Edging, Bag, Snowflakes, Doilies, Baby Bonnet, Motifs, Letter, Pendants, Pin and Earrings

Jane's next challenge was to learn the Lark's head picot join which is helpful for eliminating the colour blip when using two colours. Marie Smith's beaded shuttle bag and she thinks the effect looks like scales. Then she tried working the design as a piece of flat fabric, which had it's own challenges.

Ginny tatted snowflakes while at the hospital with her dad. The top left is Snow Crystals by Joelle Paulson, top right is Snowflake on a ring 2 by Jane Eborall. The middle left is Five Point Beaded Snowflake by Ruth Perry, middle left is Minuet by Joelle Paulson and the bottom is Regal also by Joelle Paulson.

Nancy joined others in tatting the Norma Benporath Lace Mat pattern which Jon Yusoff kindly brought up to date and now Jon is hosting a poll to select the 5 most popular. One design done do many different ways and all of them lovely.

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Ancolie has added Marilee's Arches doily to her challenge pile. It's done in DMC Pearl cotton variation size 12 colour 4210, Radiant Ruby.

Cindy has refinished a dresser and used it's glass top to display some tatting. Diane has her fixated on beads and a gift of beads and matching thread had her trying out Frivole's December Snowflake pattern.

Diane and the Tollway Tatters gathered for another meeting where her grand daughter enlisted the help of her mom to load her shuttle. Denise worked on a baby bonnet from a Workbasket pattern, Sue Anna worked on Marilee's  Marian snowflake pattern and Marilee worked on clunys separated by Double Core Single Shuttle Split Rings so that she can tat two split rings in a row in two different colors. Diane finished this "Christmas Decoration" from Tatting theory and patterns by Jan Stawasz in size 20 Lizbeth, Snow White. Motif #2 from Minitats: 69 Petite Motifs by Patti Duff was done in the same thread. Then she did Motif #6 in Minitats, because she wanted to use up the size 20 Lizbeth, Wedgewood Dk thread on a shuttle. Doodad Snowflake #2 was tatted in size 20 Lizbeth, Snow White #601 using glass seed beads, but the weight of all those beads made the arms a little heavy so she thinks it will work better mounted in a bangle. Triangular Doodad Snow Crystal done in size 20 Lizbeth, Snow White with more beads. Doodad Snowflake #3 in Snow White should finish off the Christmas vacation. L is for Lily, who loves the color purple and this one is tatted in size 20 Flora, #64.

Fox has decided that since she doesn't like pinning out picots, perhaps prevailing petite picots will help so she has decided to pay closer attention to picots and shrink them to half of their size like in this motif. Snowy sent her a marvellous book, La frivolite aux navettes by Edwige Renaudin and included with it these 3 exquisite motifs. The Honey Napkin progresses and is exempt from her resolution regarding picots. A new ball of Finca perle 8 was put to use tatting a motif from her new book, followed by another, because one is not enough.

Jess tatted the first three rounds of Marilee Rockley's Jubiloso doily which she had planned to finish, but it looks so good as a Motif on a Button, that she decided to stop. She also tatted Jon's Sweetheart medallion and altered the center for this purpose.

Margaret didn't like how her Tat-Along mat was going so she snipped it. Here it is tatted back up with round 3 added. Here's the snowflake she sent to the Snowflake appeal for the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Marie bought this pendant and added a tatted border in Lizbeth, size 20, antique violet med and dusty rose lt. Another piece came in a package of 12 and was also made with Lizbeth, size 20, antique violet med and dusty rose lt.

Wanda created this pin for her MIL tatting a little heart in Lizbeth Christmas Red #671 size 20 with a cloverleaf base surrounded by chains, mounted it on a wooden heart and added a tiny angel charm. Lizbeth Seagreen Dark #688 size 20 and pink seed beads were used on these earrings created for her daughter. The other daughter got the same thing in The other set is in pink thread with black beads. Lizbeth Western Sunset #102 size 20 and silver seed beads were used on this pendant and earring set she created for the new year.

Lady, Teapot, Bookmarks, Doilies, Stars, Snowflakes, Flowers, Pin and Pendant

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Laurie starts off her new year with the Crinoline Lady from Pam Palmer's Tatting Treats 2 booklet in Lizbeth thread in size 20, #640 Antique Violet Medium.

Margaret finishes off her challenge of tatting teapots with the Tiny Square Teapot in Lizbeth no 20 in Falling Leaves and Antique Rose Tea Set in a lemon size 20, although it looks white in the photo. She has plans to start another 25 motifs in 2013. This beautiful bookmark was sent to her from Wendy and  it's from the book Playing with Picots.

Julie finished round 3 of the Norma Benporath Lace Mat which was revived by Jon Yusoff. Here is round 4 in progress, and here is round 4 almost complete.

Linda finds a CQ card with little tatted flower embellishments works up quicker than a post card. The Finger Lakes Tatting Group is creating a "Starry-Night" quilt to auction off and these are some pointed stars tatted in gold thread made for it.

Diane finished tatting Doodad Snowflake #2 in Snow White on Christmas morning, while Doodad Snowflake #1 in Snow White was placed on the tree New Year's Eve. Then she started a Triangular Doodad Snow Crystal in  Lizbeth Snow White #601. The blue snowflake was a gift from La Cosette. She has been contemplating a new resolution to be thorough in providing information on the things she has tatted, like Motif #1 from Minitats: 69 Petite Motifs by Patti Duff done in size 20 Lizbeth, Wedgewood Dk #656 using a Shuttle Brothers shuttle and picot gauges by Georgia Seitz. This motif is from Tatting theory and patterns by Jan Stawasz done in size 40 Lizbeth, Cranberry Bush #181.

Fox has been playing with posies. Posy by Mary Konior in mauve Olympus thread size 40 with tiny green, pink and mauve beads, then in green with red beads which she tatted and gave to her daughter-in-law, so she had to do another for herself. Row 14 of the interminable honey doily appeared to ruffle, but a rough blocking shows that it's still laying flat. She needs to get more thread and in the interim she used up what was left of Jess' HDT on a Karey Solomon design and one round design of her own.

Jess decided to try tatting an amigurumi dolls and with size 20 thread around a size 40 core and the dots of colour across the chest were created by the lock joins. The Penelope doll was created for her by her friend Mandy using yarn and fabric that Jess had dyed for her. Of course Jess had to add some tatting in Penelope's hand. This is another one of Karey's snowflakes done in Chilled Mess. Followed by Julie Patterson's Petals bookmark in Calliope Mess. Jon's Sweetheart Medallion, tatted on the left in size 40 Grackle Mess and on the right size 100 Rainbowlicious.

Marie tatted 20 different snowflakes for 20 innocent children to go to the new Sandy Elementary School in Connecticut.  All of the snowflakes were done in size 20 crochet thread and you can find the source information on Marie's blog. This pin was done in Lizbeth, size 20, Antique Violet Lt with tiny clear beads. This is one of her favourite bauble patters because it fits around so many different size baubles.

Mica has posted a happy new year snowflake, Jon's Quantiesque.

Michelle's sister had a friend commission 6 large crosses so they were done in size 20 thread. The first was done in Scottish Thistle and white, the second in another Lizbeth thread and white, but the finished cross using a pattern she's done before, but doesn't remember where it comes from, seemed a littl small, so she modified it. The larger version is done in a Lizbeth colour her family doesn't like, and white. Then there is the Mary Konior small cross which was huge. The last three are from Lene Bjørn, it's called Maria done in Lizbeth Blue River Glades and white, and blue and white. Then she tatted snowflakes beginning with Frivole's Snow Crystals in Lizbeth, size 20 Blue Ice and she thinks the third one is from Festive Tatting. Anothe of Frivole's Snow Crystal, Betsy Evan's snowflake, then Frivole's Regal- with beads and a final one she thinks might be from Festive Tatting.