Motifs, Bookmarks, Butterflies, Doilies, Dragon, Heart, Earrings, Necklaces, Edging and Flowers

Krysta tatted this small motif from an old Anna Burda Needlework magazine which is one of the easiest. She wanted to know if some small tatting thread could be used in combination with some larger thread and she found Flutterflake that uses size 80 and size 20 thread together and it was perfect to experiment with. She test tatted Frivole's Flowering Quatrain bookmark in Lizbeth Size 20 color 671 Christmas Red. The butterfly by Jennifer Williams uses using daisy picots and she tatted it in Lizbeth size 20 in pink and white. This Celtic Five Point Motif she did in Lizbeth size 20 in colours 656 and 684 involves making two separate motifs and interlacing them.

Wooroosa worked very hard last week connecting the motifs and tatting the rows of chains on the Corona doily.

Marie has tatted another of Anne Bruvold's dragons in size 10 turquoise and green crochet thread.

Laurette tatted these?bookmarks from Mary Konior's Tatting with Visual Patterns made from the Anniversary edging. The left one is made with unknown variegated yellow and DMC brown in size 20 and the other one is Lizabeth #166 Pink Cocoa.

Lelia tatted this heart in size 40 LizBeth colour 145 and some smaller heart doodles in size 20 LizBeth colour 628. The motif from Mini Tats by Patti Duff was done in Lizbeth size 20 colour 628 and she plans to use it with a fabric flower. She has lots of flower doodles that she made emptying shuttles and lots of other types of doodles also a result of emptying shuttles that she will be dropping in the mail. Two more motifs from Patti Duff's Mini Tats done in Lizbeth size 20 colour 684

Anika needle tatted these 2 motifs in size 80 using her smallest needle but they seem more like size 50 to her.

Prabhjyotsaini posts pictures of earrings which she made for Valentine's Day fundraiser for her daughter's school. The first pair were created from a picture she saw in a magazine. Other designs came from Nancy Tracy at be-stitched.com, Jane Eborall's Winsome Drop Earrings pattern and the cute little bookmark she made from Yarnplayer's Dream Earrings pattern.

Kristen couldn't resist buying more thread and used it to make another necklace. These motifs will be part of a larger project.

Marta created a mixed media textile triptych for her diploma, complete with tatted accents for one beautiful work of art.

Nancy made these earring for her daughter in size 20 thread using a pattern from free-tatting.com. Then she did some more both with and without beads.

Bonnie emptied her shuttles and in the process covered Matilda, the teddy bear with tatted butterflies.

Ancolie tatted this square motif design by Lene Bjorn from Book Tatting Fantasia 2 by Iris Niebach which she found difficult to tat.

Cindy tatted Eye Spy bookmark by Julie Patterson in Yarnplayer's Lava HDT size 40.

Diane thought size 80 Lizbeth, Rainbow Taffy would be perfect for this hanky edging, but now she's not sure if the blue is a good enough match. Her 10 year granddaughter wanted to learn to tat and it looks like she's getting the hang of it.

Fox tatted this Anniversary Motif by Mary Konior motif using a sample of Krystle's size #80 HDT. She's doing an edging in Sherry's Picadilly HDT size 50, but not the Iris Niebach pattern she had planned which had enormous picots and used up the HDT too fast. The row of crocheted chain makes a good foundation for adding tatting to a hanky, but she's finished with hanky edgings for a while. She misread the pansy pattern from the Priscilla book done in size 40 Lizbeth so it didn't come out quite the way it should have.

Frivole has the link to her Flowering Quatrain bookmark pattern posted. She's been making progress on her Butterfly Doily but she doesn't like how the row after the butterfly looks as it seems to detract from the butterflies, but she's not sure she wants to change it because it may mean changing all of the subsequent rows.

IsDihara loves the way Lizbeth's Autumn Apple Pie looks on the ball, but she wasn't happy with how it looked tatted. However in Martha Ess' broomstick tatted bookmark and in Mary Konior's one shullte edgings like Curds and Whey, it does look very pretty. Here is Jane Eborall's Celtic Snowflake done in Lizbeth size 40 #163 Blue Ice & #149 Peacock Blues. Initially she added beads to the joining picots which changed the size and shape of the motif, so she had to re-tat the design in white to make it fit.

Jess received some interesting things from across the pond with some tatted surprises inside. Jon's Chinese Coin Bookmark was tatted with a slight boo boo.

Kelly has been busy making these jewelry sets to sell this week. The pattern is Krystledawne`s Spanish Dancer that she helped test tat done in Karey`s beautiful HDT in size 20.

Orsi wants to create an edging and this is her first draft that she will tweak until it's perfect.

Wanda's Pay It Forward gifts were some Altoids tins decorated a la CQ with tatted bits and charms. The PIF gift she received from Umintsuru is a pair of gorgeous tatted earrings.

Seahorse, Motifs, Earrings, Necklaces, Bookmarks, Edging, Doilies, Heart and Bracelets

Krysta has decided to join the challenge and her recent tatting includes a seahorse by Jane Eborall and kokopelli from the be-stitched web site done in size 20 Lizbeth thread colour 694.

Wooroosa is a Korean who has been tatting for 2 years and she needed some motivation to keep tatting so she decided to join the challenge. She's currently working on the Corona doily from Judith Connor's, Contemporary Tatting New Designs from an Old Art. At one point she missed a join that connects the triangular motifs and she tied the picots together. Been there, done that. She's planning on using ecru thread to join the rounds together

 

Marie tatted these earrings from Nina Libin's, "One Shuttle, Lots of Beads" that matched the bracelet, from an earlier post in DMC's Metallic Embroidery thread. She thought Nina's necklace from It's All Rings was a little plain so she added Nina's Green Iris Pendent that can be found on Georgia's site done in Lizbeth, size 20, Autumn Spice. She added a few more ds to accommodate the 4 mm pearls she used on this one made with DMC embroidery thread. Maria is one of her favorite crosses from Lene Bjorn's Tatted Bookmarks which she did in size 10 crochet thread. The while thread has an iridescent filament and the gold thread has a gold filament which didn't show up in the photograph.

Anita wanted to add tatting in all of the colours she used on her quilt block. So she wound 2 strands of all four colours of the embroidery floss onto her bobbins and stuck the shuttles together to keep them in place. Then she used another shuttle wound in green to encapsulate the other colours, creating an edging with cloverleaves in each colour.
 

Kristen is going through withdrawal as she crates up all her tatting supplies to be shipped out. She learned how to tat both spiral chains and split rings on the needle and used the techniques to finish off her necklace. She's using some variations on Lyn Morton's Tatting Patterns flowers in creating a gift that she'll share when it's complete.

SunshineCraft is working on the next row of the Clover doily by Eileen Stafford, which is the row that nearly drove her crazy the first time she tatted this design.

Linda created an Afternoon Tea fabric postcard with a wee tiny tatted flower as a post card for a friend

Ancolie tatted this design by Iris Niebach from Tatting Fantasia 2.

Cindy tatted Petals from the Just Marking Tome, book of bookmarks in some Tat-ilicious thread, which she just may keep.

Fox used Valdani #12 in a colour she loves to tat Karey Solomon's Happy Heart. She can't make up her mind which of these 3 designs to sew on the shirt for the little one's birthday. Any ideas? Antique Splendor by Karey Solomon was tatted in size #40 HDT by Tat-ilicious. She test tatted Frivole's bookmark design in size 40 Lizbeth. Then to finish off her size 12 Valdani she tatted Susan Fuller's Heart's Desire. She found a small heart by Frivole to go on the back of the shirt. That finishes off all of the size 12 Valdani and she doesn't think she'll buy any more as she finds it too soft and furry.

Frivole tatted the heart from the Rainbow Heart Bookmark pattern by Betsy Evans to show off the colours of Jess' Serendipity HDT. She attached her edging to the oval with green thread for a really awesome doily
 

 

Sherry has a pretty little doodle to show. She's tatting up another one of these doilies and writing up the pattern in a PDF. Here's day 2 and she's decided to go with fall colours this time. The progress is slow but it's coming. 

 

Sue is working through her monumental task of tatting lot's of bracelets in a rainbow of colours and she's finished 16 so far. Her granddaughter, saw them and requested one with a whole rainbow for herself.