Easter egg, Leaf, Hearts, TIAS, Butterflies, Necklace, Motifs, Bookmarks and Doilies

 JB tatted Egg #7 from TATTED EASTER EGGS by Kirsten Wind Hansen. Tatted in Lizbeth #115 Springtime and #680 Spring Green with size 6 spring colored glass beads. 

Laurette tatted an oak leaf and acorn from Tatting Turns Over a New Leaf by Karey Solomon and added seed beads to give the illusion of dew drops on the leaf. The extra long stem used to attach an acorn means she can use it for a bookmark.

Lyn has Peace and Tolerance Tiny Heart by Monica Mancenido and the larger one is My Heart by Eileen Stafford which are her first 2 motifs for the challenge. She's up to Day 8 on the TIAS. 

Heather shows us the tatting from the InTatters exchange from nctatter and from Piney Woods Tatter.

Axa is looking for spring with this lovely butterfly based on a vintage pattern adapted by Wally Sosa and tatted in size 80 Anchor Artiste. 

Garyo shared a necklace from Tatting Lace No Necklace by FUJITO Teiko in Koma-jirushi Silk Button Hole Thread in Black with TOHO small seed beads No. 204 that she did in 2009. 

Jessica started on the 4th round of the tea cloth, but wanted to see what the motif that it is made up of would look like on its own and it's too large to use as earrings or pendant in size 10 but it might work in size 80. She started the fourth round with yellow centres but she's not sure about the stitch count.

Linda shows us many lovely uses for crazy quilts and lots of tatted embellishments like a Denim jacked with CQ and a tatted edging around the collar, a CQ purse with tatted bunny, butterflies and kokopeli, a small pouch with a bit of edging and butterflies and a block for "Hearts and Hands for Sendai" with tatted hearts. A flag block of the USA has a tatted eagle on it. The seams and motifs on the block for The Crazy Quilt Squares for Tat Days Scholarship 2010 are all tatted. An assortment of CQ blocks with lots of tatting like hearts, motifs and butterflies. 

Diane tried to tat "Christina" from Tatted Bookmarks - cross-shaped by Lene Bjorn but after 2 failed attempts she switched to "Maria". "Adiratna" from Elegant Tatting Gems by Jon Yusoff also gave her problems. Some days tatting just doesn't work the way you want it to.

Fox was working on Frivole's "Stellar" but it got too messed up for our perfectionist, Fox so she scrapped it and started again. This one seems to be cooperating. She's up to Day 8 on TIAS and is enjoying it. Stellar is finished in all it's glory.

Michelle tatted Susan Fuller's Heart's Desire which Frivole diagrammed in size 20 Lizbeth. She thinks the colour is burgundy. And Birgit's peacock heart ended up as a bookmark. The colour change in this EdMar Brazilian thread didn't do that pattern justice. Her husband didn't like the bottom of the original of Mary Konior's Convoluvus pattern from Tatting in Lace. She changed it as per his specifications and now he likes it so she added a tassel. She's caught up to Day 7 of TIAS.

Sherry has Day 8 of TIAS done and if does turn out to be a goat, she'll add it to the Farm Animal scene she is working on.

Sue tatted Sue Hanson's Val's Suncatcher in size 40 Pink/Purple/Blue variegated HDT from Jess and put it in a bangle bracelet.

Easter Eggs, TIAS, Edgings, Motifs, Hearts, Doily, Earrings, Snowflakes, Christmas trees, Crosses and Bracelet

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JB used Lizbeth #124 Spring Garden and #624 Raspberry Pink Med to tat Egg #5 from TATTED EASTER EGGS by Kirsten Wind Hansen. Day 7 of TIAS has turned the corner and beginning to look like something.

Frivole is engaged in some entredeux (between two) tatting like Mary Konior's, Corn & Chaff in Lizbeth Blue River Glades and Trellis made with what Mary Konior calls "Victorian Sets" (also called Rick Rack, ricrac or zig zag tatting - I prefer zig zag because it is more descriptive and more commonly understood by the average person) both patterns can be found in the book "Tatting in Lace".

Anita is following Take A Stitch Tuesday (TAST) and has added a tatted star to her feather stitch embroidery to create a falling star. Cute and clever!

Jess shows Mary Konior's Eightsome Reel tatted in her "Laila" HDT and Susan Fuller's Heart's Desire is tatted in size 80 Pink to Gray HDT. Iris Niebach's Cornelia from Tatted Doilies in size 80 of her blue/gray black experimental HDT.

Garyo tatted a motif from this recently published book by MORIMOTO Kazuko using Lisbeth size 40 Colour #641. She's really enjoying the book and she's delighted to find that she CAN tat 25 motifs in a year. Congratulations to a successful completion of the challenge. Her most recent motif in progress is another design by MORIMOTO Kazuko in pink and gray which she has found soothing to tat.

Jessica has finished round 2 of the tea cloth project and started the 3rd. She has plans to start it again in a nicer thread.

 Marta has another beautiful earring set done.

Cindy is using the left over thread on her shuttles to tat hearts for Valentine's Day. Like the Tatted Heart from Handy Hands and Betsy Evans Small Tatted Heart. She thinks the one from a 1988 Workbasket looks a little lopsided and I've always thought the design looked unfinished. I would have added an outward facing ring at the bottom of the heart just to make a point.

Fox has been fixated on Zentangles but did manage to tat a little motif from the Tatted Easter Eggs book and promptly shattered one of the glass beads when she put a heavy glass pitcher on it to press it. She has been using up all of her size 20 thread and this is that last of it on one of the Tatted Eggs which is missing a couple of repeats because she ran out of thread. She tatted another egg, this one in Karey Solomon's HDT #30 Cebelia. Her blue pimpernel shuttle is covering up her current tatting. Recognize it?

Gina tatted Kim Millar's Lover's Knot pattern that she found in the Wayback Machine which includes a crochet braid. Kim developed a number of tatted designs which incorporated a row of crochet braid that adds a whole new dimension to the lace.

Marti has been tatting but not posting making snowflakes from Jon Yusoff's book Elegant Tatting Gems in red and green DMC size 80 tatting thread. She had some problems with one of the designs but the colours really make the designs pop.

Mica's beaded flower is a Jan Stawasz design tatted with DMC special cordonnette 80 in white and some random seed beads from Michaels.

Sue has an update on her challenge. 5 pairs of Christmas trees to fill her orders, one of my Valentine earrings tatted in size 40 Lizbeth Christmas red with clear glass beads and 3 more rainbow crosses so she has some in stock for when her mother-in-law wants more. Then a bracelet for her mother-in-law's birthday next week is the Wandering Blooms bracelet by Dawn McLaughlin tatted in size 40 Lizbeth Royal Blue. The tablecloth for her husband is progressing but working without a pattern she has some empty circles forming an interesting design element. Needing a change of colour she tried this doily with a size 10 Aunt Lydia's crochet thread in Passionata.

Wanda has Day 8 of TIAS done and it's looking remarkably like a billy goat at this stage. She made this cute little bell from a free pattern that yarnplayer has available. She was given Tatted Snowflakes Collection by Jon Yusoff for Christmas and this is Twirly done in Lizbeth Caribbean and while she likes the colour it doesn't do the pattern justice.