TIAS, Rocking Horse, Doilies, Earrings, Motifs, Heart and Vest

Batty Tatter has joined the challenge and has just finished off her TIAS with a flag at the top of the mast. She's on a rocking horse kick at the moment, her last one having been bought, she's eagerly awaiting some size 40 Lizbeth thread to make more.

Stephanie is using DMC 80 ecru and Sulky Blendables #12-wt teal variegated for this doily designed by Jan Stawasz. She was sure a full 5-gram ball of DMC would be plenty, but she was wrong, and had to dig through all her small thread stashes to find a last ball of DMC ecru.

Sue has named her ship Humber Ella and it gets along very well with her dragon named McVroom. These earrings are made with Tropical Punch by Lizbeth and a mid pink Coats from her stash, and beads are Gutermann size 9 seed beads. This pair she made last year were done in what she thinks is Rainbow Taffy and a Coats thread she was given.

Phyllis dyed some thread to tat a couple of Prostate Awareness Ribbons for a friend. This particular ribbon color is done in sky blue using a pattern from Lenore English. She forgot where to change colours so her sailboat is camouflaged for sailing the high seas in  thread from Yarnplayer, size 20, Peaches 'n Onions.

Lelia made A Tat Different, designed by Betty Alderson of Snowgoose and featured in The NeedleWorker Magazine, Spring 1999, in Lizbeth Size 20, off white and Marilee Rockley's HDT.

Diane's third graders are doing well with their "Fancy Pants" which is the name of a book by Donna Edwards where she shows that a doublestitch is like a pair of pants with 2 legs and a waist. After chains full of Fancy Pants they are ready to move on to rings and choosing pieces of lace as rewards for their efforts is keeping them enthused. They're finding out that even simple chains can be put to use. Diane played with some pink Flora, making the heart from a Handy Hands pattern. The piece on the right is Hope from Tatting with Visual Patterns by Mary Konior. The bottom piece is a fragment of Hope. Here is Posy from Tatting with Visual Patterns by Mary Konior. The fragments were practice pieces before tatting the motif which she likes to do using up left over thread on the shuttle. Her third graders have attracted the interest of some 5th graders and they're using the minutes after they finish their lessons to work on tatting. You'll never guess what Diane is working on. It's another Spinning Wheel Glass Mat in the pink Flora thread.

Fox noticed that there was something different between her doily and the one pictured, then she realized that she had only 5 picots instead of 6 on the last row. Rather that cut off the whole row, she just cut off the last bit she had done and modified the pattern to fit. She actually likes it better this way so it was a serendipitous mistake. With all those teeny tiny beads, this row will be taking a while.

Wanda chose Lizbeth size 20 # 130 Island Breeze and # 657 Ocean Turquoise Dark for her TIAS project, which turned out to be perfect colours for the subject. This is the progress on the centre back of her vest which she started in April of 2013, finished the collar and then put it aside until recently.

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.