Heart, Angel, Bookmark,Frankenstein and TIAS

Agasunset joins the challenge with "Heart 2 Heart" pendant which a design of her own devising that has a Swarovski crystal added to it.
NancyD tatted the Simple Angel pattern by Birgit Phelps.


Rayanna presents her TIAS humpbacked rooster. Hmmm looks like it got turned around so that the join was made on the wrong side of the body. Anne tatted a Tardis bookmark to go with her Dr Who book and now she is sharing the pattern. I'm a Dr Who fan and I can't believe I didn't recognize the familiar Tardis/police box shape.


Carol and her friend the other Carol enjoy Halloween and for their Secret Santa Exchange they tatted Halloween designs, which I totally missed. So after a very long delay on my part, this is what Carol sent out to her Secret Santa partner. Frankenstein and his bride are modified versions of Jane's Bride and Groom patterns, mounted and framed with accompanying bat, spider and spider web.
Kelly is thrilled that she successfully completed her TIAS rooster. She won some silk thread in a raffle basket last September at the Fringes "Fall into Tatting" weekend in Cambridge Ontario and she used it to make the Tiny Square Teapot from the "Tea is for Tatting" book by Martha Ess.

Martha has completed her TIAS rooster and named her cockerel Norman. Sherry has a new book in the works The Exquisite Collection of Butterflies Volume 2 is in the works. Check her blog for details.

Doilies, Heart, Snowflake, Names and Roosters

Liyarra has finished the doily that began with her Motif 8. It's a design by Lene Bjorn and was found in the Danish magazine Orkis Bladet. Tatted in Marilee's Garden Afternoon.
Wendy has Day 10 of TIAS done and it's looking suspiciously like a cock but as there's another installment to come, she's not too sure. Fox tatted a heart designed by Gina which she found on Georgia's site which called for size 20 thread, but she used Lizbeth size 40. It had too many stitches and she missed a join, which really had a bad effect on the shape of the poor thing. One side of it is lovely and we'll just ignore the other side for now.
Vanessa has tatted day 10 0f TIAS and it's looking very much like a rooster although her colours seem like they might be in the wrong places.
IsDihara was having trouble with a shamrock working in the Majestic thread, but she persevered, remembering to tat looser and she finally has her shamrock. Someone was asking about the edging shown earlier. The pattern is from the InTatters group under the Knots - Tatting Links tab and the file is called Beeton Edge.
Ellen's company has had a few more resignations and she has tatted names for the departing colleagues using Anna Valeire's alphabets.
Heather has finished her mystery tatting from last week, but it's still a mystery as she's only showing us a teaser. Then she started the 3rd day of December snowflake by Lene Bjorn tatted in one of her new HDT's. She has completed the TIAS and it is indeed a fine young cockerel. She thinks the pink one turned out better.
Martha shows us a picture of her early tatting worked in crappy thread. The quality of the thread does affect your tatting. Marty has up to day 10 of TIAS completed and she's not sure if it's a rooster or an alien. Some of us have seen day 11, it's a rooster.

Wally tatted this design which is actually a coin purse. It measures around 4 inches wide made with Omega #20 pastel mint green using a pattern from Book No Five by Adeline Cordet, Tatting Designs with Instructions. (Note: this book and 4 other vintage books have been reprinted by Lacis in one large volume called TATTING Designs From Victorian Lace Craft $16.00 USD and is well worth having in your tatting library.)

Snowflakes, Heart, Bracelet and TIAS

Fiyero is another pottery artist who has joined the challenge and his first piece is "5th Day of December" from Lene Bjørn's "24 Snowflakes in Tatting" done in Omega size 30 thread.
NancyD tatted the Festive Snowflake a pattern by Sandy from the Handy Hands Newsletter in Lizbeth "Confetti" in size 20.
Ann was hoping for something more like Sherry's Mojo, but her TIAS for day 10 is looking like a rooster.
Rayanna's day 10 is also looking like a cockerel.

M tatted SweetHeart by Birgit Phelps in Lizbeth size 20, col 623. Diane has succumbed to temptation again and bout another GMA shuttle and some more HDT. The thread is Marilee's Forest size 30 used in Christina, from Tatted Bookmarks - cross-shaped by Lene Bjorn. Heather has roosters popping up all over with 2 variations of TIAS for Day 10.
Kelly had everything required for a perfect day of tatting so she had caught up on the TIAS and still managed to work on a bracelet for her Saturday outing.

Hearts, Motifs, Doilies and TIAS

Christy joins the challenge with a tatted variation of one of Martha's teapots.
Alba Alicia has completed another doily.
NancyD used some left over thread to tat an edging from the Big Book of Tatting and used it to decorate a candle. Shanan tatted days 8 and 9of TIAS which is looking remarkably like a rooster.

Fox tatted Mary Konior's Patchwork in Marilee's Garden Afternoon and Cébélia #20 in green.
Rayanna has Day 8 and 9 of TIAS done with a little help from her friend Carol.
M tatted The Brain created by Martha Ess. Then she tatted Heart's Desire by Susan K Fuller in Lizbeth size 20, col 142 & col 145 several times because she miscalculated the length of thread required and had to start again, that was after an attempt at making it in red and black where the chains didn't look right. Vanessa tatted this design by Jon Yusoff in Lizbeth 20 although she thinks she prefers the feel of Altin Basak.
Mica started this project some time ago, but recently picked it up to finish it. The inspiration came from one of the Japanese tatting books but it isn't exactly like the patterns there so she thinks she must have developed her own version. Tatted in DMC 80 black with brown seed beads found at Michael's, it measures about 3 inches in diameter.
Linda has day 8 of TIAS done, but feels she should have used a bigger bead.

Vinnie has finally settled on the motif mobile she wants in her car. The glue stiffener makes it shine in the sunlight. Heather is another one who has completed day 9 of TIAS. Marty posted these earrings she made for her mother years ago, tatted from Mary Konior's rose doodle pattern from the book "Tatting with Visual Patterns."