Thursday, August 05, 2010

Bracelet, Necklace, Earrings, Motifs, and Doily,

Marta used the same Monika thread in turquoise for these earring and for a cover on this bottle. Check her blog for more pictures.
Agasunset picked up a new mannequin to display her wares and did up a turquoise set of tatted necklace earrings and bracelet to try it out.
Anne tatted this design in DMC Babylo size 20 which is a little softer than most tatting threads. The colour changes are fast enough that there are 2 light spots and 2 dark spots in most rings which makes it hard to tell that the rings and chains are made with different threads.
Fox is marking her two year anniversary of learning to tat with a new picture of the lamp that she uses to display her most recent tatting endeavours. While she is having great success with clunies, roll tatting is now the technique that is driving her nuts. Her granddaughter will love the pastel colours that she's tatting this piece in, and she has plans for lots of beads. The cluny motif is completed, but still she's unsatisfied with it.

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Motifs, Doilies, Edging, Earrings, Bracelet, Leaf and Heart

Nami's sister bought some metal earrings with a red stone and wanted to see if Nami could reproduce the effect in tatting. It appears as if the outer edge of this earring is crocheted like the set she did earlier. What a pretty effect!
Orsi has the felted stole with the tatted flower embellishment completed. Check her blog for the picture of the whole thing.
Agasunset has been working in black and got a chance to do some filming.
Wendy tatted Anne Bruvold's Chinese Dragon in a variegated Lizbeth 20 and it looks marvelous.
Isabel's niece wanted her to make a tatted bracelet. She saw a bookmark pattern somewhere on the internet and used the idea along with some beads to make the bracelet design which her niece promptly showed off to all her friends.
Bev's tatting corner became the victim of renovations going on elsewhere in the house and hampered her access to tatting supplies. Can anyone say "withdrawal"? A path was finally cleared and she has used Marilee's Corsage size 40 HDT on these Peacock hearts and Zarina's Garden Path on the leaf that is an adaptation of one that appeared in a Workbasket magazine. She has cut back the offending rows on the oval Sheep May Safely Graze doily and she's now back to the trellis which will be done in size 30 cream Anchor thread.
Diane loves the edging she used for Joanne's wedding hanky so much she used it for her wedding hanky too. It's the second pattern in A Tatter's Workbook by A. Tatter worked in Lizbeth size 20 color #633, But she thinks that next time she'll do it in a finer thread. Diane is also having a special give away of this Spinning Wheel glass mat from Tatting with Visual Patterns by Mary Konior, and one Stumpy bookmark by Kersti Anear, both tatted in size 20 Witches Brew HDT, all for just posting your well wishes to the newly weds, Joanne and Jan in her comments, so that she can pass them on.
Fox is holding her breath and crossing her fingers that this cluny motif continues to work out as well as it has so far.

Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Doily, Necklaces, Earrings, Motifs, Crosses, Butterflies, Heart and Snowflakes

Ingrid tatted Lene Bjorn's the second day of December from the book: 24 snowflakes in tatting in Durable cotton, but this thread is quite thick and the snowflake was too big for the tree.
StephanieGrace has been going through some major upheaval with her Dad needing some major surgery and the family dog passing away. All that she has had time to tat were butterflies.
BSOTF has tatted something for chuckle. A pair of tatted handcuffs :)
Marta created earrings just for wearing with blue jeans using a Polish thread "Monika" in color 26 001.
Nami is tatting tiny earrings with a flower-crochet tatting and amethyst beads formed like a cluster of grapes.
Orsi is creating a silk and felt bolero or stole and already has the tatting decoration ready for it.

Kat got some new colors of Lizbeth and tried them out tatting Brigit Phelps's sweetheart. The one on the left is Turquoise Twist in size 40 and on the right is Berry Burst in size 20.
Tattips has been creating variations of earring designs. She began with a split ring pattern with rings on the second half of the split and added Miyuki Delicas beads in lemon and blue and finished it off with sterling silver ear hooks. Then she did it again in a solid colour with different bead placement. Another variation of the pattern adds an inner split ring and a size 8 amethyst colored bead. The next variation is a square shape. The next one is done in medium grape and gold, embellished with square Miyuki beads.
IsDihara is tatting Iris Niebach's Gloria Butterflies in size 40 Lizbeth Berry Burst.
Wanda got a bargain on a Workbasket and had tat one of the motifs in it. Then she realized that with a little tweaking it would be a cross.
Fox finally finished the motif and in spite of all of the trouble she noticed that her tatting is improving. Even little gifties need some tatting. She did elisadusud's pattern once before,but this one is considerably tighter and more uniform and the two split chains look just like normal ones.
Heather is giving us a sneak peek at one of the pendants from her new book and a pendant and earring set.
Sherry created a circular blocking template for her Daisy Doily and she is sharing it with us.

Sunday, August 01, 2010

Rooster, Earrings, Necklaces, and Edging

Nami created a necklace to match earrings using graduated motifs linked together with silver coloured chains.
Fox is adding it all together Beads, clunies and multiple colours of thread in this motif from A New Approach to Tatting by Yusai Shokoin. Since she didn't have enough challenges going on she's also working on roll tatting.
Krystle has made it back from the IOLI lace conference which was mostly bobbin lace, but she did see some tatting by Karen Miner which hardly looks like tatting.
Sherry has tatted Christel Weidmann's rooster and named him Rocco. He's tatted in Ambrosia HDT.