tatting

I learned tatting from my  mother and grandmother before I started kindergarten, but I didn’t do a lot of tatting until I was a teenager.  There weren’t many tatting patterns easily available back then.

My real life name is Ruth Perry.  I was born in Warren, Ohio.  I’m married to my sweetheart, Dan, and we have 5 grown children and 6 wonderful grandkids!  Plus two spoiled Pomeranian dogs, Tana and Claire.

When I was teaching tatting at Southwestern Michigan College community education program, my students told me I had to write a book because they were able to learn tatting from my class when everything else they had tried failed.

So I looked up information about writing a book.  My first book, Easy Tatting, was written in 1994, and Dover Publishing released it as part of the Dover Needlework Series in 1999.

My second book is called Celtic Tatting - Knots & Patterns - Handy Hands 2003.

I publish under a pen name, Rozella Florence Linden.  That is my grandmother’s first name, my mother’s middle name, and my sister’s favorite tree.  My sister helped me pick out the pen name.  Everyone I knew who tatted was either in my family, or someone we had taught to tat until the 90s.

I am a computer systems engineer with a hobby that got out of hand - TATTING!  I met Dan while working on the Y2K projct at Lexis-Nexis in Miamisburg Ohio.  We enjoy our family, SCUBA diving, and just plain enjoying life.

I design tatting, write, and teach tatting.  I have enjoyed teaching all over the USA, and next year I’ll be going up to Canada to teach too.