Winter Wonderland or Hark the Herald Angels Sing

Mark has posted some lacy pictures, but they're the kind created by ice laden trees.

Dawn has done another 3D picture ornament. This one is in a variegated blue with an altered stitch count. It's amazing the different look you get from subtle little changes.

Sue is fond of saying, "I don't do big." but in the arena of "small" she has done oodles and oodles of tatting. There's a whole choir of angels in all kinds of shapes and colours and a bevy of beaded wreaths, along with some slightly larger earrings, complete with jingle bells.

O Christmas Tree, with Snowflakes and Shamrocks?

Ruth has posted a shamrock. It's a little early for wearing the green, although with the warm weather we've been having it doesn't seem much like it's winter.

Carol shows us her Christmas tree full of hand crafted ornaments including tatted ones of course.

Marilee has tatted Samantha's butterfly snowflake. Isn't is cute?

Christmas lights and crimson snow

Diana has very busy and hasn't had much time to blog. She created a very Christmas-y necklace using little Christmas light beads on a split ring band tatted in red thread. It looks like there's some jingle bells on this necklace too.

Laura has created a snowflake inspired by one shown yesterday. It just goes to show you that two people can tat something that looks the same visually, but the process they go through to make it, may be very different.

Hearts, Flowers and Snowflakes, Oh My!

Wally shares an adorable motif in Maltese tatting. She has also posted a Fluff Picot motif where the picots are cut and the thread frayed. Both of these patterns are available from her web site.






Suzy Snowflake is the name of the motif Ruth posted. Eight long arms with a flower at each tip.









Barbara has posted a motif from Tatting With Ann Orr which she has done in size 40 ecru.






In lieu of tatting Laura has posted some awesome sunrise pictures taken from the restaurant. Sunrise? At the restaurant? What time did you get up for this?


LaRae shares a picture of some corporate tatting that will be used for demos.The Shuttlebugs passed this project around and it grew into Grandma's Flower Garden. The pattern is from Mary Maynard's book, "Tatting a 4-Square Ring".








Dawn has made another 3D picture ornament. This one is only 2 rounds.

It's snowing tatted snowflakes

Arlene has been tatting more snowflakes and prolonging the tatting so she can enjoy it for longer.

Clyde has been tatting more of Rebecca's crosses, in between walking the new puppy and making rum balls for his kids.

Mark is still trying to recover data from his hard drive crash. What a devastating thing to happen. We don't realize how much we have come to rely on these old circuit boards and memory chips; until they don't work.

Jon has posted the picture for a beaded snowflake and shares the pattern for it with us.

Riet has posted 2 lovely snowflakes done in metallic thread and like all of us she's been tatting, tatting and tatting.

Sharon has posted a snowflake that's in her newsletter.

Snowy is showing us all of the lovely motives she made mounted on cards to be used as Christmas greetings. Christmas cards aren't as popular in France so Snowy has used colourful recycled paper to mount her tatting. It does look different with the different backgrounds.

EeKoon has done a review of her crafts for 2006.

Laura shares a picture of her tree covered with tatting. It's so beautiful I want one of my own.

LaRae shares a picture of her peppermint doily. It looks good enough to eat.

Dawn has re-done the candle in 3 colours so that she could have a yellow flame. She has also added a 3D snowflake with her daughter's picture in it.

Glowing snow and purple haze

Arlene has been tatting snowflakes from internet patterns, iuncluding the one recently shared with the tatting lists by Ben Fikkert. She has used glow in the dark thread for some of them, I wonder how it will look? If all the lights are off, would it look like a snowy night?

Mark has been having major computer problems at work and may have lost a lot of files including some personal files. Lets hope the hard drive isn't fried.

Christmas is purple at Carol's house. There aren't any new motives to look at, but you'll love all the tatting that's on her purple tree and purple wreath.

Earrings, Candycane, Doily, Moose

Ruth shows us a Celtic Ball with Hanging Cluny Poinsettia.

Maria has been busy teaching 3 year olds and getting them ready for Christmas so she hasn't had a lot of time to tat, but she has managed to do a beaded edging and some beaded earrings.

Marilee is also working on earrrings. Who wouldn't love these delicate treats with the name Quickie Snowflake Earrings?

Laura has tatted more candy canes blending colours together for a different effect. She's also managed to complete her challenge, but like several others have done, she's thinks she's going to start over again.

LaRae tried the Tatted Star Doily from the Winter 1998 edition of Old Time Crochet in green, which didn't fit in with the colour scheme for the Dodge house Christmas tree, but it is pretty.

Dawn has added some wired wildlife to her blog. She tatted Dianna Stevens moose in wire and then did Ruth's celtic butterfly with the outline in wire. After all that wire work she switched to Clea cotton to tat the candle from Nancy's Be-stitched page.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

You will have noticed that the postings have become less frequent. That's because with nearly 50 tatters joined in the challenge it gets harder to keep up with everything, especially when the various servers are really slow. Some of the people who wished to participate have yet to post their first piece and others due to work, family, and health problems have not posted anything for months. To save time, I'm going to stop checking those blogs until the folks are back to tatting and posting.

Ruth shows us her favourite one round snowflake which works equally well as a doll house doily. A hanging cluny gives light to the celtic letter "I" to create this awesome menorah. We know this one is a bit of a cheat having been created graphically from the first candle, but it can be done in thread, it will just take longer. By the way, for those of you that don't know Rozella Linden is Ruth's pen name.

Mark posts a picture of the surprise package Wally sent him of lovely threads he can't get in the States.

Donna wanted to tat a really big snowflake with beads and then stiffen it to hang in her window. She used Patons Grace thread and the snowflake came out 5 inches across which is a nice size, but the thread is too soft to hold it's shape especially with beads added. Maybe it would be easier to needle tat. I wonder if a solution of white glue and water would stiffen it enough to hold it's shape?

Marilee re-did the Chill snowflake in variegated thread and notes that it's wobbly until it's blocked.

Laura has tatted one of Ruth's simple celtic cross patterns from the net in a variegated thread. Laura has also tatted Julie Patterson's candy cane pattern, another celtic-like design.

LaRae shares a picture of Mrs Yolanda Snowman. No tatting, but really cute. By the way, I missed posting about some of the pictures of past Christmas trees decorated in lace. Check them out, they're all stunningly beautiful. I especially like the angel done in mignonette tatting.

Finally Sue Hanson joins the challenge. Sue reminds us often that she doesn't do big, so we can look for lots of little motives showing up on her blog. She begins the challenge with some beaded Christmas tree earrings complete with what looks like a jingle bell pot for the tree to stand in.

Delightful Designs

Ruth posts a picture of her hand made Christmas decorations and some useful hints on making your own. She has also added a celtic twist to the purple snowflake she shared previously.

Clyde shows us why he hasn't got much tatting done recently. Ali has been "helping" Clyde do his tatting.

Jon has created a motif by joining together several daisies. Now she's wondering if she should go with it or add more to it. Sometimes a design just feels complete and when you add to it, it just messes it up. On the other hand, sometimes thinking outside the box, and going in a totally different direction helps.

A new variegated lilac motif from Barbara. This one is done with an Anchor thread in size 20.

Marilee has added a snowflake with a twisted picot to her blog. For those of you linking to the various blogs, please note that Marilee has changed her blog address.

Laura has tatted the celtic motif that Janet shared with us earlier.

Dawn has completed a butterfly from Martha Ess' site.

Snowflakes, Wreath, Angels and Heart Seahorse

The motif Wally has posted, called Winter Wonderland uses onion rings. This design is in her book Dreamy Winter.

Ruth has posted a holly wreath that is a variation of the celtic letter "O" with the addition of a garland of hanging cluny holly leaves and red berry josephine knots. How very orginal!

Arlene has tatted a grouping of angels in glow in the dark thread. Just imagine how pretty they will be glowing on the Christmas tree.

Laura has posted a motif from DMC's book of Charted Designs. She has plans to work this pattern in a friendship doily.

LaRae has added tatting to a purchased ornament for a really special effect.

Martha has added some new motives to her blog, Wally's Thankful heart and Deb Arnold's seahorse.

Dawn has tatted a celtic cross but was unable to upload the picture.

Snowflake, Angel, Butterfly

Ruth posts a purple snowflake.

Lynda finished her angel design based on one of Monca Hahn's patterns. An emergency trip to the hospital for her husband provided the time to complete her variation. Emergency surgery isn't fun and our prayers are with your husband.

Marilee has moved her blog and her new address is:
http://www.geocities.com/yarnplayer/blog.html

Dawn has completed a butterfly, one of Ruth's celtic motives.