Leaves, Doilies, Gecko, Ice Drops, Button Motifs, Dangle, Edging, Yoke, Necklace, Earrings, Ornaments and Spaceship

Vera was prompted by a friend to tat another maple leaf which she remembers tatting a while ago, so she found the pattern and using the same brand of thread she recreated it, but this thread isn't the same quality, thick and thin with a matte finish, but the Maple Leaf is done and she hopes her friend likes it.

Melanie is making progress on her cro-tat doily but she is noticing differences. The doily in pastels fills every chain with some crochet edging stitches. The doily in white/cream leaves the chains bare. (Note: There may be 2 different techniques being blended together here. Cro-tatting uses a straight shank crochet hook to needle tat. Multi media tatting combines tatted lace with a  crochet chain into the picots to make a thicker band of chain in a design. It's decorative and makes a small design larger, faster and denser. Many such designs are produced in third world countries for mass sales, with experienced tatters doing the intricate parts and less skilled people to add the crochet rows.)

Sue shows 3 stages of the Chameleon Gecko in morning, noon and evening colours. The pattern, of course, is one of Jane Eborall's clever designs.

Diane attended the Palmetto Tat Days and with 25 hours of driving time she only managed to tat 8 Ice Drops. They look much better when finished off with ribbons. Her roommate, Wanda, gave her this adorable retractable clip which was hand for keeping track of her scissors. Who can pass by all the lovely tatting books especially when they aren't available elsewhere.

Fox Has been working on this doily, but the long chains have defeated her. No matter how she tried, she couldn't get nice even chains and consequently the lace looks like it's all over the place. Subsequent rows didn't pull things into place, so she's decided to cut it off and try to salvage the centre. She lost her winding tool for the pop-a-bobbin shuttle and Sally sent her a replacement along with a charming tatted button motif. Fox is bored and her cure is to tat button motifs.

Marie tweaked her pattern and finally got it to lay flat. She made another angel, dangle, with the extra thread on her shuttle. She made a hanky for herself with a simple clover design.

Martha has her yoke done, finished blocked and packed away for the Toccoa Tatdays. It took 2 1/2 balls of DMC Cordonet size 50, or maybe 2 2/3, since it's hard to judge what's left on a ball. She didn't think to measure it before it was packed, but maybe when she gets back she can measure it and give us some close ups of this gorgeous piece of lace.

Muskaan followed Vicki's suggestion to pretend she's at the Palmetto Tat Days event for a virtual tat along and worked on Noorjahan’s Rubies Bracelet. The foundation row was quick to tat up. The second row is completed,tatted continuously in one pass, 2 shuttles CTM, about 10 yards of thread and she will have the pattern for the necklace, earrings, ring, bracelet available from her blog soon. Muskaan show the Floating Teardrops for Diane and on her first rendition the outer chain was too tight. So on the second, shown on the right, she loosened it up which makes the joins on the next round easier to do. Then she did it in 2 colours. These were done in Anchor size 20 which is more like Lizbeth size 10 and the pattern is available in PDF from her blog. She finally got around to tatting Jane McLellan’s Cascade earrings, which was shared with the Online Class. She started in blue but had an unco-operative ring and had to cut at the seventh ring. She started again in yellow but didn't like the thread and went back to the blue. Jane wondered if you could substitute the Floating Beads method for adding beads, and you can but you need to tat from the top down and not from the bottom up.

HisKid is at 11 0f 24 in her quest to tat 24 ornaments. This design fits a medium sized ornaments, approximately 2 or 2 1/2 inches across. Tatted in size 20 Lizbeth Snow White, the plan was to tat the whole pattern from http://koroneczka.pl/, but the top centre would not go over the hanger piece on the large ornament and with a tiny stretch on the joining picots it fit around the medium green ornament top. She had to improvise and ended up tatting the same top and bottom sections, but left off the thrown rings and joined to them instead. Number 12 is the same pattern in white on a red ornament. Her ornament tree is starting to fill up.

Wanda attended Palmetto Tat Days and was thrilled with the goodie bag. She worked on the spaceship by Tonya Smith which was cute and not hard but she was socializing so much, she didn’t get it finished.

Star, Techniques, Doilies, Leaves, Nametag, TIAS, Ice Drops, Motifs, Button Motifs, Earrings, Bracelet, Cross, Bookmarks, Doodles, Tablecloth, Ornaments and Angels

Usha has been including Dot Picots and the Dot Picot Strings in her designs, like this star flower and a split ring braid. Her tiny diamond motif is a single shuttle design with Dot Picot Strings. Each trefoil petal is encircled with dot picot string and a mock ring of dot picot string is tatted at center of each petal in this Dot Picot Trio.

Vera was distressed at how this latest round ruffled and she was hoping that pressing it would flatten it out. If not, maybe the next round will tame it.

BattyTatter thinks these Maple leafs are fun to make and she plans to  put one on a card and use the other two for caps.

Melanie  made Tatted False Plait by Gina Brummet intending to use it as a nametag. She got her fair pieces back and had time to look through the judges comments. Now she's thinking about what colour to use next on her doily and whether to add beads or no beads.

Claire used Lizbeth thread size 20, colour Autumn Apple Pie # 169 to tat Jane Eborall's 2017 TIAS. She was interrupted and not able to finish until now, but she finally has her crinoline lady done.

Diane used her Purple Fudge pattern and Jelly Bean thread to make this Ice Drop, which seems really strange since there's neither purple nor fudge here. There is, however, the pattern for this design. A recent road trip resulted in 5 finished Ice Drops. Creating a tote bag for Palmetto Tat Days, left her so frustrated she needed some therapeutic tatting and her Minty Fudge pattern tatted in size 20 Lizbeth #119, Jelly Bean was just the soothing she needed. Again, the pattern has been included on her blog. Usha inspired her to try dot picots again with credible results.

Fox found a fancy button and some new beads, combined with some thread she acquired for a new project which resulted in a really sweet button motif. Finally, Edelweiss by Renulek, tatted in Lizbeth light silver #40, is 10" across. Another charming button motif with pale green thread and blue beads.

Margaret chose size 20 Lizbeth thread in Grape Pizzaz and white for the tat along with Alenalea, and noted that while it's a lovely pattern to tat and the outside round is very pretty, you need to watch it as she made two big cock ups and had to cut twice. She finally finished the other earring to the Pinterest post started on the 31st July using Lizbeth thread size 20 Niagara Falls, with white beads in the middle and blue seed beads on the rings, although she thinks the middle bead is too large. You can see from the Pinterest pattern that a smaller gauge bead was used.

Marie needed to empty a couple of shuttles, so she created this design which she may use to embellish a purse or box. This is a favorite, Celtic pattern from  "Il Mio Chiacchierino". She turned her  "Crosses Within A Cross," Greek cross, into a Traditional Cross. This doodle became the prototype for the "Mother's Day Brooch" and she decided to turn it into a bookmark. She emptied more shuttles coming up with this bookmark design. The design didn`t quite lay flat so she added another ring and chain. It`s still not right so she`s going to try again.

Martha had this image pop into her head when she heard Palmetto TatDay's theme was "Tat-a-Con".

Muskaan continues to play with floating beads and include marvelous pictorals on how you can do the same. Look at all the possibilities she has found for using these techniques. Even more play with floating beads.

Sue tatted these earrings in size 40 Lizbeth Angel's Love with green glass center beads and small green glass beads and they were promptly claimed by her daughter. Her daughter has quite a few tatted earrings. She tatted this tiny dangle quite a long time ago, but just found it and finished off the ends and added the hanger. This piece,with a bingo chip in the middle is tatted in size 40 Lizbeth Butterfly Breeze with plastic kids beads and tiny glass beads and features a cross in the middle. She tatted these Ice Drop earrings in size 40 Lizbeth Niagara Falls. She has added 4 more motifs to her tablecloth. And 1 more motif to the section showing the full open circles. In her latest personal challenge to tat ornaments she has one more done and here are the top, side and bottom views. She tatted 2 of Elaine P. Gan's angels in size 3 thread with an iridescent thread in it.  Using the same design as the red ornament, this one in in Snow White Lizbeth going on a red glass ornament. Here`s the finished ornament from all sides.