Leaves, Motifs, Heart, Flowers, Snowflakes, Dragon, Edging and Butterflies

Yvonne tatted Canadian Sugar Maple leaf and it was designed by Gale Marshall in Lizbeth Falling Leaves.

Marta finishes off her 25 by tatting some designs in miniature in Madeira Metallic thread. Not having a gold hoop the right side she strung gold beads on 2 strands of thread and while it worked it wasn't as stiff as she wanted it. So she thinks sewing these on the dark fabric, you can trim like a circle of plastic, might be a good solution.

Lily tatted Joy's Heart by Sandra Scales to embellish a dress and added a longer picot in the centre that she could add a crystal to. She has tatted 2 more of Linda's Old Tulip, one in DMC cotton perle size 8 in color 718 and Coats size 20 in baby pink, while the other is Tridalia Super by Coats in a pink grapefruit color.

Sue received some of Heather's Harvest Time HDT in size 30 and tatted a triangular motif from DMC Library Tatting and joined the triangles together as closely as possible. She's hoping to make a small doily.

Diane has finally completed her October snowflake. It's a pattern from DMC Festive Tatting, done in DMC perle cotton size 12.

Fox has finished the Seahorse Dragon from Anne Bruvold and Deb Arnold using HDT from Karey Solomon.

Kathy tatted Butterfly Twins by Eliz Davis and found that it was a quick pattern to test out variegated threads. She mounted one in a pendant and two more on a greeting card. She found some eye glass leashes and added some of her mounted motifs to make instant necklaces.

Kelly tatted an edging on a hankie and made another baby bonnet for her mother to take to a baby shower. She has included the little poem that goes with it on her blog.

Bookmarks, Snowflakes, Motifs and Flowers

Bree picked up some Coats & Clark, size 100 of cotton wrapped polyester which tats up very tiny especially when compared to the white size 20 Lizbeth.

Ingrid tatted a bookmark with Goldmann polyester thread using the pattern that Wanda shared. it was too fine for a bracelet, but it works sell as a bookmark. This is the centerpiece of a doily designed by Jan Voskes published in an issue of the Frivolité(k)ring, a Dutch newsletter but she miscounted the picots on the chain and doesn't want to continue with it this way since it probably won't fit right with the rest of the design.

Isabel used Gina Butler's pattern to tat an assortment of charming hats which were decorated with little flowers for her local tatting group.

Linda was at a quilt show with a featured artist. This is one of the quilt blocks in the display.

Wanda used Lizbeth Falling Leaves and black in size 20 for this bookmark, then looking ahead to winter she tatted a snowflake and tree bookmark from DMC's Tatting for Today in white although the bookmark isn't exactly as written.

Diane has been receiving things in the mail. First there was a card embellished with tatting from Tatting Marie, then there was motif with clunies from Fox, that came with buttons and a decorated shuttle.

Fox used Krystle's lovely watermelon HDT and crimson beads to tat this pattern by Samantha Melnychuk. She needed a wee break before starting the green dragon. The need for the break may have something to do with walking into a window. I can relate having had a similar event getting up close and personal with a floor.

Laura attended a workshop in Melbourne, Victoria which resulted in a lot of travel time with nothing much to do, so of course she tatted. Here are 3 versions of Stumpy done in assorted perle 8 variegated thread left over from some bobbin lace projects. I didn't think Laura had forgotten, but with all of her other projects I was wondering if she had any time for tatting.

Mica likes Day 20 from Bjørn's 24 Snowflakes in Tatting, but SCMRs are hard to make using metallic thread. So here is her variation omitting the top ring which obviates the need for them, and much improves the look of the snowflake.

Motifs, Pumpkins, Edgings, Doily and Bookmark

Hattalahutta tatted the Small Cross from Mary Konior's Tatting with Visual Patterns in Lizbeth 20 in "Vineyard Harvest" and Puppets/Eldorado in black. She had to modify the stitch count a bit because the 2 threads aren't an exact match in size.

Sue has round 9 of the doily completed and it's about 14.5 inches across now.

Linda has been making Halloween postcards. The first postcard uses a wheel from Patty Duff's Motif Book for a wheelbarrow, pumpkins from Sherry Matthew and the bat and pumpkin edging from Mark Myers. The second postcard is crazy quilt with Mark Myer's ghost and Sherry Matthew's pumpkin and a pumpkin edging from Heidi Sunday. The Pumpkin teapot is an easy pattern from Martha Ess that makes a nice tea cup coaster.

Diane has been on a shopping spree buying all kinds of tatting treats including some size 80 Lizbeth and one of Shirl's upcycled shuttles that she's already had a chance to try out.

Fox made a small motif with some Sulky thread, but the mock rings weren't a good choice. So she looked for a different design to try and the next one was much better, although retro tatting mistakes was difficult. So she tried again and slowed down to enjoy the experience with this shiny and metallic copper and brown, rust and gold thread and mostly had success.

Bookmarks, Doily, Dragon, Flowers and Motifs

Yvonne tatted some of the flowers from her new book, Tatting Rings of Flowers. The next motif from Mini Tats is made in size 10 using LT Pastels colour and she thinks she might turn it into a Christmas ornament.

Bree tatted the motif called Elegance from Lyn Morton's Tatting Patterns in #10 DMC cotton in soft yellow.

Corina used a carpet needle and yarn to tat Kersti's Floral bookmark. The second motif is from Georgia Seitz site is made with much finer thread.

Sue tatted Mary Konior's Large Cross in Lizbeth Lilac Dk size 40 and then did the Small Cross in Lizbeth Fruit Fizz and Lilac Dk. size 40, but made a mistake which was cleverly covered up by a butterfly.

Cindy has been practicing lots of techniques, but hasn't really finished anything.

Ann's lovely tatting press finally arrived and I've had the opportunity to try it out. It's a wonderful way to carry your tatting keep it neat and not have any tangled shuttles.

Fox is tatting Anne's dragon pattern in their favourite colours for her grandchildren to be given to them in December. She's sending the hats decorated with Umintsuru's dragonfly pattern to New York. She has plans to use some of the fine threads received from the thread exchange to tat the vintage motif she showed us earlier.

Kelly used Lizbeth Autumn Spice to tat Mary Konior's Spinning Wheel glass mat.

Martha has been busy tatting lots of things including Pamela Kite's Christina Edging from Georgia's Tatting Online book in Lizbeth variegated #130 and Raspberry Pink #623. Anne B's Seahorse Dragon was tatted in handpainted thread by Karey Solomon and a silver/grey Lizbeth. The Blooming Trellis Bookmark by Eliz is worked in assorted vintage size 70/80 thread. Lauren Snyder's Pearl Tatted Bookmark is also from the Tatting Online book.