Toad, Motifs, Edging, Bookmarks, Necklace and Earrings

Nancy, in honour of the toad that has taken up residence in her garden, has tatted this one which she named Henry.

Fox is carrying on her own front side/ back side debate. The first picture shows front and back using front side tatting. The next picture shows the front of the motifs using front side/ back side tatting. The edging is growing, but has more inches to go.

Marie's Coral Reef bookmark has a 3D look to it.

Orsi has finished the first row of her tatted necklace. and now has to work on the next. It's looking beautiful.

Sue has all 4 pair of dreamcatcher earrings done in large, small rainbow done in size 100 and medium earrings. The large dreamcatcher is done in Lizbeth Lime Green Med. & Juicy Watermelon(both size 40)using the Small Round #11 from the Ultimate Book of Tatted Doilies. The new earrings are in size 40 Lizbeth Peacock Blues and the green size 40 HDT Celery by Yarnplayer.

Motifs, Doilies, Bookmarks, Turtle, Jewelry and Earrings

Barbara just finished her second motif from Jon Yusoff's book Elegant Tatting Gems in Lizbeth size 20, #114 Sea Shells. This one is called Almas.

Cindy finally finished the easy and boring round and...she fell into the trap we all do. It's so easy, she made a mistake, an extra repeat, which will of course take much much longer to cut out and fix, than it did to tat it in the first place.

Marie has yet another bookmark variation completed. This one's named Rainbow.

Mica found the pattern for this turtle on the Handy Hands website and since she already had the green thread it just needed some beads.

Orsi used ribbons to count the finished units of her tatted jewelry, but little flowers worked much better.

Sue has finished another pair of dreamcatcher earrings, this time, in size 40 Lizbeth Raspberry Pink.

Motifs, Doily, Bookmarks and Earrings

Julie found some tatted pieces amongst the thread stash she received from her grandmother and others acquired through ebay. Some are finished and others are still attached to the ball of thread. She was pleased with the results of her fair entries including the Norma Benporath Lace Mat for which she received a blue and champion ribbon.

Marie has another variation of the bookmark done.

Michelle loves the little cross she found on a little cross I saw on Donata Jones' blog which she did in Lizbeth size 20 Victorian Red and White.

Sue worked on a smaller version of the dreamcatcher earring and was able to come up with something that worked. She has one pair of the small dream catcher earrings done in Tatskool's Rainbow Bright HDT size 100 and another pair to go. The larger pair are tatted in size 40 Lizbeth Scottish Thistle.

Necklaces, Motifs, Flowers, Edging, Bookmarks, Hairclips, Heart, Doilies, Dragon, Earrings, Mice, and Snail

Carrie sat about waiting for the contractor to show up and tatted the first half of Marilee Rockley's Ripple Necklace, in the right size thread this time. Then she used used the rest of the shuttle thread to make a little butterfly and flower. The little hair pin she had for the art fair has become one with the sunhat she bought for her daughter. She continued to work on her Edging. In the evening she tatted the other half of the necklace, in size 10 Black and Mexicana, which just needs her sister's jewelry-crafting skills to finish it. Then she had a chance to start the cross for her pastor in size 10 Victory Red. Her daughter was invited to a friend's birthday party for little girls in dresses and pearls, so an earlier tatted piece was wrapped around a ponytail adorned with pearl drop earrings and topped with a little flower pin to cover up the earring backs. Coupled with a costume pearl necklace, it's instant princess.

Jane has learned that it helps keep track if you use completely different shuttles for shuttle and ball when doing Martha's heart and to do the hearts separately so that you can cut off the second one and keep the first intact if it all goes haywire on you. The tatting is challenging, but the results are worth it.

Diane started the Spinning Wheel Glass Mat for Lily in size 20 Lizbeth #122, Caribbean, which is one of Diane's favourite colours.

Fox hadn't planned on using this motif, but with the gathers on the shirt, it's the only one that will hang correctly on this shirt for the little lady turning seven. She duplicated the Middia pattern and liked it just as well without the beads. She has been working steadily on the hanky edging and you can see the progress she has made, not only in lace, but also in appreciating the Valdani thread.

Margaret used Lizbeth Tropical Punch size 20 to make the Tatted Seahorse Dragon by Anne Bruvold and Debbie Arnold, which she has plans to tat again.

Marie has another bookmark done, that reminds her of a swirly wind current.

Orsi is designing a tatted necklace imagining the result and planning all the structural nature of it.

Sue's  friend saw her daughter's rainbow dream catcher earrings and requested a purple pair for herself and 2 smaller pairs for her granddaughters so they could have "look-alikes". This is the larger one, but now she has a problem finding the smaller hoops and is stretchering her imagination to work around the problem.

Wanda went on vacation with her daughters and their families and happened to tat some mice, which the kids decided they wanted. She had one blue mouse finished and only Lizbeth #644 Boysenberry Dark and #662 Turquoise Light with her. One grandson wanted a mouse in red, so when she got home she did a red one to send him. The snail is Nancy Tracy's pattern made in Lizbeth #601 snow white in size 20. These tatted motifs are intended to decorate a denim purse.