Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Doilies, Hearts, Earrings and Shamrocks

Sue is working on the TAT THREE mat by Rosemarie Peel and she's already at the 2nd round.

NancyD tatted a drawstring bag from Tatting: contemporary art of knotting with a shuttle by Rhoda L. Auld using DMC size 10 thread.
Steph is giving us a sneak peek of her special project. She's not saying what it is but hopes to have something interesting to show for Tatting Tea Tuesday.
Vinnie asked for volunteers to test out her Spring Doily and Spring heart and several people have complied. Gina tatted the heart in Tatskool's Choco-raspberry size 40 thread. Liyarra
tatted the doily in Lizbeth's Vineyard Harvest size 40 and Vinnie did the Spring Doily over again in Pink&Purple Anchor size-20 with frontside -backside tatting and some detailed instructions for those who were having trouble with it.
Alan is offering special giveaway. It's a pair of earrings tatted in silver wire with a copper core with a swarovski crystal teardrop. The giveaway runs until April 4th.
Fox was one of those who attempted Vinnie's doily, but she seems to have gotten hung up somewhere. She did manage to tat a motif from Patti Duff's Mini Tats in Lizbeth #40 and the Square is Georgia Seitz's from Tatting on the Edge and Beyond.

Jeff tatted the shamrock that Betsy Evans shared on Here-Be-Tatters in Flora size 20 in colour #230.
Martha has decided to tease us with tantalizing tid bits of tatting. It's celtic, it's buttons, it's an alligator?


Sunday, March 21, 2010

Doilies, Bracelets, Bookmark and Motif

Carolyn tatted snowflake 5 from Festive Snowflakes and Ornaments
edited by Barbara Foster in an unknown blue size 30 thread.
Liyarra tatted Vinnie's Spring Doily in Lizbeth 40 Vineyard Harvest.
Cindy is using her prize of Yarnplayer's Summer Trail HDT for the Starlight Doily from the book The Tatters Treasure Chest. Anne is back on Row 11 because she has discovered a mistake in 4 of the motifs. That's a heartbreaking discovery. Kelly is still working with beads. She tatted a dark green bracelet for herself using Lizbeth size 20 that has about 250 beads in it, and then she started on a bridal bracelet in white.
Wally was inspired by a design from Priscilla No. 3 to make this bookmark.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Bookmarks, Heart, Butterfly and Motif

Sue tatted this flower, listed as a tatted flower pin, from Easy Tatting by Rozella F. Linden.
Isabel hasn't had time for blogging, she's been too busy tatting these fantastic gloves for her niece's first communion. The pattern is from Gabriel Jaime, a Colombian tatting friend.
IsDihara tatted the Jessica Rose by Sharren Sarver Morgan in a pastel variegated thread and liked the look of it. When she tatted Spring Flowers Bookmark by Julie Patterson in a more vibrant variegated thread, she didn't like the look of it at all. She loved the same bookmark tatted in 2 muted solids. Aileen was celebrating her birthday with an afternoon of tatting and finished off a ball of Milford size 20 rainbow. She picked up Jane Eborall's SCMR bookmark that defeated her when she tried it earlier and this time had success tatting it a couple of times in DMC Cebelia, then she broke out the HDT and did it again in Yarnplayer Nectarine and black Milford.

Fox tatted the heart by Irene Woo again using Yarnplayer's "Garden Afternoon" and got it right this time. She is finding the bobbin in her Pop-a-Bobbin shuttle is difficult to turn and she's wondering if anyone knows why or how to fix it?
M tatted Eightsome Reel from the book A Pattern Book Of Tatting by Mary Konior in Lizbeth 40, col 670, Victorian Red.

Friday, March 19, 2010

Doilies, Motifs and Hearts

Sue has only been tatting for a couple of months but she's ready to join the challenge because it already looks like she's off to a good start.
Carolyn tatted "Arches" by Marilee Rockley in an unknown size 30 thread that's very pretty in pink. Agasunset is in a design quandary and doesn't know where to go next.

Ann has nothing much to show for her tatting except a snippet from her TAT work.

Katherinne shows us "Hearts Desire," tatted by Beelizabeth in Lizbeth that Katherinne had dyed.
Vinnie has tatted a heart that emerged from her spring doily and she's giving us a peek at something new she is working on and hopes to have finished by the end of the month. Vinnie also has a request for people to tat he Spring doily and show her how it looks. Different people, different tension sometimes results in different results.

Ancolie has finished the baby bonnet that has morphed into a doily. Shhhhh! don't tell anyone and we'll all just think you were designing a doily from the start.
Fox has picked up a needle to start needle tatting. She tried out a couple of rings and then tried a heart and immediately got turned around, making the chain solid and the rings variegated, when what she was striving for was just the opposite.
Sherry has had some questions raised about her new like of metal shuttles which she has answered on her blog. Wally has posted a picture and pattern for a motif that uses roll tatting.