Friday afternoon I took my fisrt class.  It was Martha Ess' Celtic Hat.  This year the classes (well, every year is the same!) were so "yummie" that was a difficult decision to make the schedule and choose from all of them.

I love Celtic Tatting and I was not going to miss this opportunity.  The hat is small and could be make into a pincushion.  Before the class we were suppose to make our homework, that was to make the 1st round of the hat that was a band of Split rings.  I didn't made the homework.    But while Martha was explaining a little about the Celtic History I manage to start the homework and then keep with the rest of the explanations.  Some explanations and exercises were discussed about designing.  Celtic Tatting can be categorize in 2 styles: the "true" celtic knotwork made usually by interweaving a long chain into the design (Ruth Perry's style) and the more "traditional" celtic tatting that is compose of several motifs interweaved.

Here is her hat.  I like the colors she used.  In this style of tatting, the more colors used the prettiest it looks.

Here are some pics while at class.  We had a blast; talking and joking.  There were several that got confused with the use of thread colors and others took the opportunity to joke about it.    Not me!  Because I used 2 colors only.  LOL

Here is a pretty pic of my finished hat wear by my new model "Taddy the Teddy".    Isn't she gorgeous!