Edgings, Necklaces, Hearts and Snowflakes

Fox is stuck on the third exercise of T.A.T., having read the instructions incorrectly. Then she took a break to play with an insert from the Priscilla publication.
Katie re-purposed some small tins with hinged lids to hold tatting tools as gifts for her tatting friends. Then she filled them with colour co-ordinated tatting treasures like HDT matching beads and a small pic cushion made of felt. Then she explains how she uses decoupage on a shuttle. Rayanna tatted a lip balm holder from Heather's pattern. IsDihara has finished row 3 on her adaptation of the SweetHeart by Birgit Phelps, tatted in Rainbow Bright HDT. It's a bright and cheerful design. She also posted a bread wrapper design that is simply shouting "TAT ME!"
Wanda tatted these snowflakes to give to special friends and family. She thinks she will mount the multicoloured snowflakes tatted in Lizbeth Christmas Delight size 20 in bangles for hand delivery, but leave the bangles off of those she mails. The white snowflake is new this year, too it's pretty quick and easy to make. Aileen's Hallowversary prizes are on the way. She went to the local craft store and found some Silco thread on sale and tried it out for tatting. She found it was very smooth, about the size of 80 or 100 and it tatted up nicely. She also managed to complete another lipstick holder in 29 DMC cebelia - so it's a little chunkier. Carol's daughter Katrina received this awareness ribbon tatted by Rayanna, that has a lovely little angel pin in the centre of the ribbon. Carol used size 80 thread on Heather's tiny shuttles and had enough thread to tat this delicate heart. Carol was a winner in Clyde's giveaway and he sent her this beautiful, delicate bookmark tatted in Yarnplayers HDT Lavender Orchid in Size 100, along with a skein of HDT. Diane tested out one of Heathers itty bitty shuttles with great success. Her Raspberry Sorbet, that's thread, NOT dessert, finally arrived from Ireland along with a lovely tatted snowflake. Since Diane has the book with the pattern she plans on tatting this snowflake. Heather designed one necklace with a second variation and now she has orders for a several more.

Butterflies, Hearts, Bookmarks and Flowers

Liz shows her first motif for the challenge, a butterfly tatted in DMC Cotton Perl. Pattern by Soyloquesoy.

Fox has been tatting for a while, but she has just decided to join the challenge. She has been working on a pink rosette with a leafy green border that is cupping. However, as it is a decoration for a hat, the cupping has just added to it's charm giving it a 3 dimensional quality.

Katie found that the Sweet Heart pattern by Birgit Phelps was a perfect size for trying out her HDT. It was also the perfect size to fit in the little heart shaped frame she found. Another of her HDT threads was tatted in the same design and a bead added to the point to make a charming pendant. M tatted this Bookmark With Overlapping Chains in Lizbeth size 20, colours 601, 623 and 624 but she doesn't like how the shuttle joins look. A small mistake in how she tatted Heart o' Daisies tatted with Lizbeth size 20, colours 613 and 695, has put her off the design, or maybe it's the way the picots aren't laying flat. The instructions for this next Bookmark were in Italian and it was tatted in Lizbeth size 20, 144 and 623. Mark's Back to School Apple was tatted in Lizbeth size 20, 671 & 680. Tatty Turtle also by Mark Myers was tatted in Lizbeth size 20, col 690 and he promptly ran away.

Viv tatted Birget Phelps button cross to give as Christmas gifts as ornaments, this one is in Lizbeth Caribean size 20. The basic pattern for this beaded earring is from Be-stitched and she added her pretty sparkly new beads to the picots and the loop at the bottom, but there were supposed to be 3 loops. Oops. Linda has finished embellishing a denim shirt with tatting using a variety of patterns. The edging is a split ring pattern from Jane Eborall The bumblebees are block tatting by Martha Ess. The Hanging Cluny dragon fly by Zena Herbert is a pretty pattern but she left the Cluny head out. The small butterfly and owl are patterns by Roger aka Freedman. The worms are her own design using split rings. The front pocket has a butterfly by Jane Eborall and the heart by Heather Johnston. All of these were done primarily in size 20 Lizbeth Thread.

Steph wrote about her tat day at ZigZag and she was thrilled that her poinsettia was the ornament contest winner. Ellen created an assortment of tatted pieces like these hairclips and earrings to be sold at a bazaar sale at work. She pledged 15% of the sales for the Padang Earthquake Relief ans was please to give them a cheque for $73. The flower and leaf were tatted quite some time ago and finally assembled so that she could wear them for the occasion.


Diane has finished another of Mary Konior's Spinning Wheel glass mat designs. This one uses some of Krystle's HDT and Diane is hoping she'll make more of this colour. Maria found this star motif online but she doesn't know who the designer is. Any ideas? These delicate motifs are Christmas gifts.

Butterflies, Edgings and Flowers

Katie joins the challenge with Yarnplayer's Keyed Up pattern tatted in Lizbeth Spring Garden colour. Her next motif is from Tatting with Visual Patterns, also in Lizbeth size 20 Spring Garden. She's also working on the little tatting tote by Sharon Albers using Lizbeth size 20 in a variegated color for the rings & a solid for the chains. Her next piece is Sweet Heart by Birgit Phelps done in her own HDT.

Rayanna joins the challenge and she has posted a turkey tatted from Mark Myers pattern, a leaf pattern by Heather, Karey Solomon's heart called "Heartful Greeting" out of her book called "Tatting Y2K". Her daughter is sporting a choker made from edging #5 in "Tatting Patterns for One Shuttle - Book 1" by Mark Myers. She loves doing motifs and here are a few she tatted by various artists. On the left is "Flower with One Picot in the Center" by Rozella F. Linden. The middle one is from the book "Minitats" by Patti Duff and on the right is a Tree Frame pattern by Roger aka Freedman.




M tatted "The Second Day of December" and from the book 24 Snowflakes in Tatting by Lene Bjørn in Lizbeth size 20, col 690 and "The Eleventh Day of December" from the same book in Lizbeth size 20, col 601.
IsDIhara shows us a lovely card holder adorned with tatting and silk ribbon embroidery that she found in an Etsy shop. She also shares her stash of HDT and asks, "What's in your stash?" Pam found the pattern for a Celtic Snowflake on Tatman’s Blog that she planned to tat in blue and white, but unfortunately she didn't put enough thread on the shuttle and had to stop at only 5 repeats. That of course meant that she could only do a corresponding number of repeats in the second half. She opted to stop there rather than try to modify the second round to fit fewer repeats. Brigitte discovered the Hearts for Tracy patterns on Heather Johnston's tatting blog and sat down over the weekend and tatted two of them. The red shaded heart is Lizbeth Size 20 thread with gold Size 11 seed beads. For the pink heart she used Gem Size 30 thread.

Krystle had to empty some shuttles so it was time to finish off some projects like this doily from the Tatted Artistry of Teiko Fujito worked in Heather's Ruths Irish HDT. She has also listed her own HDT in her shop, "Ivria's Afternoon" and "Windbreaker".

Charlotte tatted "Wild Rose" from Mary Konior's A Pattern Book of Tatting using Yarnplayer's size 20 "Roses" HDT. That makes 25 motifs for Charlotte, but she isn't finished yet. Ancolie prepares tatting gifts for charity with these bookmarks, but she loves doilies so much, that she does some of them when she is bored with bookmarks. Wanda spent her Tatting Tea Tuesday with IsDihara and received her giveaway prize, the lovely piecework ornament embellished with orange pumpkin tatting. The two butterflies are Wanda's pattern, made with Lizbeth Falling Leaves and Lizbeth Black in size 20 as the body and the edging. The heart is Tracy's Heart, by Heather from The Tarnished Tatter, in the same threads. The heart is again Tracy's Heart by Heather, done in Lizbeth thread size 20 black and Victorian Red. Wanda used two shuttles and adjusted the pattern just a little so the bottom ring was in black instead of red. The butterflies are based on a pattern by Monica Mancenido, aka soyloquesoy, found on Intatters. Ellen was a lucky last winner in Clyde's Garden Tour Giveaway, and she received this fine bookmark Clyde tatted in size 100 HDT, and the skein of thread too! Meanwhile she has been working on more ATC's like this one with a moveable kitty chasing a tatted butterfly.

Aileen has a prototype ready, a modified version of her lip balm case, but this one is designed for lipstick. This one is done in size 20 Omega thread and she's thinking of doing more for her Etsy shop. Arlene is back after a long hiatus with another podcast.

Bev has her shuttles out and her new computer working so she is able to post pictures again. Her tree designed by Pam Palmer from, "Tatting Treats 2" has beads, but they are hard to see. It was done in dark green Valdini, size 12 and the bottom is red DMC size 30. Her big project this fall is a doily from "Sheep May Safely Graze" by Karey Solomon. The roses are in HDT "Pizzazz" and the leaves are Valdini a dark green soft cotton in size 12. The Butterfly is from Palmetto Tatter's Book of Butterflies in a rose Valdini size 12. The snowflake is from a book by Debbie Munoz tatted in Lizbeth Snowy White in size 30. The little motif in Pamela Myers Chocolate Raspberry HDT is Bev's own design from the Design-Tat class. Bev has also finished a bit of tatting for Rebekah's wedding head piece which Zena Herbert is designing. The pattern is Mary Konier's "beauty spots" which incorporates all rings and Josephine knots and it's tatted in Anchor, size 30 and is about 3/4" wide.

Carol tatted a few edgings and motifs out of Rebecca Jones book for IsDihara's giveaway. Diane didn't get as much of the spinning wheel glass mat done as she thought she would, but it is progressing nicely.

Eva shows us the treasures that were displayed at a recent meeting.

Heather has received a lot of donations of Hearts for Tracy and she was busy taking pictures for the shop. Then she tatted Jon's motif from her book Tatting with rings in brown and pink. Then a free form design in pink and brown. She has taught her daughter to tat and there is a collection of pretty butterflies to show for it. Then there is a sample piece done in shuttle and needle tatting. Can you tell which is which? An itty bitty clay shuttle - would you tat with it? Finally there is a display of Heather's HDT stash and pictures of some craft items she is de-stashing.

Jeff has created a chainmaille and scissors fob which is now in his Etsy shop. Here he has embellished it with Marilees's Carnival Earring. His other tatting project is Gina's Gingerbread Boy made with Lizbeth size 20 thread in colour #692 brown and DMC Cordonnet size 20 white for the frosting. Yum! Cookies without calories. Kathy used the 1872 edging and Valdani thread to jazz up her comfy slippers.

Margaret has been offline for a while, but tatting although she didn't get a chance to take pictures of some of the things she did. The three tatted butterflies are all from the pattern, 'Flat Butterfly' from the book "Christmas Angels and other Tatting Patterns" by Monica Hahn tatted in Altin Basak #50, one green metallic, one yellow, and the middle one a variegated yellow, white, and green. The card uses the same pattern tatted in valdani 12 variegated thread with a few simple flowers and her own version of grass.

Martha has tatted several of Heather's "Hearts for Tracy" combining a solid and a variegated thread. The first uses Shuttle Trend Lab thread from Palmetto and the rest are Lizbeth thread. She tweaked the design a little so that more of the variegated thread shows.Nita has been away from blogging for a while having back surgery with complications, but while she was between hospital visits she tatted this lovely doily in size 20 purple and lavender Lizbeth thread. She didn't remember to write down the name of the designer so if anyone recognizes it let her know.
Sherry has been a busy lady since our last update. Check her blog for the winners of her giveaway. There is a new selection of retractable hook pens available in sizes 9 to 14, displayed with a lovely tatted butterfly. A new batch of HDT in "Tuscany" and "Honey Amber". Her thread sizes are in 100, 80, 50 and 20 in cotton and size 20 in silk. All of this in addition to the first new batch of ceramic shuttles since she returned from Korea.

Hearts and Snowflakes, and Then Some

We'll begin this update with Viv, who tatted Heather's Hearts for Tracy heart. She used Lizbeth Dr Purple for this one.


Isdihara shows us the quilted ornament that she made for a fellow tatter. She added some tatting in the form of a pumpkin edging and a pumpkin motif. Very pretty. Isdihara also shows us the cute tatted pumpkin earrings that she won in a giveaway from Elizabeth.
Mica has tatted Snowflake 11 from 24 Snowflakes in Tatting. She used 1 thread from a DMC metallic skein. She also shows us a doily that she is working on.


Linda and several ladies she taught to tat, tatted Heather's Heart for Tracy heart. Well done ladies.


Krystal shows us the pendant, tatted in her own HDT, that started off as an earring. Next Krystal tatted a pair of Marilee's Quadrille Earrings also done in her own HDT. She finally shows us the heart she tatted again done in some of her own HDT. Very nice.


Ancolie tatted a SCMR bookmark by Sabina Carden-Madden. Next she shows us the bookmark she designed. Very nice.


Ellen has been busy making and trading ATCs. She shows us the one she received from Bonnie, as the ATC she sent to Bonnie. I love the little tatted bee. She also shows us the Gr8 shuttles from the Shuttle Brothers as well as their newest book. Finally Ellen shows the us the "bits" of tatting she received from Jon.

Mrs. John has tatted a very pretty butterfly. The pattern is called 'Tatted Butterfly', on page 12 of Number 3, Volume 29 December 1963 The Workbasket magazine. She tatted the motif using size 10 thread. This is her motif #13.

Aileen decided she wanted to tat a lip balm holder so she came up with one herself. She then realized that Heather had tatted one as well and shared the pattern. Aileen tatted her prototype using size 20 Hankelgarn thread in white with a half pearl plastic button. Looks good. A Wickedtats original with inspiration from Heather. Aileen also shows us how to make a retractable hook pen yourself.


Diane is almost finished tatting Beatrice, but she ran out of thread and has to order more. While she waits for more thread, Diane decided to play around with the snowflake frames. She used some of LadyShuttleMaker's Weeping Cherry in size 80 to create a little snowflake that fits perfectly in the frame. Diane also decided to use some HDT she got from Krystal to tat, what else, but another Spinning Wheel Mat (a Mary Konior design).


Heather certainly been busy. She created a number of tatting shuttles. She tatted a couple of necklaces, though she was unsure if she wanted to sell them. Finally, Heather has decided to publish another book. This one, titled "The Ladies in My Life" will be a tribute to the women who helped Heather become who she is today. What an awesome idea. Each lady will be represented in tatting. Absolutely gorgeous.


I(Jeff) tatted Jon's newest snowflake "Featherline". I altered the pattern slightly so I could jump from the centre to the second round, without the cut and tie. I used Lizbeth size 20 thread in colour #605 Silver. This is my 4th motif in my third round of the challenge.


Kelly has also been tatting snowflakes. She tatted a dozen of Jeanne Lugert's "Threes Snowflake", and she still needs to tat another dozen with read beads. She also tatted a dozen of anther snowflake that she found on Georgia's site. Finally, she tatted about 6 of LaRae Mikulecky's Lacy Bookmark pattern. Wow!

Martha tatted Mark Myer's newest Pumpkin pattern. She used size 80 thread to make it. She thinks it is a bit crowded, and she figures its either her picots on the outline round or the lack of proper blocking. Looks awesome to me.


Sherry is having another Mondo Monday giveaway, so if you haven't entered yet, you should. If you want to, I mean.

Wally brought out her tatting needles to see if she still remembered how to needle tat. Looks like she still remembers.

Doilies, Hearts, Earrings and Leaves

IsDihara tatted a design from Georgia Seitz's pattern book, "Tatting on the Edge...and Beyond" using Sherry's HDT. She also shows us her Witchypoo Shoe teapot on a lovely tatted doily. Mica gives us a sneak peek at a new project she is working on. Linda has been working on a CQ Christmas stocking for her niece and she has used beads, embroidery and tatting to create it. Krystle is swimming in her own HDT and is selling off some of it in her Etsy shop. While waiting for more supplies she crafted some clever display/advertising/gift package/shipping containers for her earrings. Wanda had a combined visit the family, play live in babysitter, trip to see her daughter who is recovering from surgery and on the plane ride she tatted a couple of Heather's heart pattern. Heather gives the pattern so that people can tat a heart to encourage her friend Tracy, who is going for a double mastectomy. Aileen created a new bead tray to work from by covering a small tray with sloping sides in some bright orange felt. She immediately tried it out tatting these black and white earrings from an online pattern. The earrings are her 25th motif so Aileen has finished another round of 25 motifs. Diane has been steadily working on the Beatrice doily and it's coming along. She also found some snowflake picture frames that can be displayed on an easel, hung by a ribbon or attached with a magnet. The opening is only 1.5 inches so the tatting needs to be small. So she's saving them for next year. Heather recovered enough from being sick to use Jon's method for encapsulating a ring and made a pair of earrings. In celebration of her birthday she has a giveaway of some charming flat shuttles. She has created a collection of coil earrings that encapsulate wire for a lovely 3D effect.
Sherry has sustained an injury that is keeping her in pain and unable to do much of anything but she did manage to create some new hook pens displayed here with matching tatting.
TattingChic shows us her fall display of the leaves she tatted last year around a pumpkin candle.

Snowflakes, Leaves, Edging and Doily

Mica tatted Day 10 from 24 Snowflakes in Tatting worked with DMC metallic thread. She liked the pattern but hated the thread. It kept splitting and tearing and she couldn't tat more than a few rings without the thread snapping. She eventually did the whole pattern with chains and mock rings and notes that it might be a coincidence, but the skeins that tend to be more difficult.

Krystle introduces us to Dr. Von Threadmore scientist extraordinaire who has been changing ordinary white thread into all the colours of the rainbow.

Aileen topped her Halloween post with charming little cross stitched picture and continuing in a seasonal vein she shares the Maple Leaf by Tammy Rogers and the Sugar Maple Leaf by Gale Marshall, both done in a variegated thread she got from Hongkong. She finishes her posting with the winners of her HALLOWVERSARY giveaway. Congratulations to all the winners.

Diane chose some favorites, "Beatrice" from Tatted Doilies by Iris Niebach, Tatskool's Raspberry Sorbet HDT, and two of her Grizzly Mountain Arts shuttles to keep her on track tatting instead of e-farming. It's a much more productive use of time.
Kathy circled her Halloween pumpkin with a cloverleaf edging done in size 30 thread.

Hearts, Snowflakes, Pumpkins, Leaves, Bookmarks and Dragon

M tatted "Queen of Hearts" from the book Tatting With Visual Patterns by Mary Konior in Lizbeth size 20, col 114 and she plans on tatting it again in another colour.

Viv thinks she has the final version of her Halloween costume done. The period corset has several gussets and she has covered the front ones with tatting. The skirt has a long curved slit that she has also decorated with tatting, and to top it all off she'll be wearing tatted Raspberry Sorbet earrings. Now we want to see pictures of of the whole ensemble make up and all.

Pam just got around to posting this picture of a heart. It's another of the beginning lesson challenges from Georgia Seitz’s online classes.

Vinnie saw Teri's butterfly bookmark and these blue beads and she had to match the ideas up to create her own butterfly bracelet. Worked with 4 shuttles (4 shuttles!) and no outer border. Free flying butterflies on a bracelet, or is it an anklet?

Ancolie has tatted Mary Konior's Network in DMC size 20.

Shirley tatted the heart, a Barbara Foster adaptation of a J.M. Blackman design done in Lizbeth thread size 20, color 121 and white DMC Cebelia size 20 and added a tail to make a bookmark. The other bookmark is Jane Eborall's design which was tatted as a gift and adapted in colors to depict the owners' own cat with green beads for the eyes and a pink one for the nose. The grey is DMC cordonnet special and DMC Cebelia white, both size 30. Now she has orders for several more and varying colours to match other cats.

Anne won books and thread at Frivolitetsknuten. She has been testing quilting threads for tatting and plans on buying more Gütermann SULKY, Cotton 12 and Aurifil Cotton 12. She used Gütermann SULKY Cotton 12 to make the dragon and gave it to a friend. She's currently looking for a small but advanced motif to make in three colours. This one was a bit too complicated and she needs to be able to write the pattern too. Carol has been using Tatting Tea Tuesday to create a fall display. First there is a lovely little pumpkin designed by Sherry Matthews. Then an updated Workbasket pattern done by Tammy Rodgers worked in Yarnplayer's Sugar Maple HDT and a solid butter cream Manuela. The right leaf center is also Manuela in light pumpkin. The acorns are from Karey Solomon's book "Tatting Turns over a New Leaf" as are the next patterns,"Simple Leaf" and "Silver Maple Leaf", done in Yarnplayer's Sugar Maple HDT and a solid red Manuela for the center. The cute little leaf is designed by Sherry and done in Altin Basak thread. Finally here is the dining room table all decorated for Fall

Diane thinks "Itsy-Bitsy Snowflake" is her favorite pattern in Samantha Melnychuk's A Veritable Tatted Blizzard. She used Cebelia, size 20 and mounted it in a picture frame, where it's a perfect fit. Rather than play with other threads that might not fit so well, she's just working with more of the same. Check my blog for a thread comparison, it's in the sidebar on the right. Any of those listed will be roughly the same size as the Cebelia 20.

Heather is collecting hearts for her friend Tracy, both hearts and notes to wish her well, as well as hearts to be sold in a fund raiser for Tracy. To promote this activity Heather has created 2 variations of a heart design that people can use, although I'm sure other hearts would be welcome as well as long as there is no copyright infringement. Heather's address is in the pattern PDF. If you have the time, I'm sure both Heather and Tracy will appreciate your efforts.

Kelly received her Fall-oween exchange which was a lovely tatted pumpkin turned into a pin inside a marvellous card decorated with tatted flowers.