My approach to designing tatting

 I have taken several approaches when designing tatting.In the early days, it was a pen & paper method where I made sketches of the designs, just a few rings and chains and test-tatted them.  Almost all the time, I will have to make several attempts to get the stitch count right for the repeats and all that.Another method is I just go with the flow and get it all done. This worked for small