I love tatting!

It´s really fun.  It fits literally in a pocket.  There are no stitches to lose and the process of creating a piece can go round and round, back and forth, in a squiggly manner, or some combination of all those and more.  As I´m learning more about it I find the mathematical possibilities interesting.  Each textile form has its own restrictions... a tatted piece is essentially the path of one string, covered with a pattern of knots and picots.  Unlike many other techniques, the string can cross itself to create loops.  How many designs can you think of that are made of curves and loops?  Boggling, right?  But how many of those designs can be created in a continuous path, where each segment is covered only once, and there is enough connection between the segments to make a fabric that won´t loose its shape? 

I´m in Lima now, and leave early tomorrow morning for the mountains.  Undoubtedly I´ll learn a lot over this summer.  I hope some of it will have to do with textiles.