Snowflakes, Motifs, Centrepiece and Bookmarks

Carolyn is trying to use up some threads before she succumbs and buys the new threads she wants. This one snowflake is form Festive Snowflakes & Ornaments edited by Barbara Foster in Flora color 2053 size 20 and it measures 4 1/4" across.
Liz recently finished several motifs. The snowflake is based on heart doily by Kelly Luljak tatted in blood red Perle 8. Acacia by Judith Conners was mad in Coats 20 in a blue with some dark blue/purple beads as accent and Sally Magill's MHC Snowflake is done in Lizbeth 20. Of course everyone will recognize the completed Rooster from Jane's TIAS challenge.
Fox is having difficulties with the TAT exercise again and is taking breaks from it to work on this pink and white confection. Wouldn't it look adorable on a little girl? Vanessa tatted Tammy Rogers maple leaf again, only this time she took the plunge and tatted it in size 80 thread.
Bonnie is joining the One World One Heart giveaway For which she has tatted "Poppy" a tatted gecko designed by Jane Eborall and tatted in Sherry's Spring Poppies size 20 HDT.
Anne is displaying 2 centerpieces. The old one had 14 rows and she is using slightly thicker thread and has reached row 11. The new one will be slightly larger.

Diane finished Spinning Wheel glass mat from Tatting with Visual Patterns by Mary Konior in size 20 Vanilla Sky from Tatskool. The two bookmarks are Stumpy from Kersti Anear. The other little pieces are her favorite way to use up thread on a shuttle, making Leaf Braid from the Konior book.
Laura has finished her Lizbeth mat which turned out to be a robust 20 inches wide. For her previous challenge she did 25 snowflakes, so this time around she's doing bookmarks. She's already completed an adaptation of a pattern from Tatting in Lace by Mary Konior using Coats 40 crotchet thread in ecru. She used Lizbeth 20 in Country Turquoise Lt for 2 designs modified from The Complete Book of tatting by Rebecca Jones and the last one is an adaptation from Tatting in Lace by Mary Konior. She used DMC 20 Cordonnet Special for the joined motifs from the book Tatting by Myra Piper.Finally, she used Lizbeth 20 thread in Mocha for another Myra Piper design. Nita tatted this earring design by Marilee Rockley. She tweaked it a bit and says it's lots of fun and fast to do for gifts.

Hearts, Edgings and TIAS

The question was asked and I repeated it on the tatting lists, what to do with finished motifs. Here are some of the answers:
Scatter them around decoratively on shelves and tables as "mini-doilies".
Put them on cards.
Add a thread hanger to make ornaments or sun catchers.
Join several motifs in a straight row for a bookmark.
Put them on fridge magnets (stitch to a scrap of fabric, glue the fabric on cardboard, glue a magnet to the back of the cardboard).
Attach them to bags.
Give them away.
Use them in mixed media projects.
Combine them into larger tatting projects like dresser scarves or table mats.
Use them as insertions for sheer curtains or hand towels or pillowcases or other linens.
Create a sampler board to display them.
Use smaller pieces in scrapbooking.
Attach small motifs to card stock to make bookmarks.
Sew them to the collars of shirts
Use in crazy quilts or swap with someone who does.
Decorate a stuffed animal with them.
Create scenes and mount in frames or applique to clothing.
Place larger motifs inside acrylic coasters and smaller ones inside acrylic key chains.
Decorate a barrette.
Add some glitz like, feathers, netting, beads or other notions and attach a broach pin to the back.
Make a tissue cover for purse size tissues, or go for a larger tissue box cover.
Iris Niebach suggested that they are ideal for decorating little boxes covered with fabric. Inga Madsen of Denmark taught her how to make such a box and together they will be creating a book so that we can all create decorated boxes.
Just some suggestions for what you can do with the motifs you create.

Isabel has been working with the Spanish group translating the PRISCILLA book. Different people are working on different selections in the book and this is one of the patterns Isabel has been working on. Some of the lovely intricate designs are created with long sections of bare thread which are then worked over in a variety of decorative stitches. In this design the edging is done in mirror strips and the bare threads are covered with needle weaving which creates a solid bar through the middle of the pattern. Bev's flamboyant rooster, the result of Jane's TIAS is perched on top of a cliff crowing for all he's worth. Bev has also pointed out that there are a lot of rooster mug shots that haven't yet made it to Jane's blog for show and tell.
Heather has been doing test samples with her new HDT colours. Rainbow Candy Cane and Wine and Roses.
Marty finished her TIAS but she's wondering if she might be in trouble for showing a naked rooster. Not knowing what she was making, she chose pink for the body and now she's blushing.

Snowflakes, Edgngs, Bonnets and Shamrocks

Fiyero has completed 3 more motifs; "Second Day of December" from Lene Bjørn's "24 snowflakes in tatting" tatted in Omega size 30, Jon Yusoff's "'Quantiesque' Snowflake"tatted using Lady Shuttlemaker's HDT "Helm's Deep" in size 20 and a breast cancer awareness ribbon in pink size 20 Cebelia which will soon be available in his Etsy shop with half of the proceeds to be donated to research.
NancyD has tatted a charming hanky edging which took 5 full shuttles and one whole week to tat. The pattern is from the Helping Hands Newsletter Winter 2009 tatted in Lizbeth size 20 thread and color # 111, Candy Candy.
Fox started her TAT exercise and has this little pile of threads to show for all her hard work. She took a break to tat something fun but the perfectionist in her made that impossible, so she started again. In the interest of something simple and fun she took a run at Sherry's treble clef.

IsDihara hasn't been able to get in touch with the Danish Tatting Guild to see about getting the pattern for the motif Liyarra posted. So while she was waiting to hear from them she enlarged the picture and tried to tat it from there. She didn't quite manage to get it right but tatting in Tatskool's ChocoRaspberry size 40 made her hungry for chocolate. She has finished the Beeton Edge in Bracken Crunch and she is stitching it onto a quilted ball ornament. And just for luck she has a couple more itty-bitty shamrocks from "The Tatted Artistry of Teiko Fujito.
Linda shares with us a CQ block embellished with tatting for the Palmetto's Scholarship program.
Ellen is participating in the One World One Heart event and for the giveaway she will be tatting the name of the winner and mounting it on a ribbon and inserting it inside a sleeve. Check her blog for full details. Heather had a busy day yesterday but she still managed to get some tatting done.
Nita is doing the challenge again for the third time. She's been away from tatting for a while due to some surgery, but she's back at it again and her first challenge entry is a doily by Eileen Stafford. She had already done the doily in dark purple and pink. This time she did it in Lizbeth size 20 purple and lavender.

Eye, Heart, Scarecrow and Rooster

Ann has finished her TIAS and noticed that although it was challenging as a whole, the little bite sized pieces enabled her to tackle it a little at a time and complete a pattern that she would have otherwise shied away from. Wanda tatted one of the hearts from Teri Dusebury's book Tatting Hearts. She repeated a small section of the heart design and attached it to a shirt. Just one of the many uses of a motif.
Carol was delighted to see that the TIAS turned out to be a rooster. After he was completed she did another in different colours to go with a fall display for her dining room table. He fits right in with the scarecrow and pumpkin she tatted, but she's not sure if she'll leave him on the table runner or frame him in the picture she did to showcase him. Marty's niece has to wear an eye patch, but that's OK when Aunt Marty can tat such a scary eyeball for it. When you're 8 being able to scare the boys is FUN. Made with Lizbeth size 40 using a centre rose and some modified block tatting and long picots for eyelashes, it's just a perfect size and perfect effect on the yellow eye patch.