Revisiting the Stacked Dimpled Split Ring

I had a lovely email today bringing me back to a technique I taught at last year's Palmetto Tat Days.

I heard from Claudia de Formosa, who's in Argentina. She has two lovely blogs on tatting - one for her own tatting, one for teaching. Both are in Spanish, but her pictures are so very clear that you don't need to know the language to understand them.

Claudia asked me about stacked dimpled split rings. I taught how to make stacked dimpled split rings last year at Palmetto Tat Days 2011, and also mentioned them on my blog.

Claudia didn't get to come to Tat Days, as it's a looonnnggg way from Argentina and really expensive to come that far north. But she's a smart tatter - she figured out the technique by looking at my pictures!

See what Claudia made! Doesn't her bracelet look great?

A test tat from an inspiration

Here's Vanilla Sky, a great new HDT done by TatsKool. She very generously sent me a skein of it to test tat. I've tatted it using Mary Konior's great Large Cross, from Tatting with Visual Patterns. This thread is size 40. Isn't it pretty? Lovely cream, pink, and purple.

And why did TatsKool send me gorgeous thread, free fer nuthin', for a test tat, you ask? Because last year, I sent her pictures from my beach vacation. We spent a week at Indian Rocks Beach, FL, and we had a blast. And this picture, taken by my little cell phone, was TatsKool's inspiration for the thread!




I'm delighted that TatsKool was so inspired. It was a wonderful place - the sunsets were awesome! Here's another sunset picture I took. I use this on my cell phone as the background.

And for an update on the soggy mess around my home - here's a newer video of the bridge near me. It'll be six months until it gets fixed.

Toodles!