Presenting Mary Maynard's "Tatting: Ring of Flowers"

Ribbonwinners Tatting Patterns & Shuttles by
Georgia Seitz
11227 CR 1760 E
Greenup Illinois 62428-3016 USA
AKTATTER@aol.com
www.georgiaseitz.com

The following is an excerpt from the Book Review for Mary Maynard's "Tatting: Ring of Flowers" by Georgia Seitz 10-20-00.
Copyright 2000

"Poetry in Thread...

The flower patterns and the notecards featured in "Rings of Flowers" remind me greatly of Haiku, a form of Japanese poetry. The poem suggests the beauty of a moment in time captured in but the fewest of words. Mary Maynard's tatted designs "freeze-frame" moments from a garden using but a few pen strokes for greenery and a few stitches in thread.

This is an exciting first book of tatting patterns created by Mary Maynard of Laramie, Wyoming. A left-handed tatter of many years experience, Mary holds a BS in Textiles and Merchandising. In this book she has combined her business acumen and her love of tatting to produce a reference tool for tatters. "

And Mary is sharing some of her patterns with the online tatting class. Here is a page of designs and instructions for several designs:

Close up of the samples prepared by Mary Maynard

Step by step close up of the looping of one picot over the next on a ring:

And here are some samples worked up by JoEllyn Wheeler for us!

Those tatters experimenting with these techniques for the first time may want to contact Mary direct: Mary Maynard
Happy Holidays! AKTATTER@aol.com