Monday, September 23, 2013

Necklaces, Earrings, Teapot, Bookmarks, Edging, Motifs, Peacock, Doilies, Vest, Flowers, Anklet,

Cigdem used a tear drop shaped natural African Opal Jasper surrounded in tatting done in Altin Basak gold metallic and the polyester in gray-green thread with matching colors and fire polished faceted crystals for this pendant.

mb duke made these beautiful dream catcher earrings using Sue's pattern with vintage Star size 70 thread for her mother-in-law. this tea pot and tea cup will be going to my next door neighbor after I complete the sugar bowl, creamer and second tea cup.  The Maltese tea set from Martha Ess' Tea is for Tatting are done in Lizbeth size 20 Royal Blue and white. Lizbeth size 40 Purple Medium and Lime Green were used to tat Regina Brummett's bookmark.



Laurie picked up CQ blocks at Tat Days and used Spring Flowers in size 80 Lizbeth thread for some embellishment. The Triangular Medallion by Lisa C. Trumble was made with Lizbeth size 20 in color #117 for another block.


Ginny loves using these colours for the peacock which she recently finished.

Kristen has motif 25, Nancy Tracy's Tatted Square Motif. followed quickly by motif 26, the beginning of the round doily of the Spiderweb Dresser Set from The Tatter's Treasure Chest, which is growing rapidly even with the use of a picot gauge. She did another little practice, ring only motif, just to use up some thread, which was a good two for one project. The spider web doily is getting more web. It would have been even bigger if she hadn't actually snipped it instead of the tail end she was hiding. She hid her accidental ends and hopefully is ready to carry on.










SunshineCraft is well on her way with the mystery doily and she's liking how it looks, but she'll soon have a decision to make since she is rapidly running out of the thread colour. Now she just has to determine whether she should hunt for more of the same colour or add in some contrast.

Linda's vest is starting to take shape. She has 35 large motifs and 28 small motifs done. The DMC pattern is all rings and she made modern day changes so there are less threads to tie in utilizing SSSRs


Ancolie tatted this very classic pattern for her 20th motif. Motif 21 is another vintage doily, tatted in soft pastel colours.


Fox tatted this motif using a pattern from A New Approach to Tatting by Yusai Shokoin. The mystery doily is being worked over and over in size 30 Ivory Cebelia as dyslexia strikes again. But finally... Success!



Jess entered Livi's Doily in the local fair and it won a blue 1st place ribbon. She also entered this hair clip, which is an abbreviated version of the flower in Mary Konior's Tatting with Visual Patterns and it won a 2nd place ribbon. Anticipating fall had her dying in colours she doesn't normally choose, but it came out really well.




Margaret had a picture taken of her tatting while on holidays, just to prove that she does indeed tat while vacationing. She has listed the pattern in her Etsy store for her 3D Cymbidium Orchid earrings.


Marie show us the close-ups of the pulpit and stole. The stole edging was made up of simple rings. These exchange items are from Paula and she used the ocean and tea theme. The barefoot sandals to go on the beach with and the little butterfly was tatted by Paula's daughter.





Sue tatted Motif 5 from Tatting the Self-closing Mock Ring book by The Shuttle Brothers Gary and Randy Houtz in size 40 Lizbeth Blue Ice.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Flowers, Snowflakes, Doilies, Bookmarks, Ornaments and Motifs

Aysh has re-joined the challenge and shows us a floral picture that was her last project. She had to lay her tatting aside for a while and started this new project just to find out that she's going to need to run out and buy more thread. We all need more thread, don't we?


Carrie has finished her 25, or at least she's pretty sure she did since there was a whole flutter of butterflies that she completed. It's Birgit's Small Star done in size 10 Aunt Lydia's green and white.

SunshineCraft wanted to try the mystery doily from Georgia Seitz' website and thought she'd work in something blended with a strand of gold thread instead of plain white, but it doesn't look like it will block nicely. The next try looks like it's a keeper done in variegated Anchor pearl cotton.


Diane loves Libeth Blue Ice, a fabulous colour for snowflakes like this pattern; Delima from Elegant Tatting Gems by Jon Yusoff.

Fox tried out some King Tut thread that Frivole sent her, using Mary Konior's Buttercup, but it's really tiny and she doesn't think she'll be using it again, although the colour is gorgeous. Fox has also been inspired to give the mystery doily a try using the thread she got for the trellis doily. Just for a change of pace she has some beads and thread that will do nicely for a Japanese pattern that she has finally worked out.



Margaret shares some bookmarks she completed. The Spiral Bookmark in white and Tropical Punch and Kersti's Floral Tatted bookmark in Pink Parade, all size 20 Lizbeth. Then there is the Rose and Butterfly bookmark by Jeanne Lugart in a rather old thread by Coats


Marie forgot to take pictures of all the Christmas balls she did for her aunt. She did a total of 16 two inch balls in size 30 crochet thread. This is the last of a batch of 14 Christmas balls, which were done in size 20 crochet thread with lots of beads. In all she's done 63 balls for her aunt's tree. The pattern from "Tatting" by Anne Orr was used in the paraments for her church made with size 10, gold crochet thread with a gold filament.



Wanda made these motifs in Lizbeth #662 Turquoise Light size 20 which she planned to put on a denim purse. Instead she will mount them on a wooden heart.