Almost Done

It dawned upon me that I started this project more than two years ago.  I can feel a sense of great relief now, knowing that it is coming almost to the end. Here is a peek at what it is all about.

They are snowflakes for my new book.This is the longest tatting project that I have worked on.  The other thing that is taking much longer is a crochet project, and there is still no light at the end of the tunnel for that one.  One of the reasons that it took that long may be because I wanted to come up with patterns that uses only the basic techniques of tatting.  And by that, I mean only double stitches, regular rings and chains, regular joins and shuttle joins.  Most of the patterns are two shuttle patterns which I would consider one of the basics of tatting.

A group of wonderful test-tatters have been working together with me on this project.  Without them, I know this would have taken  much longer.  Thank you my testers.