterns, too. Along the way, I had patterns published in Workbasket and Tatting Times and have self-published several books. I have taught numerous times at Palmetto Tat Days and Finger Lakes Tatting Seminar. I live in Greensboro, NC, not far from where I grew up. I am retired from working as a medical technologist in a hospital laboratory.
