Doilies, Motifs, Earrings and Necklaces

Paula is offering this as a giveaway in honour of International Tatting Day.
Tatteristic is fascinated with Mary Konior's Tatting with Visual Patterns and this one is the Clover pattern that she tatted using her new Pop-A-Bobbin shuttle.
IsDihara is on to round 3 of the fair doily and found it was ruffling quite a bit. Then she used a quick zap of steam to block it and it's laying out flat. Using different size threads can have undesirable effects on your lace. and blocking in between rows gives you a better idea of how it's working. Zapping lace with the steam iron helps to do near instant blocking with cotton tatting, but don't do it with tatting that incorporates either blending filaments, which are mostly plastic, or beads that are plastic. I've had them melt into my pressing cloth, which, fortunately at the time was a paper towel, so nothing was ruined but the tatting.
Mica finishes her first 25 with the Fifteenth Day of December from Bjørn's 24 Snowflakes in Tatting. Made with 1 strand of DMC metallic floss.
Vinnie was having a lazy Sunday afternoon so she decided to sketch some ideas and of course she had to tat what she sketched and then take it for a photo shoot. Here they are, lovely pink and black earrings.
Bonnie wants to enjoy the process of tatting and not focus so much on the end results so that less than perfect results won't bother her so much.
Aileen figured out how to tat over a curtain ring with the help of Jon's book, Tatting with Rings and finished Kejora in size 40 Milford thread with size 11/0 haematite coloured beads and a black crystal.
Anne has fixed the motifs on row 11, finished row 12 and now she's on to row 13. The end is in sight!
Fox tried so very hard to complete the heart with the vibrant Corsage HDT, but in the end, the thread ran out. So she started again in teal, with #50 Altin Basak which she had found too soft and floppy in the past, but as it happens her tension has improved since the last time she used this thread and the finished tatting feels quite stiff. Hooray practice! Fox has shown both pieces side by side so that the size difference can be seen. There are four repeats in the teal and only three in the Corsage.
Heather has tatted the same design once with 2 shuttles and once using SCMR and she'd like opinions on which looks better.
M tatted motif 13 from the book The Tatted Artistry Of Teiko Fujito in Lizbeth 40, col 613, golden yellow medium, although it took a bit of blocking to get it to lay flat. Now she wants to find something a little larger to tackle but she can't find anything she likes. TattingChic is offering this Learn to Tat book in her blogaversary giveaway.

Doilies, Butterflies, Hearts and Snowflakes

Sue tatted the Christmas tree from Be-Stitched.com and emptied some shuttles making butterflies. She has the 5th round done on her doily and took a break from it to try out the Button Cross by Birgit Phelps but it didn't work. She likes how the clovers turned out so she tried to make something all on her own. She's calling it a bookmark. Shhhh! don't tell anyone, that's where a lot of patterns come from. Ann shows us a left over length of tatting used to trim the little one's dress and she also points us to someone who has just succumbed to the lure of tatting.

Steph has unveiled the project she gave us a sneak peek at earlier. It's one of Adelheid Dangela's Kirsten butterfly that she tatted with size 80 threads in DMC black and yellow, a vintage J&P Coats in red for the three-ring clovers and Tatskool's 'Flame Lantana' for the four-ring clovers. It's an absolutely stunning butterfly that looks like it's about to take flight. Vinnie has another picture of her Spring Doily heart, this one tatted by Mageretha. She's excited that she has been asked by Georgia to teach the Spring Doily Pattern and the heart on March 29th.
Anne took a break from reconstructing the large doily and tatted Motif 10 from the book Tatting the Gr-8 Self-Closing Mock Ring by the Shuttle Brothers.
Fox thinks she has finally mastered Vinnie's heart, only now she's worried that she may not have enough of the Corsage HDT to finish it.
Heather's latest project is ready to get flung out the window, except that it's attached to her new shuttle.
Maria has been participating in Valentine's exchange and making tatted pieces for a crazy quilt block. The tatted snowflakes were embellished with hearts and beads and stitched onto a fabric postcard. The tatted hearts were mounted in acrylic hearts. The little flowers for crazy quilting have been embellished with beads.

Marty modified "Ice Crystal" from Blomqvist and Persson's Tatting Patterns and Designs by using only six repeats of the pattern instead of eight then for the bottom she used the diamond motif made by the pattern with six repeats instead of four.

Doilies. Cross, Heart, Motif

Sue worked on her doily and has finished round 4.
Agasunset has done an Art Deco bracelet.

NancyD tatted Mary Konior's small cross pattern in Lizbeth size 20 medium purple.

Ann tatted this butterfly which is part of part of edging #98 from The Tatted Artistry of Teiko Fujito, but the front/side back side twisted picot dilemma nearly drove her nuts.
IsDihara started a doily years ago but ran out of thread and never finished it. She started the Purple and Teal Square Doily by Debbie Arnold for the County Fair in LadyShuttleMaker's Treebeard HDT in size 50 and Lizbeth Linen size 40 and she's already finished the second round.
Diane finished the second section of Primrose Path by Mary Konior. She was nearly finished when she realized she was short one section of chain on the first round and had to cut it out.
Fox tatted Mary Konior's Queen of Hearts in Karey Solomon's HDT she got this thread last September at the Fringe Element Tatters event.
Sherry created a special shuttle for Tatskool and sent if off to Ireland. She's been busy making some new pottery pieces with tatting impressions. Unique one of a kind pieces.

Doilies, Snowflakes, Hearts and Bookmarks

Sue started tatting in January and she has already shown us her poster board filled with the things she has made. Her first entry for the challenge were these candy canes by Anita H. from the online tatting class, which I somehow missed. She completed the third round on the doily she is making and put it aside to do something different and made this little butterfly which is a bit larger than her usual flutter. Then she tried the Beaded Snowflake from Tatted Snowflakes by Vida Sunderman.
Agasunset has decided which way to go with her Red Queen Necklace Swarovski crystals to give it a finishing touch. Paula has been a very busy tatter trying to get some practice in and learn a few more techniques before Shuttlebirds Tatting Days Workshop next month. The celtic snails were taught at the January guild meeting. The first one was tatted in Lizbeth size 20 in Springtime and the second is Lizbeth size 20 Light Lemon. The Sweetheart bookmark is tatted in Yarnplayers size 30 Purple Pansy. The purple Octamotif is a Shuttle Brothers pattern she used to learn SCMR's made with size 10 Cebelia in lavender color 210. The Ecru Double O Cross is from the book Tatted Bookmarks - Needle and Shuttle, worked in Flora HH size 20 color 242. The medallion is a pattern challenge from the Dec guild newsletter in Cebelia size 20 in color 842 mocha. Julie Patterson's Hearts and Flowers Cross Bookmark was made in Flora HH size 20, color 205 Buttercup - Med.

Edging, Motif and frustration

Sue took a break from the doily to work on a Square Medallion from Tatting with Anne Orr and it looks OK in spite of a slight error in judgement where she cut her thread too soon and had to add more in. We've all been there done that. It's like accidentally cutting the top off a picot when you snip your final thread, we've all done that at least once. (If you haven't, it's something you have to look forward to.)
M is working from Tatting Patterns and Designs and is getting frustrated with it. Short notation patterns tell you to join, but not where, so you have to keep looking at the picture and sometimes this picture isn't detailed enough to clarify things. It doesn't help that some of the patterns have been reported to have errors in them, but quite a few people really love the book.