Fringe Element Tatters

Please note that there has been a change of date for The Fringe Element Tatters annual tatting weekend in Cambridge, Ontario.  It will now be Friday September 28 and Saturday September 29, 2012.   Our theme this year is “Knotty Tatters” and promises to be a lot of fun.

There is a lot of “Hanky Panky” going on with the current exchange.

February might be a traditional month for Valentines, but the weekend of April 14 – 15, 2012 will be full of hearts.  The Finger Lakes Tatting Group are hosting their annual tatting seminar in Lodi, New York.   Click here for their registration form or go to the Tat Days page of our website for details.

And the following weekend April 20 – 21, 2012 the ShuttleBirds are “Tatting on the Wild Side” in Spokane, Washington.  Check their website www.shuttlebirds.com for registration information.

The Palmetto Tatters www.palmettotatters.org are celebrating their 10th Anniversary Tat Days on September 7 – 8, 2012 in Toccoa, Georgia with a “Blast from the Past” !

We hope that you support these groups by joining the fantastic weekends they have planned.

We are starting to plan for next September and would appreciate your comments – whether or not you were able to attend this year’s event.  2011 – Fringe Survey indicates the type of feedback we are looking for … or just email your comments to FringeTatters@gmail.com

Our big Tatting Weekend might be over for this year, but the tatting continues. 

As you turned the calendar today to September, we hope that you thought “Great … the Fringe Tatting Weekend is just around the corner!  I’d better make sure that I’ve sent in my Registration Form.”

The tatting weekend is Friday September 23 – Saturday Septmeber 24, 2011 in Cambridge, Ontario - and the deadline for registration is September 9.

If you’re having difficulty deciding which classes to choose, check out  our Tat Days  page for photos of the projects. 

Please use the registration form to indicate if you would like extra kits for the classes you are taking – or even for the ones that you can’t fit into your schedule.   Our teachers are gearing up, but need to know how many kits to prepare.  

Karey is particularly excited to have found some really large marbles for her marble cosy class.  She’ll have kits (marble plus thread plus pre-strung beads) for a 25mm marble ($5), kits for a larger 35mm marble ($8), kits for an even larger 42mm marble ($10).  She’s even found 50mm marbles ($6 marble only).   Karey notes that these larger marbles are really hard to find  and since it’s important to use the exact  bead size quoted in order to get the pattern to work properly, people really do need the kit.

We’re also thrilled to invite you to a Tatting Drop-In at London’s  Carson Library the Saturday afternoon before our big weekend.   See our Tatting DropIns page for details.

Looking forward to seeing you soon.

The Fringe

Can’t wait for September ?

We’ve just received confirmation that we have the Community Room of Eatonville Library, Etobicoke for our Tatting Drop-In this coming Sunday June 5, 2011 from 2:00 until 4:30 pm.  We hope that you can join us.

Eatonville Library is conveniently located just east of the 427 at the south-east corner of Burnhamthorpe and East Mall with good access by car and public transit. See http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=LIB041 for directions.

It will be interesting to see what you are currently working on, as well as any treasures you’ve discovered since we last met.  

And of course, there’s lot of news to share about our September Tatting Weekend!

The wait is over! 

Here is the Registration Form for the Fringe’s “Fall Into Tatting” Weekend September 23 – 24, 2011.  This year it’s all about “My Favourite Things”.

We hope that you will join us!

We’d like to thank all of you who stopped by our display at Gathering Threads in London May 13-14.  Over the 2 days, Carlene, Deana, Ellan, Lorraine, Margaret, Nancy, Robert, Sylvia & Susan took turns demonstrating both shuttle and needle tatting, and handed out lots of membership hearts to inspire new tatters.  It was encouraging to see how quickly some of you got the knot to “flip”.  We heard many wonderful memories of tatted treasures from your ancestors. 

One story in particular caught our attention, as it relates to the daunting task of starting that BIG project.  You know – the one that will take months and months – possibly years to complete. 

In this case, the grandfather was the tatter in the family.  He started out tatting some coasters.  After a while he had enough to join them together into placements.  He continued tatting and soon had enough to make a table runner.  Finally, after adding a few more coasters and placements he had enough for a table cloth! 

So by breaking the BIG project into small manageable sections he was able to complete the task … plus use and enjoy the smaller coasters, placemats and runners along the way.

Maybe there is hope after all!

London, Ontario is the place to be next weekend for “Gathering Threads” – a multi-disciplinary fibre event organized by the Canadian Embroiderers’ Guild (London) to celebrate their 40th anniversary.    

Hope to see you there.
 
The Fringe

It’s official – our next  “Tatting Drop In” is scheduled for Sunday April 17  from 2:00 – 4:30 pm in the Community Room of the Eatonville Library in the west end of Toronto, Ontario. 

Everyone is welcome !

Eatonville Library is located just east of the 427 at the south-east corner of Burnhamthorpe and East Mall. See http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=LIB041 for directions.