Please don't get too excited by the golden threading on the ribbon! I tried to keep it as dull as possible, by folding in the shiny side of the synthetic silk.

This is mostly money saving and recycling in action at the same time. I needed some tulle fabric, and I was able to get a pink table-skirt for basically nothing.

I spent some time on removing the seams. The most challenging part was the two layers of tulle sewn together. I nicked the material in one or two places, but after spending some extra time on it, I finished the task successfully.
So now, I am able to proceed with a project that might be a tad too exciting for this community.

I've been working on a project that I'd finally like to share more widely.

TattingCAD is a pattern design tool specifically made for needle and shuttle tatting.

I started this because general-purpose drawing programs aren't really designed for tatting. Rings, chains, picots and joins have their own logic, and designing patterns with arbitrary lines and shapes can be unnecessarily tedious.

You can design patterns using actual tatting elements, work with rings, chains, split rings, picots, joins and beads, generate written notation from your diagram, and switch between schematic and realistic rendering.

Version 1.4.0 is now available, and this is the version I'm finally confident enough to introduce more widely.

A note about the development: TattingCAD was built with AI coding assistance. I'm a former game designer and crafter, not a software developer. I handled the design, specifications and development direction, working with AI through iterative sessions.

A few practical details:

• Free, and will stay free.
• No account, cloud services or trackers.
• Your patterns and settings stay on your device.
• Open source under the MIT license.

This is a fairly specialized tool, so feedback from fellow tatters is particularly valuable. Whether you're a shuttle or needle tatter, beginner or experienced designer, feedback about usability, missing features or things that don't behave as expected is welcome. If you try it, I'd particularly like to know whether the design workflow makes sense to someone who isn't accustomed to CAD software.

Download: GitHub 1.4 Release
Website and FAQ: FAQ

Bug reports can go through GitHub Issues or even here in the comments if it's easier.
**Other thoughts and suggestions are welcome too! **

If you'd like to support continued development, there's a Ko-fi link on the website/GitHub. Completely optional, of course.

I followed this video.
My hat is made from one roll/skein.
If I had more material I would've added about 1 or 2 more rounds. Same with the color, two tones definitely worth going for.
I'm very happy with the results.

I didn't plan ahead for this....
Tho I'm proud finishing and on time with every sketch. Tho some of these should not ever saw the Sun.
Anyhow I believe this is on point with the prompt.

An oldie but...

Interesting info:
While I was looking for reference images, apparently when one teeth grows long - the head start growing asymmetrical.

What I didn't know: on rare cases both front tooth develops into tusks. I bet it is not without any pain to be a Narwhal.

An other wilder one from me. A bit macabre - but I'm not the person who paid +2.200,00 EUR for this piece.

Trophy belonging to a victim of a raid on the Ifugao's side, head hunter in the Philippines

The moment I erased the pencil sketch and started to go back with more ink ... One of my boo-boos on my fingers (paper cut) started to act up.
So I have to shelf this for couple of hours. I will edit the post with the finished sketch.

I broke the clasp of the first one, so I went in an added the tiger's eye + carnelian part that was just laying around. The earrings were made for the original chain, but fortunately they still work.

And because it took a whole mess to repair/face lift the wooden one, I decided to replace an other one that I misplaced. The funny thing that it is misplaced because when I tried to find the earrings, they were gone also.

This one is glass, quartz crystal and probably the tiny ones are just quartz also. Now I either find the missing one, or I have "no choice" and have to make some earrings also :)

My other Ideas started with ... USSR, then I wanted to include Yugoslavia, then Czechoslovakia then Trianon ... and after the Ottoman and Roman empire - I just ended up here....