Edging, Buttonieres, Doilies, Lucky Pennies, Ice Drops, Motifs, Necklaces, Button Flowers, Collar, Dangle, Techniques, Earrings, Groot and rnaments

Usha tatted two variations of the vintage pattern from Tatted Edges and Insertions for Underwear published in a Needleart 1921 publication and shared by Georgia Seitz on BellaOnline. Both variations are single shuttle creations with the special effect of Dot Picot Strings or Dot Picots. The summer homework from The Tatting Newsletter of The Boutonniere from Antique Pattern Library done with Dot Picots, look like beads when they are tatted uniformly. The second Boutonniere was tatted with 2 threads simultaneously to match the fabric.

Vera has finished her doily and in size 20 thread it measures 23 cm across and took 10 grams of thread.

Sharon made this decorative sleeve designed and taught at Palmetto's Tat Days by Phyllis Schmidt of Phyl's handwork. It's an easy pattern of rings and lock chains ... or sometimes lock rings when you forget which part you are tatting, but they were easily undone and the finished work show here wrapped around her water bottle.

Cindy finished another Lucky Penny which she gave to a co-worker that is getting married. She's planning to give her hair stylist a penny for the baby she's about to have, and an ice drop for the big sister. She has been experimenting with methods of storing photos online so that she can easily use them in her posts and these are some of the Ice Drops that she has added to her cloud.

Diane won one of the raffles at Palmetto Tat Days and amongst many treasures was this pen on a retractable clip with a tatted fob. All of the excitement meant she didn't get many Ice Drops finished, but she thinks this one is her  Minty Fudge without picots. She was subbing and managed to finish another Ice Drop and found an additional one she had been working on in the bottom of her bag. She was too tired to post, but not too tired to tat. She wanted to try out this metallic thread that Lisa had at Tat Days and found it's really nice to work with. The thread is size 30, so it tats up smaller than the 20 and luckily, she had a glass gem that fit beautifully. The back is just as pretty as the front. This little fleur-de-lis designed by Linda Reiff is the only project she managed to finish on Thursday. Saturday morning class was with Erin Holloway Moseley and her Josephine Chain Square Motif was a challenge, but she finally got it figured out. Saturday afternoon started with Sharren Morgan's Chain of Violets. Sandra Eichelberger's Elegant Clovers Necklace is a challenge for Diane because of all the split rings. Wally Sosa's Button Flower Oya Igne Style was really interesting. The most difficult class for her was Linda Reiff's Mekik Oyasi Turkish Tatting.

Fox started this edging, but the beading was too much of a bother. She set that design aside for this one.

Laurette tatted the Pretty Petal Doily from Traditional Tatting Patterns by Rita Weiss, to enter in the state fair, using the magic thread trick to avoid any knots and being careful to do down joins so all the blips would be on the same side. The result is that she won the best of show ribbon!

Margaret updates us on the tatting project, a design for the neckline of a dress using Lizbeth thread size 20 and the pattern is from Jan's book Tatted Treasures.

Marie, playing with the oval motif and added another section, created a triangle.  Using up the thread on her shuttles, she loves making these little angels. She's in the mood to make another, smaller doily, this one from Jan's, "Tatted Treasures" book.

Muskaan shows a profusion of floating beads. Jane McLellan's Cascade Earrings adapted to make a Cascade Bracelet. Doctor Who inspired Red Bow Tie Tatted Necklace by Anita Barry was meant to be a necklace with jump rings and chain attached, but she intended to sew it on to a hairband. As usual she has posted step by step instructions for tatting it on her blog.

Phyllis was selected to test tat and be class helper to all of Wally Sosa's classes at Palmetto Tat Days (bottom left - suncatcher, angel, button flower oya igne style, and hybrid tatting bracelet). The final photo is Baby Groot, a crochet pattern that Phyllis converted to tatting and which won Best of Theme.

Sue made these Autumn earrings in Lizbeth size 80 Falling Leaves, using patterns for Ice Drops & Yarnplayer's Small Maple Leaves. She took the pattern from http://koroneczka.pl/ and created another ornament. Ice Drop earrings in Lizbeth size 40 Elderberry Jam with plastic purple beads.

Snowflakes, Edging, Techniques, Flag, Candle Holder, Lucky Penny, Ice Drops, Doilies, 3D Box, Yoke and Bracelet

Sharon loaded up her shuttles with her favourite snowflake colour, Blue Ice, to help a friend tat the Betsy snowflake. She has included on her blog the steps in the snowflake's construction and after tatting the first one in size 10 thread, she did it again in size 20.

Elsa has spent her time researching old books and articles that show other lace techniques combined with tatting. This model is shown in Fig. 571 of the 2nd edition of the Encyclopedia of Works of Ladies of Therese of Dillmont, which combines tatting with crochet and she worked it with a Lizbeth 40 cord and the special lace cord DMC 80.

Melanie started this project some time ago, but it's slowly taking shape. The unusual joins of the rings to the base of the ring on the previous row gives a much more stable fabric than the typical join to the chains. The finish line is in sight, all she has to do is tat and add the stars.

Cindy was dared by Fox to try tatting a button motif and she finally did it using her favourite colours of brown and turquoise. Her first try gave her nothing but knots so she decided to try it without the beads and things were going great until she joined into the wrong hole. She did finally complete it, and now on top of fabric, beads, gems and charms she might stray into collecting buttons as well. She's still working on making lucky pennies for a few brides and babies, but having a hard time finding 2017 pennies until a kind tatter offered to send her some.

Diane tried starting a new doily, but after some foolish mistakes she left it in favour of Ice Drops, first in  Caribbean with a blue glass gem. Then in pink with a pale yellow ribbon. Followed by a Green Coral Sea and orange glass gem combo. It all started with one little motif from New Tatting by Tomoko Morimoto. Then she tatted a few more and ended up with the Hydrangea Doily in New Tatting. Caribbean blue with a pink glass gem, and pink ribbon Ice Drop. She started the Hanging Garden doily and the first round, is the most complicated. She finished the second round of the Hanging Garden doily from Tatting lace with your life and likes the way Azalea Lt and Green Coral Sea look together. She pulled out her ball of Pink Cocoa and she did crave chocolate and strawberries while tatting.

Marie finished this round and has one more to go. Now to block it. Six hours later it's all blocked out to 28.5 inches, and looking gorgeous. This pattern from Nancy, at Be-Stitched makes a lovely trinket box.

Martha is working both ends toward the middle on this yoke. Only 14 motifs to go! This is going to be spectacular.

Muskaan thinks this pattern was initially intended to be something like a bracelet or a bookmark.

Sue had these beads which she bought from Fire Mountain Gems a long time ago and wanted to make something with them.  The label on the beads says  BEAD GLASS SEA OPAL 4MM and she had Lizbeth size 40 Coral Splash on a shuttle already so off she went.