Tatting Friends

I know, tatting is rare and finding a friend who loves tatting as well is even harder. Oh, to have someone to share a new pattern with or to rejoice with when you learn a new technique or think you've found a unique way to make tatting easier. Maybe I should create an ad asking someone to be my tatting friend. I could offer free lessons to them, share my favorite tatting websites and stores and especially my favorite tatting books and DVDs. We could meet and tat through the cold winter and take day trips to craft fairs where we could have our own table or check out the work of other tatters and expand our circle of tatting friends. We could offer classes together in church basements, craft stores and maybe even visit some senior centers and teach some fine women how to tat. Maybe they would teach us to crochet in return. That would be a good idea ~ a needlework coop where talented needle women and men could meet and teach each other a new craft or give a demonstration to see if there is interest in learning one. Maybe finding a tatting friend won't be so hard after all. Thank the Lord for tatting. I can't imagine how many calories I haven't eaten because I didn't want to get anything on the tatting project that I am working on at the time. A new diet craze! ~ maybe.............