Tatted Garden of Eatin' (Arnold)

Approximately 33 patterns and 74 pages. Patterns include vegetable, fruit, and garden critter tatting patterns written for shuttle tatters (needle tatters can complete, but you have to understand the techniques being used). All patterns contain written instructions, color-coded diagrams and color photographs. Tutorials show how to do lock joins, slope and roll joins, Catherine Wheel joins, alligator joins, beads on picots and beads on core thread, as well as single shuttle split rings (open ring method). Vegetables include carrots, 3D ear of corn, Christmas pickle, eggplant, okra, onion, pea pods, pumpkins, crookneck summer squash, cherry tomatoes, and a pear tomato. Fruits include applee, cantaloupe, cherries, banana, freestone peach, pear, raspberry, and watermelon. Garden critters are butterflies, dragonflies, inchworms, a snail, and snakes. The skill level for all patterns within this book is intermediate-advanced to advanced. Contains written instruction and diagrams. Lizbeth size 20 thread used throughout. English text. (T609)