Bøger af Karen Bovard

This is THE book on Split Ring Tatting that the tatting world has been waiting for!!! This book will teach you not only how to work Split Ring Tatting but it will give you an understanding of the uniqueness of the technique, how to manipulate it, and various ways to work it. Learn how to create Take Off Rings and utilize joins to create unique, contemporary designs never before offered. There are NO chains in this book.....only rings! If you like how geometric and patterned tatting patterns are, you will enjoy the patterns in this book. This book could be alternatively titled: Fun with Geometrics. There are 55 designs and 37 pages of patterns in this 65 page book.

In MORE Fun with Split Ring Tatting, Karen Bovard (The ShuttleSmith) has created a totally new look and approach to tatting using Split Ring Tatting technique. The designs are modern and focus on several themes: Use of multiple colors in one piece, Celtic inspired designs; and Lace-Tessellation inspired designs (free math lesson included). An introductory chapter is devoted to understanding how to read/use the Visual Patterns as well as tips for achieving Split Ring Tatting success. The end goal is to have 'Fun'! An entire chapter and tutorial is included for Needle Tatters: How to create Split Rings & Take-Off Rings using Needle Tatting Technique. This 63 page book features over 400 images: full-color photographs of finished pieces, working-path diagrams, additional design & color ideas, and over 45 visual (diagrammatic, color-coded) patterns that give even the novice tatter explicit information to execute these unique designs. Patterns can be easily manipulated to create bookmarks, edgings, pouches, etc in various sizes and shapes.

Go back to elementary school and relearn the joy of creating Block Alphabet Letters & Numbers, this time in Split Ring Tatting Technique. This book features 2 complete, different block alphabet letters & numbers, one very simple and quick to make, the other more eloquent with serif attributes. In addition, there are 11 patterns for frames to accentuate and use your letters &/or numbers to create memorable gifts. Included in these frames is an elegant frame that mimics filet crochet nameplates. This 42 page book features 81 illustrated patterns in full-color.

QUILT-INSPIRED DESIGNS IN SPLIT RING TATTING gives today's tatters a whole new approach to tatting! Not only are these designs created completely of rings: Regular, Split, & Take-Off Rings (no chains); but they allow tatters to explore the world of quilting--a world of repetition, symmetry and color. The 38 patterns/designs in this 47 page book are based upon traditional quilt patterns including: Grandmothers Flower Garden, Flying Geese (3 designs), Eight-Pointed Star, Log Cabin, Diamond-Based (16 designs), Twist, Granny Square, Pinwheel-Based (7 designs), Dominos & Squares, Card Trick, Quilted Heart, Woven Ribbons, Wreath, Danish Heart, Sienna Star. An additional 24 illustrations give inspiration for 'future designs', 'design ideas' & 'color options'.

In Patchwork Quilt Blocks in Split Ring Tatting, Karen Bovard/The ShuttleSmith provides tatters a delightful way to explore color, symmetry & repetition while learning about traditional quilt block patterns. Enjoy quilting/tatting using the myriad colors of the threads we have available today without having to invest hundreds of dollars in a fabric stash. There are 43 historical, traditional Patchwork Quilt Block designs in this 65 page, full-color book. Comprehensive illustrated patterns (featuring color-coded, full-color diagrams) are utilized to get quick, yet thorough working details. Five pages of this book are devoted to not only giving the tatter an understanding of how to utilize The ShuttleSmith's illustrated patterns, but also gives several construction tips/techniques. Illustrations are provided that show the secondary designs that can be created by repeating the primary design of the individual Patchwork Quilt Block. Quilting (like tatting) is based upon repetition and symmetry--both concepts are soothing in what can seem like a chaotic world. Patchwork Quilt Blocks in Split Ring Tatting allows tatters to venture into a new world...that of COLOR. Never before have we as tatters had so many luscious colors of thread to choose from. One thread line features over 160 colors in the many sizes of thread that tatters use. It seems to me that those thread colors were just waiting for a book of designs such as supplied by quilt-inspired patterns--the variegated threads even mimic printed fabric. All the designs in this book are based on traditional, historic quilt blocks and look like Patchwork Blocks in that the finished piece is square. The color blocks are made of stacked, 'square rings' (4-4-4-4) creating shapes that mimic pieces of fabric quilts: squares, triangles. However, unlike pieced fabric, more complex shapes can be tatted as one round. Hallmarks of patchwork quilts is that the block is almost always square (as are the designs in this book) and the use of repeating blocks to produce an overall, secondary pattern. Additional illustrations are included comprised of 4 repeats of the basic patchwork block unit, showing the secondary pattern for that traditional Patchwork Quilt Block. If the original patchwork block has any degree of assymmetry, there may be more examples of a secondary design presented.