I don't know about you, but I feel awfully lonely sometimes as a tatter. All the other tatters I know are online friends; I don't know anybody else "in person".
I've searched for local tatting/ lace groups. There is a lace guild, and they do say they welcome tatters, but I've looked at their calendar of events, and it's pretty much all about bobbin lace. I have nothing against bobbin lace, but since it's not a craft I've taken up yet, it doesn't sound like these meetings would do much for me.
I know of two other tatters in New Mexico: Ridgewoman and Quayceetatter, but I haven't met either of them because they're both kind of far away. So imagine my thrill when I read Is'Dihara's post on the Piecework Magazine winners, and one of the runners-up is a tatter from Albuquerque! Her name is Sue Peterson. Congratulations, Sue!
Sue, or any other tatters in or near Albuquerque, if you're reading this, I'd love to meet for a tatting show-and-tell.
Didn't realize you lived in NM - after NYC, where my daughter and family live, this is my favourite place in the US to visit. Maybe I will have to plan a tatter's get-away up to Albuquerque! Haven't been there is many years...
ReplyDeleteSure hope you can hook up with tatter Sue!
Fox : )
I had that same problem here when I started tatting. We have a lace guild & at the time it was almost exclusively bobbinlacers. There's a nice mix now of bobbinlacers, knitters, and tatters. Still not too many heavily into tatting but I've offered enough classes that they feel more comfortable with it now. There is a tatting group about an hour away from me that meets once a month but I haven't been able to make it there for months now.
ReplyDeleteFox, let me know any time you're coming here!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Miranda!
ReplyDeleteWow, Ridgewoman and you - both in NM. I should get the ca on the road one of these days!
Fox : )
I'm just starting to tat and I'd love to get together. I live in the East Mtns. I see this post is several years old, but have you found others since you wrote this?
ReplyDeleteI am just starting to tat and would love to find others who do this. I know this post is several years old, but have you found others to tat with? I live in East Mtns but find myself in ABQ often.
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