Mask, Cross, Necklaces, Butterfly, Heart, and Doily

Julie shows us the tatting from this year's fair, a tatted mask, a tatted square of filet, a small tatted snowflake, a large doily done in fine thread, and a magnificent tatted necklace. The altar cloth with the tatted cross is another item by Julie's grandmother.

Marta says this necklace she created reminds her of summer evenings on the lake.

Linda created a mini wall hanging with tatting and some gems to give it sparkle. The tatted cross design by Gina Butler was tucked inside.

Diane has completed yet another of her favourite Mary Konior" Spinning Wheel Glass Mat. This one is in 4-Eva HDT.

Doilies, Necklaces, Earrings, Bookmarks, Motifs and Bracelet

Marie tatted the variation of Rose Rogers's Round Robin found on Il Chiacchierino di Edda GuastallaBianchetti website in size 10 thread with a gold filament.

Julie's grandmother tatted 2 of these beautiful piano scarfs with cloth four leaf clover insets tatted into each motif. In the Colorado state fair heritage class she spied several vintage tatted pieces. The framed tatted samplers would be an interesting way to show off bits and pieces of things that didn't get used like a baby bonnet that might be too small or sections of edging that are worked and then abandoned, or trial motifs when you are working on a project. This stunning collar was one of the entries last year, as is the exquisite little sachet and this charming little pendant.

Marta has another necklace and earring set completed. This one with ecru thread ans robin's egg blue beads.

Cindy has been on vacation but she did manage to get some tatting done. The is Sherry's Helm's Deep HDT used to tat Jane from South Africa's bookmark and got a start on this one - Flower Meadow - in Lizbeth Tropical Punch.

Diane is almost finished with her Spinning Wheel Glass Mat done in 4-Eva HDT.

Fox likes the look of red beads with brown thread ever since she did Jon's pattern in a carbone ring, so the wristlet done in these colours using Karey Solomon's pattern in Lizbeth size 40 indulged her whim.

Jess received a lovely surprise package from Fox with some tatted treasures inside. One of her Motif on a Button designs went to school and got lost so it's been replaced by another.

Motifs, Bracelet, Earrings, Necklaces, Snowflakes and Doily

Tats made Kira's Star in Everything Nice HDT by Jess! and dark purple in Lisbeth size 20.

Marie did some sample borders for an altar cloth and this one called Scalloped Edging #37, done in size 10 thread from Ann Ore's, Tatting was selected. This daisy motif was done in White and Lizbeth Turquoise Twist size 20. The bracelet is Nina's pattern and the earrings, were adapted from the bracelet, tatted with DMC Embroidery Thread.

Prabhjyotsaini has been tatting more earrings. These black and white earrings were made following the pattern by Jennifer Williams.

Julie shows another of her grandmother's tatted pieces, a Bohemian style necklace with wooden beads.

Kirsten is thrilled with her fair results and the ribbons she received, a second for her coasters and a fourth place for her crown, especially since last year all she got was an honorable mention. Some of the other things she entered were some snowflakes from Festive Snowflakes & Ornaments For Needle and Shuttle Tatting edited by Barb Foster. She re-visited the blacksmith shop where the wife of the blacksmith sells the tatting she does and turned Kristen on to the joys of tatting. A class taken at the fair finally got her shuttle tatting and she went from some first time bits and pieces to a whole shuttle tatted motif.

Marty used two colors of purple Lizbeth size 20 thread and Marie Smith's method of doing split chains for this doily that won both Blue ribbon and an high blue sweepstakes ribbon.

Mini Shoes, Bookmarks, Motifs, Critters, Doilies, Edgings, Necklaces and Earrings

Wooroosa wasn't satisfied with just mini shoes, she had to go all the way to micro mini shoes. These pretty in pink shoes were tatted with polyester hand quilting thread and measure only 21.6 mm.

Margaret shows her display at the Shepton Show where one lady bought a heart to take home and show folks the thread colours and another wanted to know if the items were hand made, while watching her tat.

Lelia received a package with lots of goodies from Diane which included a Stumpy bookmark. The lovely notecard and chest were a gift from Denise, one of the Tollway Tatters. Inside the chest was more tatting which matched the shuttle Diane gave her. The tatting is now displayed on her Hello Kittys and she thinks the chest might make a good storage case for her growing shuttle collection.

Ginny is finishing up her vacation and shows us all the tatting that she has done surrounding tatting done by Maureen.

Julie shares another of her grandmother's pieces which is reminiscent of an afghan square. The trim she was working on for her daughter's dress is finally completed and of course had to be worn the second it was done. The silver tatted necklace is one of the tatted treasures that belonged to Julie's grandmother. The ruffled edge tatted doily is another piece done by her grandmother.

Marta has another necklace and earring set completed.

Diane issued a dare to tat around some doodads and took up her own dare tatting Fox's Athalia in size 20 Lizbeth #166, Pink Cocoa. Lily and Ella both asked for tatted stars so Diane tatted this one from Oh My Stars! by Kaye Judt. The second one is a little different because she forgot to change picot sizes. Here are the 2 sets ready for the birthdays.

Fox shows Julie Patterson's bookmark before, during and after blocking. Since she doesn't like ironing, she's decided pinning out her tatting is a better option, and Masquerade looks better for it. Figuring out how to get the bead below the picot was a bit of a challenge, but she has it mastered now. Umintsuru has been tatting blocks and Fox just had to join her with Sue Hanson's Snowflake pattern. The treasured bookmark from Rachel that has been missing was found by the postal worker who returned it to a very happy Fox. So, of course, Fox had to give the postal worker a lovely tatted bookmark just to say thank you. Now she's on to a pattern designed by Angeline Crichlow like the one Umintsuru used on her hanky.

Isdihara spent some time demoing at the fair. Round one of the Frauberger motif in size 40 and started another in size 20. Instructions for a second round are included in the Frauberger PDF and she hasn't yet decided what she;ll do.

Jess's little girl models the tatted hairclip, Jess finished.

Sue added her bandaid heart to a t-shirt for a friend. She ran out of Rainbow-licious HDT tatting Mary Konior's Large Cross and was able to finish it when Jess came to the rescue and sent her more.

Wanda was having trouble adding a bead to the middle of a ring and she thinks she'll have better success with a split ring. has been working on the pattern for the latest version of barefoot sandals, trying to write out on paper what she did in thread.