Motifs, Doilies, Train, Doodles, Bracelet, Cross, Alphabet and Earrings

Jane has been tatting Teiko Fujito's designs that use a lot of bare threads and to avoid them she tried out encapsulation. She's well into the last motif in the three shuttle section, and she's trying to follow Teiko Fujito's patterns exactly,  so probably won't use the encapsulation route. Motif 49 is worked in size 40 thread; the lilac is Olympus, the green and white are Coats and it measures 16 cm across. She blocked it before she did the outer chain and decided that the 2 ds between 'arms' on the pattern just wasn't going to work, so she increased it to 5 ds. This picture is all of the designs she done from this section of the book.

Pop Maria was on holidays but she die get several of of Pascale Provost's Amethyste motifs done. It has a border, but she likes how it looks without and may just leave it.

Nikki was looking for another project to do and decided on Renulek's Wiosna 2015 doily, which is pretty easy to follow up to row 7 and if she can't follow it after that she can just quit.

Batty Tatter added Sherry's train pattern to a pink engineer's hat and she might add a puff of smoke coming out of the stack. She's still undecided as to whether or not to add an edging around the brim.

Elsa has been working on her harlequin shawl, but it had too sharp a point at the tip. Fortunately after discussing it with Maglina she made a modification to her arrangement and now things are working out. Her projected shawl has 137 wheels for a total width estimated at 130 cm and she currently has 38 done.

Diane's newest Spinning Wheel is in the gorgeous blue Majestic thread size 80 #849. Running a lot of errands meant for little tatting time, but she did get a bit done. Tangles in tiny threads take a long time to sort out so she didn't get as far on her Spinning Wheel as she expected. She finally has this Spinning Wheel finished and it's 3.5 inches across. Emptying shuttles means she has a nice little baggie of tatted doodles done to give away. Her baggie of butterflies and bits is growing. Another Spinning Wheel glass mat is started, this one in Perfect Quilter Denim.

Marie has another Egyptian-style bracelet created. Katrine, by Lene Bjorn is one of her favourite crosses.

Muskaan did Floral Fantasy Doily by Kathleen Minniti and as usual has shown step by step what she did and the techniques she used. Anchor Crochet Cotton that is made in India by Madura Coats is thicker than other size 20s & 40s threads as she discovered in her first attempt at making Elizabeth (aka Woven Center Flower) by Robina Melville. She increased the picot size to get it to work. She loves the final result. She did have to re visit her earlier attempts at woven picots for review.

Phyllis tatted the Cobweb doily from the book Tatting Doilies & Edgings edited by Rita Weiss, in Lizbeth 138 Leafy Greens, size 20. Phillip's name along with the train she test tatted for Martha, will be a nice addition to his room and is made using the alphabet from Tatting ABC's & 123's by Houstine Cooper & Handy Hands done in Lizbeth size 20 in Royal Blue and Ocean Turquoise Lt.

Wanda enjoyed the lanyard pattern so much she tried making earrings to go with it in Lizbeth #646 Purple Iris Lt in size 20.  She entered the bracelet in the fair and took first prize with it. He Harper Edging on the fabric circle also won first prize.

Motifs, Choker, Hat, Bracelet, arrings, Pendants and Doilies

Jane finished round two of the Teiko motif, which looks less square than she expected, but maybe the transition and the next round will give the square look. It's looking a little more square and following Jon's suggestion she blocked the bare threads to zigzag to give it more interest. Motif 47 is much like 46 but she shortened the bare threads, which she could have shortened even more. The cream thread is Cebelia, as is the pink and the green is Milford; all size 20. Motif 48 really is square, larger than expected, 11 cm across in size 20 thread and would look good repeated. She joined the little corner flowers in the wrong place twice, catching the mistake quite soon the first time, but missing out one pattern repeat the second time, but she realized fixing the mistake was as easy as cutting off the corner flower.

Nikki used a pattern from Tatted Bookmarks edited by Barbara Foster to make this choker in size 20 Lizbeth thread. She found it challenging to work in size 20 thread rather than size 10 and the dark colour made things doubly hard.

Batty Tatter used fabric glue to attach the previously tatted heart and a matching edging to this child's hat and as hard as the glue was to work with, I bet it's a lot easier than sewing the tatting on.

Sue chose colours to match her dress and made this bracelet, earring and pendant set using Jane Eborall's pattern.

Diane finished round 4 of Renulek's Napkin Marta without any problems using size 80 Majestic #833, in a very pretty shade of green. Round 5 is in size 80 Majestic # 825, a colour that she really likes. A visit from family she hasn't seen in a while meant that there wasn't a lot of tatting time, but she did get this round finished. She started round 6 of Renulek's Napkin Marta in size 80 Majestic #849, a colour that she loves, but it just wasn't working. Since pressing didn't improve it, she's thinking that she needs larger picots, or she'll have to play with the stitch count, but as it's the last row she'' be able to play around with it and make it work.

Fox decided that when an unfixable error was discovered in her last post, that she just couldn't stand the red colour. So she switched to softer colours and started again, but with more beads.

Marie likes the way the embellishment worked out on this pendant. This tatted piece was exchanged for two spools of thread. Tatting around this single earring turned it into a lovely pendant.

Muskaan is working through Renulek’s Wiosna 2016 and round 13, which finally stopped ruffling, is 14¼" in size 40 thread. Round 14 is 15¾" in size 40. Round 15 is larger than 17” and took much longer than she thought. Round 16 brought it up to 19 inches across and it was a quick and enjoyable tat mostly because of the lack of picots, but she did run out of thread frequently on this round. She decided to tat the last round in Anchor Mercer size 40 cream 0300 for the rings and shaded red/black 1206 for the chains. She had a couple of false starts, but soon got into the swing of things and the finished size is 21 inches.

HisKid is tatting along on her doily but these outer rows are taking forever. She's about half way through this round.