Priscilla

The Priscilla publishing company was based in Boston, and published a magazine called the Modern Priscilla, in addition to many books
on needlework, and a cookbook.

I like their books; I think they have a nice range of difficulties. (I don't know how they are for instruction.)

So, in the list below, I have everything that is bolded.

Armenian Lace
Baby Book 1
Basketry Book 1
Battenberg and Point Lace Book
How to Make Battenberg & Point Lace
Bead Work Book (1912)
Bead Work Book (1925)
Bobbin Lace Book
Crochet Book - Bedspreads
Cluny Crochet Book
Colored Cross Stitch Book 1
Colored Cross Stitch Book 2
Cotton Knitting Book
Crochet Book
Crochet Book - Centrepieces & Doilies
Crochet Book - Edgings & Insertions 1
Crochet Book - Edgings & insertions 2
Cross Stitch Book
Drawn Work Book
Filet Crochet Book 1
Filet Crochet Book 2
French Eyelet and Shadow Embroidery
Hardanger Book
Hardanger Book 1
Hardanger Book 2
Hedebo and Cutwork Book
Irish Crochet Book
Irish Crochet Book 2
Italian Cutwork Book
Knitting Book
Macrame Book
Mexican Carved Leather and English Raised Leather
Mexican Drawn Work Book
Monogram and Initial Book
Needlework Book
Netting Book
Patchwork Book
Punched Work Book
Smocking Book
Sweater Book
Tatting Book 1
Tatting Book 2
Tatting Book 3
War Work Book
Wool Knitting Book
Wool Knitting and Crochet Book
Yoke Book - Crochet & Tatting
Wallachian Embroidery


Some of them came from here, from here, and some from here.

Tatting

I've been tatting a bit lately. My tatting bag comes from DS9Designs, and it has red roses on it. It was a gift from a dear friend.

I've decided I need to build my skills some, so I switched from a simple bookmark pattern that has chains in it to an even simpler one with a 4 ring motif that is repeated, joined together. I also switched from size 80 tatting cotton to size 10 crochet cotton. (The size 10 is Coats & Clark's Opera; the 80 is DMC tatting cotton.)

When tatting make sure you have a hard thread, not a soft, smooshy one. The soft threads don't work well, because they compress down when you pull and the knots don't stay even.