Hearts, Doily, Bookmarks and Snowflake

Tattips joins the challenge with "HOPE" by Mary Konior, from her book "Tatting with Visual Patterns" tatted in Lizbeth size 20, Tutti Fruti. A motif pattern from "Tatting Patterns and Design" by Gun Blomqvist, Elwy Persson was adapted to get a small doily. See how cleverly she worked the outer rows first and then finished off with the inner row so that she didn't have to tat individual motifs?. The bookmarks are a pattern from Teri Dusenbury's site called the Dandelion bookmark tatted in Red Rose thread in size 20. NancyD found an edging she liked and tatted it attaching as she went, so when she was done tatting, she was done attaching too. The thread is Lizbeth size 20 which is fine on a hanky with a thicker fabric, but might be a little heavy for a gossamer thin fabric.
Isabel has been experimenting with twisted picots and she has has created a video showing how it's done. Ann tatted Mary Konior's Queen of Hearts from "Tatting with Visual Patterns" in Lizbeth size 20 thread colour 147. She was so in the zone tatting that she missed a couple of joins and had to retro tat, which was when she discovered that a size 24 tapestry needle works really well for getting under the stitches and opening them up.
Liz has tatted Anne's TARDIS bookmark for her daughter who is a fan of Dr Who. She made Jon's Enchanter heart in Lizbeth thread, which gave her an opportunity to tat her first dimpled ring. Fox uses her white lampshade as a showcase for her tatting and she shows us all the lovely pieces she has done recently. Mica tatted the Fourteenth day of December from 24 Snowflakes in Tatting and it's motif no. 24 in my 25 motif challenge. It's made with 1 strand of DMC metallic floss. Linda has made several Valentine's Day cards for people and included some wonderful tatted hearts. Diane finished the second round of Hostess Set Centerpiece from Tatting Patterns by Mary Konior. She's working in Parlak Oren Bayan Dantel Ipligi, sizd 50, color #066 and she was thrilled that her new silver shuttle from Sherry, LadyShuttleMaker, arrived in the mail just in time to tat it. Round 3 of the design was extremely easy and the next round looks like it will be just as simple.
Marty received her Valentine's exchange in the mail and was delighted to see that Karey Solomon not only tatted a heart for her in a delicate dusty rose, but also included the pattern for the Y-Knot Heart.

Bookmarks, Necklaces, Hearts, Crosses and Earrings,

Just to let everyone know I am planning to start an new designing course in March. Full information is on the Design-Tat blog

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Agasunset was inspired by snow to work with white thread and pearls to create both of these utterly charming necklaces. Pam used pieces of a sample pattern found in the book “The Complete Guide to Beading Techniques” by Jane Davis to learn beaded tatting. The thread is DMC No. 12 Perle Cotton, color 712 and size 11 seed beads. Her next trial didn't use a pattern, just freestyle tatting in DMC No. 12 Perle Cotton color 225 and size 11 seed beads. The next one one would make a nice pendant worked in DMC No. 12 Perle Cotton color 225 and size 11 seed beads. The center round of a 2004 Snowflake by Jane Eborall made in DMC No. 10 Cebelia color 797. another piece of the Jane Eborall snow flake. Another section of the snowflake in the same colour is suggestive of lots of things like a lobster or a candlestick.
Linda shows us more hearts. The first heart is a new 2010 pattern called Enchanter from Jon Yusoff tatted in size 20 Lizbeth Angel's Love Thread. The second heart is from the Valentine Exchange from Jeannette Moore from Cato, New York. Ancolie has finished a new motif for the challenge and now she is working on tatting a baby's bonnet.
Alan tatted the Tri Heart pattern by Susan Taliaferro and Marilee's "Keyed Up" pattern for earrings in silver and pearls. The heart was tatted in size 20 thread first and then in silver and they are almost identical in size.
Diane has tatted another cross for Eva, but she came dangerously close to not having enough HDT to finish it. Now she's in the mood for something a little bigger and she has started on another Mary Konior design.

Lingerie Lace, Bookmark and Motifs

Agasunset is pleased to share her instructions on how to make your own lace panties and thrilled with the response they received.
NancyD made the Tatted Rose Cross from 'The Workbasket' March 1989 in Lizbeth size 20 and only noticed when she was on the second arm of the cross that she had one too many petals on the rose and had to start again.
Fox tatted a lovely pattern by Iris and while the pattern is beautiful, the thread combinations are less so. Fox was trying the pink and a variegated together as potential candidates for the outer rows of of the pink and white lace she is working on, but they aren't what she hoped they'd be. Maybe pink and green instead?
Heather has been working on the same design trying to perfect it, but somehow it just isn't cooperating.
Marty received some lovely threads and tatting in the December thread exchange but she hasn't used them because if she does use them they'll be GONE. I know exactly how she feels.

Bookmark, Treble Clef, Panties and some new trials

Agasunset has finished a project she's been working on for a while. Just in time for Valentine's Day...Tatted Panties!
Fox wanted to try out the variegated thread with the pink in this Isis Niebach pattern. She liked the pattern but not the thread combination. She received her shuttle, thread and some yummy HDT in the mail today and has started a new pattern with them, one on Mary Konior's crosses.

Jeff is back on line after a computer upgrade, just in time to show us Anne's Tardis Bookmark tatted in Lizbeth size 20 in colour #656 Dark Wedgewood.

Kathy, like many people in the States, has been snowed in. She used the time to good advantage and made Sherry's treble clef in gold DMC size 5 thread, which comes in a skein, and mounted it in a frame.

Pendants, Hearts, and a completed challenge

Agasunset has tatted a variety of triangle motifs in green just in time for St Patrick's day.

This is M's 25th motif and the largest thing she has tatted so far that lasted long enough to get it's picture taken. The pattern is from The Tatted Artistry of Teiko Fujito worked in Lizbeth size 20, col 129 Purple Splendor.

Linda has been making lots of hearts. Janice Blair's tatted heart is very easy for a beginner and her group of ladies has been making quite a few of them. The white is tatted with 20, red and purple 40 and the earrings are size 80. The second picture shows a compilation of hearts with where they came from.
Heather has been working on taxes which may explain the 4 failed attempts to get this lovely lace licked into shape.

Necklaces, Edgings and Earrings

Tatteristic is trying out some patterns from Mary Konior's book, Tatting with Visual Patterns. Since she wanted to work on edgings, she tatted Curds and Whey using some thread sent in her Handy Hands order which she thinks is Grape Pizzaz. She wanted something almost mindless to work on during the Super Bowl and decided on a simple white edging to add to a burp cloth. Linda belongs to the Vintage Quilting Society and one of their community service projects is postcards for military personnel. This is a sample of the postcards with some additional tatted bits.
Alan has been overcome by cuteness and was compelled to make these super cute teddy bear earrings in silver from Patti Duff's Mini Tats.
Carol tatted Yarnplayer's Keyed Up Earrings in Lizbeth thread over Christmas and is just now showing us the results. She thinks the colour is Sherbet color, but whatever it is she loves it.
Diane's seven-year-old granddaughter, Eva, requested a pink tatted cross. This one is from Mary Konior's Tatting Patterns tatted in Parlen Oren Bayan Dantel Ipligi, size 50, color #066.
Martha has been playing with more buttons and things and she likes the results of some better than others, although the last one here is her favourite so far.

Nita created this design for simple necklace and earrings. It was tatted in Opera size 10 using 5 first half ds in between the pearl and crystal beads.

Pink, White and Green

Fox has been making progress on her pink and white confection. She finished the TAT exercise she was working on but the results weren't satisfactory so she's picked up a new ball of thread in a different colour and plans to start again.
Diane tatted the light green motif from The Tatted Artistry of Teiko Fujito in size 20 Flora #228. The dark green motif is from A New Approach to Tatting by Yusai Shokoin worked in Parlak Oren Bayan Dantel size 50, #063.