Ornaments, Snowman, Snowflakes, Ice Drops, Earrings, Dragonflies, Doilies and Star

Vera went with a white ball and red tatting on this ornament just for a change. She first tried out the tatting and then formed it around the ornament. Red lace of white to go with the white lace on red ornaments she has already done.

Melanie created a snowman for an ornament exchange worked in size 10 crochet thread with size 6 and 10 beads and in a few weeks time if anyone is interested she might be persuaded to put the pattern in writing.

Cindy received these snowflakes in an exchange at the Twin Cities Tatters December gathering.

Diane has managed to tat a simple  Ice Drop while subbing. This Bloomin' Ice Drop was finally finished off.

Marie tatsmithed around coral to make these earrings. Another pair done in purple. This Ice Blue snowflake was designed in 2010 and Marie has now provided the pattern for it.

Martha has another quilt square for next year's Palmetto fundraiser and the orange dragonfly in the centre stripe is from Karey Solomon's "Flutter Home" with a little shorted tail and picots instead of beads. The purple dragonfly is from Patricia Rizzo's "The Gentle Art of Tatting Things We Love." The blue one is Sharren Morgan's Flag-Tailed Dragonfly" from the Palmetto 2010 pattern CD. While the blue and purple one is sort of a mash-up of those two patterns.

Muskaan shows the next round on her doily. Her next foray is into multi-colour Cluny tatting.

Sue is still addicted to Ice Drops, like this Birthday Ice Drop with size 20 Lizbeth Snow White and red and gold beads. Another one was completed in red and green. She also did a pair of her original Ice Drop earrings.

Wanda was travelling to visit family and found this Tatted star on display at the hostess station in the restaurant they were eating in which was tatted by the manager's mother.

Heart, Doilies, Bracelet, Edging, Brooch and Dragonfly

Jane tatted Jane Eborall's Fandango Heart although she's not planning on making the doily, she just wants something to put on Isabel's dress.

Nikki finished her Renulek 2014 doily, finding several mistakes in the second to the last row so she got her first taste of cutting out 5 inches of lace and untatting several inches so she could join in more thread. She used 3 different brands of thread on this one and she's going to call this a lesson learned not to make that mistake again.

Elsa is participating in the Creativity and Tatting contest for the second year and the challenge is to start with an Anne Orr edging pattern and change the nodes and size, increase, decrease, add or remove pins, add beads, seed beads or whatever pleases you and create something that inspires you. She created a baroque-bohemian bracelet with a celtic flair.

Melanie is working on this design by Nina Libin and she knows she had the right number of beads added, but it appears as if one broke and now she's going to have to be creative to add in a replacement bead.

Sue is using Lizbeth Summer Fun thread, dark blue silver lined beads, silver beads, pink silver lined beads, green beads, white buttons and lilac beads in this dazzling bit of lace.

Diane messed up on the third pass of Renulek's Snowflake Cappuccino and rather than try and figure out the mess she snipped and started over. she just got started and it got messed up again. The third time was the charm, and now she's back on track using size 20 Lizbeth, Pineapple Parfait. The finished size is 4 1/2" point to point.  The Spinning Wheel glass mat from Tatting with Visual Patterns by Mary Konior is being done in size 80 colour #158 Niagara Falls.

Fox has completed row one and is on to round two of the border for this fabric circle.

Kristen has decided Edgings are officially her nemesis. She started with this design for a vintage hanky and it was fine, until she got to the corner. The tiny rings were going everywhere but straight. So then she started over with this pattern. It was working out fine until this row, which just isn't playing nicely.

Marie started a new collection called the Stacked-Ring Brooch Collection and this one is the 2-Layered Flower Brooch made with size 20 thread. She made this brooch with DMC thread. She has included the pattern for this design on her blog so you can make your own.

Martha has been playing with Jane Eborall's Fandango Heart adding in lock stitch chains.

Muskaan admired Vinita Sharma's Spring Doily and she started it in green, but ran out of thread on her shuttle, so she did it again in green and yellow. The second time the long chains were tatted too tight as the chains were curling. So she did it again and then pinned it out and blocked it. when she tatted it again she paid special attention to the chains and it did come out neater and a wee bit smaller. You can see the 2 doilies together. The curling chains apparently are due to hubby not moving the doily and the candle stand when dusting.

HisKid is about half way through this round of her doily and circumstances are going to make it hard to continue to work on her doily in secret.

Wanda wanted a dragonfly to decorate a card for her Mom who likes dragonflies and she came up with this design.