Butterflies, Bonnet, Booties, Basket and Beaded Ornament

Agasunset shared a pattern with us, but forgot to upload the pattern. That mistake has been fixed, she's working on re-making some of her black pieces in white for a Wedding Gown Photo shoot for one of the exclusive boutiques so she's really excited about that.
Liyarra has tried out some new HDT from Bre-Aly Threads and gives it a thumbs up. The base thread is size 30 Omega, on the left is Sage Rose and on the right is Dream.

After that little mistake NancyD has the baby booties, both the same size now, and the matching bonnet done. She shares the edging pattern for the bonnet and the instructions for turning a hanky into a bonnet.
Aileen is still tatting Sherry's butterflies. Lily done in size 20 Lizbeth Red Burst and Hope done in size 20 Milford in light and dark purple. Another Lily was done in her own hand-dyed thread using the 2 new David Reed Smith shuttles her husband bought her for Christmas. Aileen is having another giveaway. Check her blog for details. Marty used the snowflake she designed for the Design-Tat class and some HDT called "Flame" that her sister dyed to make this very bright ornament.
Wally tatted the basket from the DMC Book of Charted Tatting Designs, without the handle. After it was blocked and dried she applied 2 coats of the high gloss spray.

Snowflake, Edgings and Baby Bonnet

Carolyn tatted Snowflake 4 Festive Snowflakes and Ornaments edited by Barbara Foster unknown size 30 thread. It isn't her favourite snowflake because it lacks structure and it's flimsy.
Ann tatted edging #83 from The Tatted Artistry of Teiko Fujito and added it to this charming doll's pillow with a few embroidered embellishments. What little girl wouldn't love to tuck her doll into bed with this?
Fox, after much perseverance has managed to pull this recalcitrant bonnet into shape. And what a gorgeous bonnet it is The little touches of colour really make it sing.

Did you know that vintage patterns often make baby bonnets much too small for a modern baby? Even using the exact thread called for in the pattern, the resulting bonnet will fit a large orange. It's true that babies are getting bigger. Grapefruit, honey dew or other small melons make ideal blocking sizes and shapes for baby bonnets. Just some useful bits of information.

M tatted Queen's Garter from A Pattern Book Of Tatting by Mary Konior in Lizbeth size 40, col 690, mocha brown light.

Fairy Tale Frog, Motifs, Hearts and Butterflies

Linda tatted the Carnival Tatted Earrings from Marlee Rockley, using teardrop beads from Fire Mountain. The Beaded Oval Tatted Earrings from Julie Patterson were tatted with size 40 Lizbeth thread and it had too many rings for the size of thread to pull through the SCMR so she altered it a little.
Carol wanted to show us a "tea" related ornament for Tatting Tea Tuesday, but I can't get past the spectacular tatted balls that are in the picture. The "Prince" in the next picture is a frog, or is it the other way round. Carol created a storyboard picture frame with a fairy tatted in Flora size 20 thread made from Jane Eborall's Flat Fairy pattern waving her magical wand to turn the frog into a prince. The frog is a Pam Palmer design from Tatting Treats Two tatted in size 80 variegated thread. The mushroom is Heather's design and the crown is by Ellen. Utterly imaginative.
Diane tatted the centre motif from Primrose Path, a design from A Pattern Book of Tatting by Mary Konior, in Lizbeth size 20, color #117. There was a slight mistake which would have bothered her, but she found a second mistake and decided to cut the offending part out and re-do it.
Heather is hoping to have a new book out called Afternoon Tatting. The March heart is still being worked on but here is the centre of it.
M used her new stash of size 40 Lizbeth thread to tat Susan K. Fuller's Heart's Desire pattern, but a little glitch at the end turned it into a broken heart instead. The edging is one of those traditional patterns that just looks delightful working in a variegated and green thread. The green gives the impression of stems and the variegated thread makes for an ever changing bouquet. Sherry's free form tatting experiment is progressing, with no idea where the experiment may lead. She taught the "Hope" butterfly in the online class. This sample was done in size 20 black and Confetti Sprinkles.
Wally has been mulling over this design for a while. The earrings are small, 1 cm, plastic rings covered in tatting. The big beads are made of wood and the small ones are a mix of seed beads. The pendant is the same but the size of the plastic ring 3 cm.

Necklaces, Earrings, Edgings, Butterflies and Daffodils

Agagsunset finally had just the right stone for this Crystal wrap design.
SunshineCraft is admitting defeat. This jumbled mess is Teri Dusenbery's Fantasia Fan, or at least part of it, worked in burgundy silk. After repeated tries, she just couldn't get it to work right and has done the only sensible thing, she's abandoned it for something simpler that at least works.
Vanessa tatted the daffodils from Toni Storer's book "Tatting down the garden path" as her entry for the Canberra Show using size 30 Altin Basak.
Alan used "Mini-Tats" by Patti Duff for these Cross earrings in silver. They were so adorable he had a hard time getting them back from his wife to photograph them.
Fox shows us the samples of the edging that she tatted from the Priscilla book and submitted to Piecework magazine. The publication has been offering a few more tatted pieces in response to tatter's requests. The more people who buy and then write to them in response to their publishing these patterns, the more of them we'll see. The bonnet has been sent to the corner for a time out so that Fox could tat something fun like the pattern by Myra Piper she's using Krystle's green HDT and variegated HDT from Karey. The Celtic Tatted Snowflake is another pattern that she's having trouble with, but she can't seem to quit tatting it. Jeff is another proud owner of the Pop A Bobbin shuttle which he has displayed on Mary Konior's Filet Panel from Tatting With Visual Patterns. It's worked in Lizbeth size 20 thread in colour #656 Dark Wedgewood and he was playing around with the inner ring size to see if he could make them fit better. Sherry's Hope Butterfly was tatted in Lizbeth size 20 colour #656 Dark Wedgewood and #663 Dark Bright Turquoise. Martha found Nazli Gelin Garden thread and used it with vintage black and brown buttons to make a necklace and matching earrings. Now that she's given it a try she'll have to go back for some other colours.
Wally tatted this crown from "DMC Book of Charted Tatting Designs"in size 10 thread although that pattern calls for size 20, because she wanted a larger crown.

Butterflies

Aileen feels like she has been stuck in a rut and there's nothing better to get you out of a rut than some lovely new designs to tat and a lovely new shuttle to do it with. Here are Aileen's choices for getting her stimulated again. Little Maybell is hiding on the book cover tatted with some of Aileen's own HDT.

Bookmarks, Doily, Tatted Eggs

Anne first shows us the folded lace, then when it's opened up we can see that she has only 3 more motifs left to do on round 11. As soon as they are completed she can start working on the outer rows and the centre piece is done, but she'll have to find somewhere else to film it as it's already getting too big to photograph on the sofa.
Ellen has tatted the names for her giveaway winners, her boss and herself and an assortment of Easter eggs embellished with tatting for some ATC's.
Fox's work on the bonnet are toast. She had to cut off what she did because it didn't work. She can't see anywhere she flubbed the pattern but it just didn't work. So now she's winging it, doing it her way.
Sherry is showing us her tatting along with her very first hallmarked silver shuttle that is .999 percent pure silver. Isn't it wonderful!!!!