Iris Niebach presents good strong traditional tatting patterns in her second book, "Tatting Fantasia 2." She has designed a triangular pattern, Anemone, which she uses as the basic building block for several large and small doilies and lace pieces. Iris explains that this motif lets the tatter build the piece "vertically" and reduces the number of rounds needed for larger pieces. It is a very intriguing concept.

All the lace patterns have full page color photos. The easy to read, numbered diagrams are presented mostly in quarter sections. This paperbound book (8.5" x 8.5" or 22cm square) includes full color instructions for bi-color block tatting, hiding ends by tatting over the tails and the magic thread. There is also a small photo in the abbreviations list showing the use of a thread as a space holder to create the inward facing picot.