Doilies, Button Motifs, Ice Drops, Bookmarks, Edging, Yoke, Techniques, Motif

Vera finished the 7 repeats of the 4th row and started the 5th row even though she has some pain in her palm. She really likes how it's turning out

Marthanne started 2 of Renulek's 2017 doilies; one in size 20 white, and one in size 40 Latte Foam. In size 20 it's 18 1/4 inches and in Latte Foam it's 15 1/2 inches. Either way it's gorgeous.

Cindy is still working on 2017 lucky pennies, most recently for expected babies - one of unknown gender, and one expected girl. She likes the Springtime Lizbeth – it has the perfect colours for any baby. She had this interesting button that was perfect for a button motif, but when it was completed it didn't look as neat as the ones Fox did. After some explanation she tatted it again with superior results.

Diane still has plenty of Lizbeth Jelly Bean left and it goes well with many of the glass gems she has. It's also easy to coordinate ribbons with it. It's been a while since she worked on Renulek's Wiosna 2017, since she misplaced the pattern. Lots of other things are claiming her time, so there's only a little tatting of Ice Drops happening. She's back to subbing, but did manage 2 Ice Drops.

Fox loves the light silver thread she's using for Renulek's doily which is on the penultimate row.

Marie made a mistake adding an extra ring on this Iris Neibach design. She found the woven picots challenging. She saw this pattern in the Handy Hands news letter and wanted to try it.

Martha thought of adding some small motifs in the large empty spaces of her yoke and when Sherry sent her a picture of the one she did 20 years ago it was evident that Martha and Sherry had the same idea.

Muskaan started out trying to hang a large crystal bead inside a ring - a thrown/floating ring and she couldn't find a tutorial. She was tempted to ask her beading friend but decided to work it out on her own. There were a lot of mistakes, but she finally had success. She had her idea tested out. Gradually the floating beads method evolved. It works not only in thrown rings, but regular rings. It even works on a string of beads inside the ring. Then another idea struck - how about using the string as as a central picot? One of her patterns, Curly Cross Pendant, has been published in a Dutch magazine De Frivolité(k)ring. She experimented with tatting around a gem in gold metallic thread. After working on floating beads in a ring, she did it again in a chain.

Sue has a start on her tatting, but hopes to have something more impressive later on.

Edging, Pumpkins, Snowflakes, Doilies, Leaves, Jewellery, Cross, Motif and Earrings

Jane notes that Edging 96 is essentially the same as the pattern she used for her first big tatting project, in the early 1980s, an edging for a cloth for her tea trolley. Edging 97 is a lot more original and she the half open rings needed a bit of practise, but it turns out they're an easy alternative to split rings or SSSRs to get from A to B. She wondered why the butterflies on Edging 98 weren't joined to each other, but speculates that it would work for a circular or curved edging. Edging 99 is essentially the same as 98, with an extra row added to join them together and it's her least favourite of the butterfly edgings.

Nikki has been looking for a pumpkin pattern for a project and found the one on the left on You tube and the one on the right is Mark Myers apple pattern done in orange, although the stem doesn't look very pumpkin-y.

Sarah finds the centre of Miranda Rensberger's Starflower captivating.

Melanie used orange rope to tat the Tatted Celtic Knot Pumpkin by Rozella Linden to make a decoration for her front door. Now that it's done she's thinking she might want something larger.

Diane started another Spinning Wheel glass mat using size 80 Lizbeth in #664, Ocean Teal Med. She's making some progress on the Spinning Wheel, but spending some time de-stashing by weaving with mini balls of left over yarn. Still more progress on the Spinning Wheel and it'll soon be done. Here it is finally finished.

Eliz is following Muskaan's TWoT project and personally challenged herself to tat a mirror image laurel leaf using Muskaan's pattern in size 20 Cebelia, sage green.

Fox is finally, on to Row 12 and a colour change. The doily measures 15", there is still a bit of ruffling, but it's mainly disappeared and best of all she still likes it a lot.

Lilas has been working on lots of tatting for the upcoming show and she has been inspired to create lots of tatted flowers.

Marie tatted another favourite cross from a pattern by Roger from the Needle Tatting Forum. The lucet handle she made needed a little embellishment. Since people have asked, she has done a step by step tutorial showing how she embellishes old jewellery.

Muskaan shows each step in completing tattingweed’s Crinoline Doily, working through all it's twists and turns.

Sue has been tatting, but hasn't taken pictures, except for these dreamcatcher earrings tatted in size 40 Tatskool Rainbow Bright HDT.