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Amazing June Giveaway on InTatters

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I’m so excited to be able to announce this wonderful giveaway for May/June 2010.

Lizbeth thread in 106 Spring Fling
Anchor size 8 pearl cotton col 169
Metallic blue/mauve thread from my stash
Clover shuttle
Test-tube tatting needle holder
Tiger-eye pendant/bead
Key charms
InTatters 2009 Pathtag for all who win.

These will be split into 3 lots for 3 giveaways.

If we get over 25 people eligible I’ll also add in an excellent condition copy of Coats Tatting book No 919.

Then, if we also get 5 New Premium Members I’ll add in a brand new copy of Spitzen-Ideen by Susanne Schwenkem splitting the giveaway pool into 4 lots with some additional threads and beads.

10 New Premium Members and I’ll add in an excellent condition second-hand copy of Mary Konior’s Tatting Patterns (a copy recently sold on eBay for over $60) and split this into 5 giveaways with some additional threads and beads.

How to Enter
You may have noticed a new tab on the navigation bar – Tattivity. This is a measure of your activity on the website. You gain points for doing the following things

* posting in the forums or in the groups
* starting a new thread
* adding events to the calendar
* referring your friends
* leaving or receiving a visitor message
* voting in polls
* giving and receiving reputation points

Yes, that’s right, you can even gain points for receiving reputation and visitor messages without you having to left a finger!

To be entered in the draw, you simply need to have over 100 points by midnight June 30th.

If you gain 500 points or more you’ll get an extra entry.

If you are a premium member on the 30th June, you’ll also get an extra entry.

So, you can get as many as 3 entries into this draw.

Oh and don’t forget to tell people about this – the more people using the site the more points you can get!

Visit InTatters today!

Baking Buttons

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I love these biscuits, they’re cute as a button and so easy too! Perfect to take to your next craft group get-together or guild meeting. They look great dipped in chocolate too :) To make it easier for you I’ve taken photos of every step and given my tips as well.

Ingredients
125g butter
125g caster or icing sugar
1 egg
125g self raising flour
125g plain flour
3 tsp ground cinnamon

Screw top from a bottle of coke or water (washed)
Drinking straw



Instructions

Cream the butter and sugar together. Make sure there’s no lumps of butter. You can sit the mixing bowl in a dish of hot water to help the butter soften but make sure it doesn’t melt.

Add egg and cinnamon and mix thoroughly. No need to pre whip the egg, just drop them straight in.

Add flours and mix to a smooth dough. No need to sift the flour if you’ve brought it from your supermarket – it should be sifted well enough and you’ll be mixing thoroughly enough that you’ll work out any lumps. The one tip here is to add the flour gradually, it gets quite hard to mix towards the end there.

Scoop out enough that a ball will fit into a bottle top. I found this was 2 teaspoons worth of dough. Press the bottle top into the ball of dough to make a depression.

Use a straw to punch out the thread holes – you will probably have to wiggle a bit but the dough should go up into the straw and come out cleanly. If the straw gets too full just push out the collected dough.

Bake for 12-15 mins at 180C in the middle of the oven. You may have to separate into batches. When they’re done place onto an oven tray to cool. Serve with tea on your best china – complete with doilies :)

Half Moon Dreaming

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This pattern started life as a hanky corner in the wonder book The Tatter’s Treasure Chest. I’ve add a chain instead of the edging to turn it into a necklace.

If you make this, I’d love to see the pictures of your results!

Centre Portion

R: 8ds p 6ds p 8ds cl rw
C: 8ds p 8ds p 8ds
R: 8ds join p of previous r, 6ds p 8ds cl rw
C: 6ds Do not RW

Clover
R: 8ds p 6ds p 6ds p 8ds cl
R: 8ds join p of previous r, 6ds p 6ds p 8ds cl
R: 8ds join p of previous r, 6ds p 6ds p 8ds cl rw

C: 6ds RW
R: 8ds join p of previous 6ds p 8ds cl rw
C: 6ds RW

R: 8ds p 8ds p 8ds cl rw
small R: 6ds join to free p of 2nd ring, 6ds, cl rw
R: 8ds join p of adjacent r, 8ds p 8ds cl rw
C: 9ds rw

R: 8ds p 8ds p 8ds cl rw
small R: 6ds join to free p of 1st ring, 6ds, cl rw
R: 8ds join 2nd p of adjacent r, 8ds p 8ds cl rw

C: 6ds RW
R: 8ds p 6ds p 8ds cl rw
C: 6ds RW

Clover
R: 8ds join p of previous r, 6ds p 6ds p 8ds cl
R: 8ds join p of previous r, 6ds p 6ds p 8ds cl
R: 8ds join p of previous r, 6ds p 6ds p 8ds cl rw

C: 6ds join to base of 1st ring

Cut and weave in ends.

Outer Edge

Attach thread to free p of centre ring of clover.

C: 6ds p 6ds p 6ds, join to adjacent r that has 1 free p
C: 6ds p 6ds p 6ds, join to p of next ring
C: 6ds p 6ds p 6ds, join to the joining p of two rings

C: 6ds p 6ds p 6ds p 6ds, join to joining p of two rings

C: 6ds p 6ds p 6ds, join to p of next ring
C: 6ds p 6ds p 6ds, join to p of first ring of clover
C: 6ds p 6ds p 6ds, join to centre p of centre ring of clover

To complete just the centre portion tie and weave in ends here.

To continue on to the chain of the necklace,
SR: 8/8
*C: make first half of the double stitch 5 times, followed by the second half 5 times. Repeat a further 4 times for 50 stitches
SR: 6/6
Repeat from * for desired length, finishing with a ring of 12 stitches instead of the split ring.
Tie and weave in ends.

Attach to start of the outer chain and repeat for the other side, making sure you add in a clasp on the final ring.

NB. If you don’t want to do split rings, you can add extra stitches in their place – tie a slip knot at points where the split ring would be so that the chains keep their shape.

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