Lanyard, Doilies, Easter Egg, Ice Drops, Garland, Tablecloth, Crosses and Bunny

Usha is still playing with colour and style to make her lanyards. Sky blue Anchor thread size 20 is used for her 7th lanyard which features split rings tiny shiny white beads and big blue bead between. The next one uses Grey Anchor size 20 thread with golden bugle beads and black seed beads. Followed by a lanyard that uses the same design as her 6th one.

Vera has been working on Renulek's Spring 2017 doily rounds 6 and 7 and she's made great progress. These lovely Easter eggs show to great advantage how to turn edgings and motifs into delightful ornaments.

Cindy finally branched out to another variation of the Ice Drop and she doesn't know if this one has a name or not, but she likes it. The bright sunshine gave her a nice backdrop to photograph this selection of Ice Drops.

Diane found that lovely weather outside gave her a chance to open the windows, blow out the stale air and sit and tat, Ice Drops, of course. Sounds like a perfect day to me. Her glass gems have been sitting out in bowls looking pretty, and getting dusty, so she washed them all of and stored them in mason jars where they look just a pretty, but take less dusting, which of course gives more time for tatting. Red gems with white lace and different coloured ribbons make for gorgeous Ice Drops. This is her Blue Fudge pattern with a slight variation of chains on the final round  shortened from 9 to 7 stitches because she was afraid of running out of thread. She finished off a couple more Ice Drops in white just as her daughter and grandkids arrived so Sophie chose the blue ribbon to go with this one. This is one of Marilee Rockley's hand-dyed threads and those HDTs just can't be beat for the pizzazz they add to tatting.

Fox found Row 9 took lots of attention and lots of untatting (and I bet a few choice words), but is is ever pretty.

Marie was given some crocheted egg parts by her aunt a completed them by sewing them around plastic eggs and adding decorations to the middles. Tatted flowers, tatted bits with beads, tatted motifs and little doodles are some of the scrap pieces she put to good use.

Muskaan took her marigold braid, her mustard fields and her Jasmine braid and joined them together to make one intricate design.

Sue has tatted enough motifs to stretch the length of her table which makes it seem like it's so much closer to being done, except the to make it fit across the table and hang down a foot on each side means it's going to take a gazillion more motifs. Stay tuned for lots more progress. She also tatted 2 more rainbow crosses using the Big Cross pattern in size 10 thread from Tatting Patterns & Designs by Gun Blomqvist and Elwy Persson. The pink one is Resurrection Cross from Elaine P. Gan tatted in size 40 Lizbeth Pink Blossoms.

Wanda had brown Lizbeth #698 size 10 on shuttles already, so she used that with white Lizbeth #601 size to make the bunny. The head is a ring, the body are chains, and the tail is a Single Shuttle Split Ring. The one without the tail is her first one seen from the front with paws. She plans on using these on bookmarks or cards and she'll glue them so that the little  knot doesn't show.

Bracelet, Earrings, Ice Drops, Doilies, Brooch, Teapot, Bookmarks, Fish, Garland and Snowflake

Elsa shared this updated version of a vintage Nellie Ellison pattern with her French group to show how old designs can be used to make modern projects like bracelets and earrings. She started by making a bracelet in cotton, then a second in polyester beaded thread. Of course every bracelet needs matching earrings, so she made them too. All the designs for this set named Flamenca,  with instructions are included on her blog.

Melanie shares a sneak peek at an Ice Drop design she is working on.

Cindy was in a panic when she couldn't find the Renulek Spring 2015 large doily she was working on, but thankfully it turned up and now she needs to finish it off.

Diane is still working from her ball of size 20 Lizbeth #689, Mint Lt and loving it. She cracked some more glass gems and she loves how they refract the light. She's been busy subbing and needed some tatting time to replenish her stock of Ice Drops. Luckily her basic pattern doesn't take long to finish. At the last Tollway Tatters meeting she had a chance to look over some of Marilee Rockley's HDT and chose this thread. The red gem really makes the colours pop. and she thinks it might be her new favourite. This is her Blue Fudge pattern in Marilee's HDT with a crackled glass gem.

Fox has found that the floating ring on Row 9 is better tatted with a Catherine wheel join and the ring is better constructed if you add a half ds and post the shuttle, thus preventing the ring from turning in on itself upon closing. This row needs lots of close attention or it ends with lots of retro tatting and cut off bits.

Marie shows us Mom's Christmas Brooch, Diamond, version II which she gave to her Mom for Christmas. More tatted teapots turned into bookmarks. Doodling in thread, just emptying a shuttle resulted in a fish.

Muskaan turned a simple ring pattern into a field of yellow to resemble the fields of mustard blossoms seen in spring. As usual she has included delightfully detailed instructions for this garland on her blog.

Sue tatted Robin Perfetti's design, the Design Tutorial Snowflake in size 40 Lizbeth Snow White which she was planning to use for another ornament, but the centre is a little snug, so she'll leave it as a snowflake.