This page will be used to organize the tutorials I post. This will be done manually, so there may be some delay.
Sewing Tutorials
- Hand-sewing 101: knots, a couple of useful stitches, seam allowance tool, and portable kit
- Rolled seams and hidden zippers
- Fashion design paper dolls: make customized guides for your design sketches
- Adding an in-seam pocket to an existing garment pattern
- Hiding your stitching for a more professional look
- Cheating buttonholes: use a fancy placket and bit of ribbon to make buttonholes quickly and easily
Tatting Tutorials
- Needle tatting 101: ds, picot, join
- Adding thread: included in the paired hearts choker pattern
- Spiral chains: no explicit tutorial; see my needle-tatted garter pattern
- Fancy shaped rings: hearts, dragonfly wings/elongated rings, and water drops
- Ruffle chains and reverse joins: included in the floral edging pattern
- Bracelets: a tutorial for making bracelet clasps by covering pony beads with thread
Crochet Tutorials
- Re-balling yarn
- Tunisian-sole granny_slippers (PDF): written pattern including a photo tutorial for crochet magic loop and Tunisian simple stitch.
seesawyer 
Hi–The fractal tatting pattern was the topic of one of Georgia Seitz’ classes a couple of weeks ago. The expansion of this pattern into the “N” part of the triangle is eluding me. My spatial visioning is weak. The class helped me get the direction of the first small triangle, what you are labeling as “S,M,L,etc..,” but I cannot follow the path for the expansion into the larger triangle. Could you offer any suggestions or assistance? This is an awesome pattern for its visual simplicity coupled with the complexity of the path through the tatting. Thanks!
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I assume this is regarding https://seesawyer.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/fractal-tatting-1/ : news to me that someone is using this material for classes, but okay! Each expansion simply repeats what went before, with a little bit of fiddling (the L and S connection units) because lace does not quite produce geometrically ideal points and lines. Whenever your work makes a complete 45-45-90 triangle, you want to mirror along a short side. This requires either an S or L unit, depending where you are – the other one will push you towards the long side, making a square rather than a bigger triangle. Once you’ve made the connector, repeat everything you did before the connector, and you will get a 45-45-90 triangle that is twice as big.
It’s been a couple years and I don’t super love the notation I used in this entry, but the idea is that every time you encounter the N symbol in the sequence, what you do is MSMLMSM, the elemental sequence of the three pieces as shown in the small triangle diagram. It is just a notational shorthand, like “repeat lines 4-12”. Once you’ve done MSMLMSM, you’ve finished one N unit, so you come back and look at the bigger sequence; the next thing to do is an S unit, and then another N, aka MSMLMSM. Each notation level quadruples the size of the triangle, rather than doubling, so that I could explicitly note whether an S or L connector is next.
Hope that helps! Glad you like the pattern!
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