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Summary: Tatting with Anne Orr
Review: I am relatively new to tatting and enjoy Orr's work enormously. Her patterns are creative and stunning. The directions are clear as are the pictures. Dover (the Publisher) seems to have assembled her previously published patterns into a wonderfully cohesive whole. Dover also took care to renumber the projects - so it reads as a book, rather than an assembly of disparate parts. In short, I recomend this book to tatters as a great place for ideas and projects. It is probably not the best first timer tatting book as the instructions are sparse.
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Summary: Tatting with Anne Orr
Review: I am relatively new to tatting and enjoy Orr's work enormously. Her patterns are creative and stunning. The directions are clear as are the pictures. Dover (the Publisher) seems to have assembled her previously published patterns into a wonderfully cohesive whole. Dover also took care to renumber the projects - so it reads as a book, rather than an assembly of disparate parts. In short, I recomend this book to tatters as a great place for ideas and projects. It is probably not the best first timer tatting book as the instructions are sparse.
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Summary: "Old" patterns
Review: I like this pattern book a lot. It has lots of wonderful doilies and some "wearables" like baby caps and collars in it, lots and lots of motives and edgings,...
The only drawback is that all patterns are written in long hand notation, which is difficult to read sometimes, but I do re-write my patterns anyway so I can write into them and take them with me when I "travel" (e.g. when I move into another room after my 2 year old *lol*, or when I visit my parents and don't want stains/creases on/in the book).
There's really plenty of wonderful patterns in this book and it's definitely worth the few dollars. I have more expensive tatting books that have not even half the ammount of patterns in it and I have to say sometimes quantity is better than quality *lol* but in this book you get it all :-)
Just a quick note though: this book doesn't use the "modern techniques" like split rings, split chains, scmr's etc. but you could certainly eliminate a lot of "cut and ties" when you "rewrite the patterns for yourself. Also, some patterns don't state all too clearly when and how to turn/rotate your item and when to change shuttles (when you use two) but there's a picture for every pattern (black and white) so you can usually tell by the photo how the finished piece ought to look like and work out how to "rotate, etc" it.
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Summary: More than 100 designs, mostly for beginners
Review: Most of the patterns featured in this book are at the beginning tatting level: there are more than 40 medallions and more than 40 edgings. Some of the patterns are very unusual (triangular motifs) and all of them come in varying shapes and sizes, especially the edgings, which range from narrow to very wide. The other designs consist of four round doilies, several rectangular mats, a few patterns involving tatting attached to linen, two baby bonnets, baby booties, a luncheon set and a few collars/yokes. All of the patterns are written in shorthand. Though they have a definite old-fashioned look, the patterns would be a good addition to any tatter's library.
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