Heart, Doilies, Bracelet, Edging, Brooch and Dragonfly

Jane tatted Jane Eborall's Fandango Heart although she's not planning on making the doily, she just wants something to put on Isabel's dress.

Nikki finished her Renulek 2014 doily, finding several mistakes in the second to the last row so she got her first taste of cutting out 5 inches of lace and untatting several inches so she could join in more thread. She used 3 different brands of thread on this one and she's going to call this a lesson learned not to make that mistake again.

Elsa is participating in the Creativity and Tatting contest for the second year and the challenge is to start with an Anne Orr edging pattern and change the nodes and size, increase, decrease, add or remove pins, add beads, seed beads or whatever pleases you and create something that inspires you. She created a baroque-bohemian bracelet with a celtic flair.

Melanie is working on this design by Nina Libin and she knows she had the right number of beads added, but it appears as if one broke and now she's going to have to be creative to add in a replacement bead.

Sue is using Lizbeth Summer Fun thread, dark blue silver lined beads, silver beads, pink silver lined beads, green beads, white buttons and lilac beads in this dazzling bit of lace.

Diane messed up on the third pass of Renulek's Snowflake Cappuccino and rather than try and figure out the mess she snipped and started over. she just got started and it got messed up again. The third time was the charm, and now she's back on track using size 20 Lizbeth, Pineapple Parfait. The finished size is 4 1/2" point to point.  The Spinning Wheel glass mat from Tatting with Visual Patterns by Mary Konior is being done in size 80 colour #158 Niagara Falls.

Fox has completed row one and is on to round two of the border for this fabric circle.

Kristen has decided Edgings are officially her nemesis. She started with this design for a vintage hanky and it was fine, until she got to the corner. The tiny rings were going everywhere but straight. So then she started over with this pattern. It was working out fine until this row, which just isn't playing nicely.

Marie started a new collection called the Stacked-Ring Brooch Collection and this one is the 2-Layered Flower Brooch made with size 20 thread. She made this brooch with DMC thread. She has included the pattern for this design on her blog so you can make your own.

Martha has been playing with Jane Eborall's Fandango Heart adding in lock stitch chains.

Muskaan admired Vinita Sharma's Spring Doily and she started it in green, but ran out of thread on her shuttle, so she did it again in green and yellow. The second time the long chains were tatted too tight as the chains were curling. So she did it again and then pinned it out and blocked it. when she tatted it again she paid special attention to the chains and it did come out neater and a wee bit smaller. You can see the 2 doilies together. The curling chains apparently are due to hubby not moving the doily and the candle stand when dusting.

HisKid is about half way through this round of her doily and circumstances are going to make it hard to continue to work on her doily in secret.

Wanda wanted a dragonfly to decorate a card for her Mom who likes dragonflies and she came up with this design.

Doilies, Snowflakes, Motifs, Star, Butterflies, Cross, Hatband and Lanyard

Mistene likes how her Renulek's Spring 2016 Doily is coming along but it's still curling. She hasn't done any blocking and hopes it will start to flatten out.

Pop Maria is continuing with the Craftree challenge and tatted Lene Bjorn's Fourteenth Day of December, which isn't her favourite snowflake but she enjoyed working it. She felt the need to make something more geometric and tatted Amethyste by Pascale Provost in white a her own HDT in shades of pink.

Nikki mailed off her 4th of July projects she had been working on for a while, late, but finally sent. She made 18 of these little stars using a pattern called Twinkle Twinkle by Joelle Paulson done in red white and blue.

Sue decided to make the patterns in the Ring of Tatters DVD's and here's the first in the techniques.

Diane made this Butterfly Effect motif from Tatting Lace with Your Life, in size 20 Lizbeth #616, Daffodil Med. The second motif is in Lizbeth #170, Pineapple Parfait. The third motif for the doily is in Lizbeth #138, Leafy Green. Before getting into canning beets she made another motif. Working steadily she completed 7 motifs for a doily that looks like a bouquet of flowers and  measures 5 inches across. Her favourite Spinning Wheel glass mat from Tatting with Visual Patterns by Mary Konior is in size 20 Lizbeth, Leafy Green, one of my favourite colours. And here it is all finished. She was sure she had enough, but with a short bit to finish she ran out of Helm's Deep HDT. She's going to keep the shuttles attached for now and check her stash for more thread.

Eliz tatted these Butterflies with Ikuta Overlapping Picots by Ninetta Caruso. The one on the left is Lizbeth colour #112 and the one on the right is Flora colour #228, both size 20.

Fox had to cut off part of a row and didn't have enough to finish off the Rectangle doily, so she's decided to omit the final row and it's sitting proudly under her Mom's soapstone carving. She's started this doily for Maeve but she's a bit disappointed in the colours, which are Maeve's favourites.

Muskaan tatted Floral Coaster Six Petals (split ring variation) by Robin Perfetti in Anchor Mercer size 20, 0289 yellow and 1215 shaded green. Then she folded various sections of the yellow flowers and show a lot of different variations can be achieved. She tatted The Fifteenth Day of December Snowflake by Lene Björn from 24 Snowflakes in Tatting in Anchor Mercer size 40 thread in white and explains some of her trials in making the snowflake.

Phyllis says this Spinning Wheel Glass Mat by Mary Konior was tatted in  DMC Traditions thread and while she didn't like the feel of the thread, she did like the colour. It will be heading to the Palmetto Tatters Guild for their scholarship fundraiser.

HisKid is happy with how Renulek's 2016 Spring Doily is working. The top of her Flourish with the Cross is done, now she just has to complete the bottom. The cross is tatted in size 20 Lizbeth Caribbean and Lilac Dk. She started row 14 on the doily.

Wanda started a lanyard with beads in DMC Cebelia Lavender, but she didn't like how it was coming out, so now it's a hatband. She started again, but was in such a hurry she didn't bother to string any beads on. Here they are together all ready for the Palmetto Tat Days.