Tatted Lace
My handmade tatting includes edgings, handkerchiefs, guest towels, collars, cuffs, bookmarks, crosses, baby socks, Christmas tree decorations/ornaments, doilies, and one letter of the alphabet. Tatting, a delicate (but sturdy), old-fashioned lace, is handmade by a knotting method of lace-making using a shuttle and thread. Also shown are embroidery, monograms, white work, and a crazy patchwork quilt (on a pillow). Click on an image to see a larger version and the source of the pattern, if known. These items are not for sale, but I plan to add new tatted items for sale in my Etsy shop soon.
"The message of a lace handkerchief floating to a gentleman's feet is not the same as that
of a wad of Kleenex thudding to the floor."
--Miss Manners (Judith Martin)
"The greatest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred." --George Bernard Shaw
"People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which [even] the most insignificant success is achieved."
--Anne Sullivan (Helen Keller's teacher)
"Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee." --John Donne (1572-1631), from "The Triple Foole"
"He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors." --Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned." --Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." --Plutarch (46? to c. 120 A.D.)
"Every person of learning is finally his own teacher." --Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." --Albert Einstein
"Reade not to contradict and confute; nor to beleeve and take for granted;
nor to find talke and discourse; but to weigh and consider."
--Francis Bacon (1561-1626), in "Of Studies," in The Essayes, or Counsels Civill & Morall
"There is no learned man but will confess that he hath much profited by reading controversies -- his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds more firmly established. All controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true."
--John Milton (1608-1674)
"Appreciate an occasional mistake, for it may well become a path to discovery." --Unknown
"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." --Sophocles (ca. 495-406 B.C.)
"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." --George E. Woodberry
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." --George Eliot
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." --George Santayana
"The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice may distort it; but in the end, there it is."
--Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"How frail is the heart! How dim is human foresight! We behold the gilded bait of temptation, and know not until taught by experience, that the admission of one errour is but the introduction of calamity. One mistake imperceptibly leads to another -- but the consequences of the whole bursting suddenly on the devoted head of an unfortunate wanderer, becomes intolerable."
--William Hill Brown, in The Power of Sympathy (1789)
"We must say of ourselves that we are evil, have been evil, and unhappily I must add, shall be also in the future.
Nobody can deliver himself. Someone must stretch out a hand to lift him up." --Seneca
"If any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man,
he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright."
--Martin Luther (1483-1546)
