Edgings, Doilies, Motifs, Peacock, Leaves, Butterflies, Bookmarks and Easter Egg

Marie made the shuttle box from Dianna Stevens book, "It's in the Bag!" and decorated it with size 30 crochet thread, gold and blue 6/0 beads, larger blue beads, and opalite beads. There's tatting on the front, back and bottom attached with Tacky Glue and it's big enough to hold size 12 pearl cotton thread, two shuttles and a doily.

Frivole thought that the quatrain motif would make a lovely edging across the top of her piano, but then she realized it would cover over the music unless it was done in a much finer thread, which of course would take muck longer to tat. She re-did the Butterflies edging in white and it looks so pretty. The peacock from the same book seems to have a mistake in the pattern, or her translation of the German is wrong because after this point it doesn't seem to work, so she may just wing it and tat what she sees rather than what's written.

Jess created this motif and shares the pattern on her blog. The Dahlia pattern is almost completed, but the threads seem to have taken a walk along with her tatting bag.

Heather's students from the Citizen Schools are making chains with picots and rings and for those still struggling she showed them how to needle tat.

Linda has one side of the CQ pocket book done with lots of tatted embellishments, like leaves and butterflies and edgings and motifs.

Diane is enjoying tatting with the Sulky blendables and matching them with her shuttles, as it's giving her an opportunity to do a photo journal of her work and her shuttle collection. The next two shuttles are SewMates loaded with size 20 Lizbeth, so I decided to tat Stumpy with them. There's quite a difference in the size. She started the Oval Doily from A New Twist on Tatting and she found that tatting it with two colours of size 20 Lizbeth, #670 and #685, helped her keep track of what she was doing.

Marty tatted two pendants in Oren Bayan variegated gold metallic and size 15 glass seed beads using patterns from Jon Yusoff's Tatting with Rings as a gift for a business associate to give to his girlfriend.

Wanda tatted this Easter Egg for a challenge on Intatters a couple of years ago and thought she'd do it again in Lizbeth #115 Springtime, size 20.

Crosses, Shamrocks, Easter Eggs, Edging, Errings, Motifs, Snowflakes, Doilies, Bookmark and Heart

Marie tatted crosses from Lene Bjorn's Tatted Bookmarks. Maria was done in size 10 thread in white with an iridescent filament, and gold, with a gold filament. Christina was tatted in size 80 in peach colours of Star thread. Monica was tatted in size 80 in Lizbeth Wildflower Garden. Camilla was done in size 80 in pink and purple Star thread. Malene was tatted in size 80 in pink and purple Star thread.

JB posted a lovely St Patrick's Day Shamrock. Egg #16 from Tatted Easter Eggs is made from Lizbeth Pink Cocoa.

Frivole tatted this pretty butterfly border pattern from Occhi Schiffchenspitze Frivolité by Marianne Langwieser and Tatiana Scharowa in Altin Basak 50 in colour 3053.

Lelia shares some tatted shamrocks for St Patrick's Day. The first is Irish for a Day pattern designed by Sherren from her blog at Sherren's Random Stitches. The second is Lucky Seven Shamrocks pattern from Gina Brummett, Threads of a Tatting Goddess.

Jess started with the idea of tatting a butterfly, but then it seemed it was a dragonfly, but it turned out to be a bumble bee.

Jessica tatted some earrings that are simple clovers joined by a chain, but it lacked a little something. She did another variation adding a large single ring to give it a little more splash. The thread was some vintage glace thread from the American Thread Company that she found in a box of stuff at the thrift store.

Kristen is still tatting from Lyn Morton's book Tatting Patterns. This is the Five Point Snowflake in yellow and blue and Simplicity in white. I know I saw Lyn Morton's 4-petal Peggy that Kristen did in February, but a quick check back doesn't show it here, so I must have missed posting it, so here it is.

IsDihara tatted Regal Snowflake by La Cossette Is'Dihara in Lizbeth size 20 Snow White #601 with pale blue Swarovski crystals and blue seed beads.

Bree has finished the 3rd row of her doily and she can't decide if she wants to change colours for this row or stay with ecru.

Diane loves the Sulky blendables and while they might not look wonderful on the spool, they look lovely tatted up in Kersti's Stumpy. She tatted a few more in shades of yellow and shows off the shuttle with -I love Books- on the back, which is really appropriate for a librarian. After all of this trying out of threads she has more tatting to send off to Chris at The Shuttle Shop.

Fox tatted Pattern by Karey Solomon pattern in Lizbeth Thread size 40 and it's a perfect St Patrick's day heart. The edge on the egg didn't look right and had to be
re-tatted when cutting the edge also cut through a picot. The solution was to make the picots shorter. Finally the edging looks scalloped just like the book cover.

Kathy has created a display of green items including a pendant made from a Rosemarie Peel design) that she put on one of her black velvet discs and attached to a beaded necklace.

Kelly has her next project ready to go using some Karey Solomon size 20 HDT called Season changing.

Sherry tatted this little snowflake from Jon Yusoff's Tatted Snowflakes Collection book.