Star, Techniques, Doilies, Leaves, Nametag, TIAS, Ice Drops, Motifs, Button Motifs, Earrings, Bracelet, Cross, Bookmarks, Doodles, Tablecloth, Ornaments and Angels

Usha has been including Dot Picots and the Dot Picot Strings in her designs, like this star flower and a split ring braid. Her tiny diamond motif is a single shuttle design with Dot Picot Strings. Each trefoil petal is encircled with dot picot string and a mock ring of dot picot string is tatted at center of each petal in this Dot Picot Trio.

Vera was distressed at how this latest round ruffled and she was hoping that pressing it would flatten it out. If not, maybe the next round will tame it.

BattyTatter thinks these Maple leafs are fun to make and she plans to  put one on a card and use the other two for caps.

Melanie  made Tatted False Plait by Gina Brummet intending to use it as a nametag. She got her fair pieces back and had time to look through the judges comments. Now she's thinking about what colour to use next on her doily and whether to add beads or no beads.

Claire used Lizbeth thread size 20, colour Autumn Apple Pie # 169 to tat Jane Eborall's 2017 TIAS. She was interrupted and not able to finish until now, but she finally has her crinoline lady done.

Diane used her Purple Fudge pattern and Jelly Bean thread to make this Ice Drop, which seems really strange since there's neither purple nor fudge here. There is, however, the pattern for this design. A recent road trip resulted in 5 finished Ice Drops. Creating a tote bag for Palmetto Tat Days, left her so frustrated she needed some therapeutic tatting and her Minty Fudge pattern tatted in size 20 Lizbeth #119, Jelly Bean was just the soothing she needed. Again, the pattern has been included on her blog. Usha inspired her to try dot picots again with credible results.

Fox found a fancy button and some new beads, combined with some thread she acquired for a new project which resulted in a really sweet button motif. Finally, Edelweiss by Renulek, tatted in Lizbeth light silver #40, is 10" across. Another charming button motif with pale green thread and blue beads.

Margaret chose size 20 Lizbeth thread in Grape Pizzaz and white for the tat along with Alenalea, and noted that while it's a lovely pattern to tat and the outside round is very pretty, you need to watch it as she made two big cock ups and had to cut twice. She finally finished the other earring to the Pinterest post started on the 31st July using Lizbeth thread size 20 Niagara Falls, with white beads in the middle and blue seed beads on the rings, although she thinks the middle bead is too large. You can see from the Pinterest pattern that a smaller gauge bead was used.

Marie needed to empty a couple of shuttles, so she created this design which she may use to embellish a purse or box. This is a favorite, Celtic pattern from  "Il Mio Chiacchierino". She turned her  "Crosses Within A Cross," Greek cross, into a Traditional Cross. This doodle became the prototype for the "Mother's Day Brooch" and she decided to turn it into a bookmark. She emptied more shuttles coming up with this bookmark design. The design didn`t quite lay flat so she added another ring and chain. It`s still not right so she`s going to try again.

Martha had this image pop into her head when she heard Palmetto TatDay's theme was "Tat-a-Con".

Muskaan continues to play with floating beads and include marvelous pictorals on how you can do the same. Look at all the possibilities she has found for using these techniques. Even more play with floating beads.

Sue tatted these earrings in size 40 Lizbeth Angel's Love with green glass center beads and small green glass beads and they were promptly claimed by her daughter. Her daughter has quite a few tatted earrings. She tatted this tiny dangle quite a long time ago, but just found it and finished off the ends and added the hanger. This piece,with a bingo chip in the middle is tatted in size 40 Lizbeth Butterfly Breeze with plastic kids beads and tiny glass beads and features a cross in the middle. She tatted these Ice Drop earrings in size 40 Lizbeth Niagara Falls. She has added 4 more motifs to her tablecloth. And 1 more motif to the section showing the full open circles. In her latest personal challenge to tat ornaments she has one more done and here are the top, side and bottom views. She tatted 2 of Elaine P. Gan's angels in size 3 thread with an iridescent thread in it.  Using the same design as the red ornament, this one in in Snow White Lizbeth going on a red glass ornament. Here`s the finished ornament from all sides.

Motifs, Doilies, Flowers, Ice Drops, Angels, Runner, Pin, Crosses, Necklaces and Tablecloth

Vera tatted this celtic motif in stages so that it's easy to see how it's constructed. The first step is a 4 ring motif. Then a small motif with rings and the end of long chains. The rings are inserted through  the rings of the first 4 ring motif. Then the next round is tatted joining into the first two motifs making one large complex design. Here it is finished front and back. Finally a small charm, bead, or button is added to finish it off.

Sharon has round 2 of Renulek's spring 2017 doily done.

Pop Maria saw the flower Muskaan tatted and had to try it for herself. Not being content with the basic flower she had to jazz it up with beads. She liked Diane's Ice Drops and had to give them a whirl. Here's one with some graduated drop beads. Then one with lots of fluffy, frilly, picots. Lots for picots make for a nice flower and a lovely lapel pin.

Marthanne made her first Angel in Lizbeth 20 #152, but she decided to try it again in size 40 and she made two with Lizbeth #168. She began Renulek's 2017 Doiley beginning with a chain.  You can see that it did not work very well, so she tried again. She's not happy with the chains in round 2 and she'd like them to be more even. Round 3 is started, but now she wants to see what it looks like in size 40. The answer, of course is that it looks wonderful.

 

Diane has decided that now that she's working on the length of her sister-in-law's runner she'll post as she finishes a row of three motifs. She tatted an Ice Drop and made it into an ornament. The she tatted another one and turned it into a pin. Here's the bar pin on the back. She's working in green for St Patrick's Day and she has 5 completed. Diane ordered some clear acrylic beads and they work really well for Ice Drops. She also had to tat some more colourful Ice Drops. These two Ice Drops finish off her Rainbow Taffy thread. There are 38 Ice Drops here, plus the 5 that her daughter Joanne took home with her, making a total of 43 basic Ice Drops from one ball of thread!

Marie tatted the "Graduation Cross," by Wanda Salmans.  This quick, cross pattern is by Wendy Durell, called "Split Ring Cross."

Muskaan shows the process of how mistakes can be turned into new designs. Her first needle tatting attempts were some of the basics. These morphed into her Burlesque Pendant. Then she went a step further and worked out how to shuttle tat her needle tatting design.

Nikki was having trouble selecting a new design to start so she opted for tatting Renulek's Wiosna 2015 again, this time working in Artiste size 10 in black and wild berry.

Sue is making progress on her tablecloth and ignoring all those ends she'll have to hide. (Been there, done that and can I just say, on large projects, don't leave the ends until last, hide the ends as you go so that when the last motif is finished you'll just have the last 2 ends to hide and you're truly done. At the stage where Sue is at, I'd make a point of hiding ends on the next motif finished and one additional motif until I'm caught up.) She finally found a pink ribbon to go with the necklace for her granddaughter and both necklaces are finished with clasps.