"But, really, why does anyone create? You feel a... a restlessness inside, a need to make something new, something no one has ever seen before. You want to add to the beauty and the richness of the world with a gift, an offering that is uniquely yours. It's an act of selfishness and generosity, all rolled into one."

-- Bruce Coville,
The Last Hunt

Friday, June 25, 2010

Calling NM Tatters!

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.

6 comments:

  1. 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...

    Sure hope you can hook up with tatter Sue!
    Fox : )

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  2. 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.

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  3. Fox, let me know any time you're coming here!

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  4. Thanks, Miranda!
    Wow, Ridgewoman and you - both in NM. I should get the ca on the road one of these days!
    Fox : )

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  5. 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?

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  6. I 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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