Unique Tatting

Ruth has tatted a "Silly Yak" that Esther Paris designed. Homer the Silly Yak is the mascot of the Celiac support group.Jon has a local needlecraft store that has started stocking Olympus threads and she's having a great time working with them. See the beautiful ornaments she has made.

Barbara has added 2 more motives to her collection, both designed by Lisa C Trumble and tatted with Anchor variegated 20thread. It won't be long now until we see them all on the pashmina.

Leonore English did a snowflake with hairpin lace and Meme has added the Spanish translation for the design to her blog.

Carol finished her exquisite grapevine doily in time to enter it in the fair along with her other creative designs. Now the suspenseful wait to see if she wins anything.

Laura is working on her pyramid mat but she's changing her ideas as she works. It will be interesting to see how it turns out.

Bhavani took on the 25 Motif Challenge and started working on her tatting right away, then her husband got transferred out of state, and their new home isn't ready yet so they are living out of boxes and at the same time they've had to take their son to various engineering schools for entrance exams. When things settle down a little she'll be able to post more regularly.

Charlene has posted some pictures on how to close a split ring in needle tatting. A third hand is sometimes convenient when you are trying to do a hand craft and take pictures of it at the same time. She has also been tatting some critters, Jane Eborall's lobster and Martha Ess' frog. Both Jane and Martha will be at the Palmetto's Tat days September 7th and 8th.

Sylvia has been away on vacation but didn't forget her shuttles. She has posted a picture of a scarf she did for one of her doll house dolls using Mary Konior's "Midnight" design in size 80 thread. The other article posted is a picture of a celtic design she created and mounted in a ring using invisible thread. The design was made using Altin Basak thread.

Melissa posted a link to the free online magazine called Victoriana Magazine. She is working on another quilt block, this one is white on white.

Sherry is working on a fancier edging, this one is the "Bo Peep" pattern from Mary Konior's Tatting with Visual Patterns. She just might keep this one. Sherry has also been tatting some covered button designs that she just might include in her upcoming book.
Wendy has had the draw for her blogiversary and has offered another article fro those who post a comment on her blog. Wendy has also provided the pattern for a crocheted hexagonal "square" that she will use in an afghan.

Anne has started a flower blog and shows some pictures of some lovely orchids. Since she wasn't busy enough, she has stared to knit a tablecloth, a cotton top and a mystery stole. Well, we know what Anne's going to be doing for the next little while.

Are Geckos and Dragons related?

The Hand Dyed Hues Thread that Clyde has been using spoiled him and now he's decided that the tablecloth he's been working on is going to stay a runner, so that he doesn't have to go back to using an inferior thread. Good thread makes a world of difference.

Snowy has been talking to Laura and posted some pictures of some lacy looking flowers that would make good tatting subjects.

Laura has decided to continue working on the Pyramid Orchid mat using Flora and Cebelia threads and she's hoping that it stays flat.

Pamela has been after Jane to create a gecko pattern and after a little prodding Jane created a gecko, and then another and another, until she had a whole jacket covered in geckos. Check out the pictures on her blog. Pamela gave the pattern a test run and created this little guy. Isn't he sweet? I didn't know geckos could turn their toes up. See Pamela's blog for lots of interesting things about geckos.

Melissa had an opportunity to visit a favorite antique shop and she found some wonderful vintages laces to add to her crazy quilting. Amongst the finds were a pair of delicate lace fingerless gloves which Melissa plans to wear to their next formal.

Sherry's hand is still healing from the dog attack and being unable to work on her pottery she's had more time for other things. She began a tatted design for her aunt and she's not sure what it will become. She finished tatting the white lace border for the hanky she was working on and she likes the simple elegance of it.

Wendy has finished her move and started the unpacking at the other end. The family took time out to enjoy a family reunion over the weekend, a nice break from packing and unpacking. Wendy has started a flicker group for hand made rugs. There's lots of eye candy for anyone who's interested.

Anne has some new origami books and she's been trying out some of the models. Anne has also been tatting this dragon which should have had beads but she didn't have any that would fit the thread. Maybe later on she'll design her own dragon. The round motif is from an old magazine.

Stars and Butterflies Encore!

Ruth has been tatting more stars again. First of all she has created a purple and white celtic star with a twisted cord tassel. That's a quick way to finish off a bookmark. She's also done another celtic butterfly, and this one has 3 beads at the tips of the wings which makes it look even more like a butterfly.

Gail has posted a picture of an orchid she has had for 2 years waiting to finally get this awesome flower.

Arlene lost some stuff when she revamped her blog. SO now she has to do a little re-organizing. She's still working on doilies but tatted nativity scenes and tatted towns have captured her attention.

Mark is leaving for 2 weeks of fresh mountain air, but he'll be taking his camera and his tatting shuttles with him.

Jon received a gift of a lovely bourse (purse) and she has filled it with her shuttles and current WIP. She has photographed it sitting on the crocheted tablecloth that is also a WIP. Gorgeous stuff, all of it.

EeKoon has updated her wish list, is it my imagination or does this list just keep getting longer?

Marilee has posted some more pictures of the wonderful "Encore" earrings she designed. Not only do we get to see this beautiful eye candy, we get to make our own earrings. Marilee has generously posted the pattern for them on her web site. Thank you Marilee, I'm sure there will be lots of encores for this one.

Charlene has tatted the spider web from Mark's web site. She wants the centre filled in more, but filling in the centre made it bowl. This is a practice piece, so she's going to try it again and she how the next one works out. You could always leave the centre as it and tat a spider to fit in it.

Stars, Butterflies, Snowflakes and Doilies

Ruth found a little bag and she has added some stars and stripes to it. Continuing on with the star designs Ruth made a simple celtic star with beads and then another celtic star with more complex weaving in it.

Clyde used Hand Dyed Hues thread Perle10, colour 1202 to make this adaptation on the pattern Lacy Medallion Luncheon Set from the book The Tatters Treasure chest by Mary Carolyn Waldrep. Now it's back to working on the tablecloth. There are a lot of large ongoing projects turning up lately. Clyde and Jon are working on tablecloths and another tatter mentioned on the Here-Be-Tatters list that she is working on a set of curtains.



Laura tatted the snowflake from Nancy Tracy's newsletter. The pattern is available from the Be-stitched website. Laura's sample is done in size 30 DMC Cebelia.The thread arrived for her mat project and now she's not sure if she wants to stop at four motives or continue on and tat more of them.












Melissa continues to work on her CQ block. It's getting prettier all the time.

Sherry has added her grape edging to the pocket on her jeans bag for the Tatting Treasures from Trash challenge and she's going to leave it at that, for now. She was going to use the edging for some linen hankies, but she decided to use a pattern from Mary Konior's, Tatting with Visual Patterns called "Eternity Rings" instead. At least she started with the pattern, but she has modified it a little.

Doilies Edgings, Scarves, Bags, and CQ

Look at all the different things done with tatting.
Arlene is fascinated by the doilies in Iris Niebach's book and who could blame her, they are all so lovely! This one is called Francesca and she's working on it using some wonderful shuttles from the Shuttleshop. Nice shuttles make the process just that much more enjoyable.

Jon created a square motif and when she was looking for something to show a class she tatted some more and joined them together. I just love the pattern within pattern effect that you get when you join motives together. This one is gorgeous. The bookmark she created was to show students 2 shuttle work. Simple brilliant Jon, you have some really marvelous ideas.

EeKoon has been busy knitting and quilting.

Laura posted a picture of embroidered pillowcases she received as a birthday gift.

Marty is showing us some of the pieces that she plans to use to decorate her denim bag in the Tatted Treasures from Trash Challenge. One of the pieces will decorate the edge of a pocket. The other is a mystery piece. Do the chains look like ripples?

Melissa has been working on a CQ block and used some of the tatted flower designs she learned to embellish it.

Sherry has tatted some more lace to use on her denim bag. Now she has some matching tatting on the back of her bag and she's already taken the bag out for a test run. She admits that sewing the tatting onto the bag was a real challenge. We all know what that's like, but once it's attached and every little picot sewn down it won't come off no matter what you do to the bag. The scrapes and bruises from the dog attack are healing but Sherry is missing a large chunk of skin off her hand. I can see why she hasn't been able to work on her pottery. You sure wouldn't want dirt collecting in that kind of wound.

Anne finished the scarf, attached the motives and tatted a nice wide border for the ends of it. The border appears to be made with the same thread that the scarf was knitted from. The knitted scarf is green, but the border has some blue rings in it. You can see a close up of it on her blog. The thread doesn't appear to be variegated and the blue in the border is the exact same colour as the blue motives. It looks like Anne has carefully tatted tiny sections in blue and cleverly hidden the ends.It's cleverly constructed and simply beautiful.

Stars, Butterflies, Flowers and Dimpled Hearts

Ruth is back! After packing and moving and unpacking and being sick, Ruth is back with a whole lot of beautiful stars. Welcome back, Ruth we missed you.

Clyde has been outdoors planting his summer garden. What a lovely corner to relax in.

Mark had a wonderful time doing a lacemaking demo at Grande Levee where he met a blind woman and her daughter. He was able to share a memorable hands on experience with them that will be cherished forever. Check out the the display table in the picture and the cakes he did on his blog. Wow.

Sharon hasn't used a chatelaine before, but after she made this one to hold her tatting tools, she found it handy to have around. It clips on your belt rather than hanging around the neck and can be modified to hold more tools. The pattern for it is in the Tatted Lace Pattern Collection newsletter that you can order from her web site.

Snowy posted a design that reminded her of pyramid orchids and Laura fell in love with it. Here's Laura's adaptation of the design. We're not sure who the author is, it might be Cathy Bryant. Laura has done 3 of the motives using different colours for the rings and will do a fourth, as soon as the thread she ordered arrives. Laura also had a chance meeting in Michaels where she ran into a young lady who wanted to learn how to tat. So Laura showed her how.

Charlene has been practicing her dimpled rings and made a sweet little pink bookmark and another edging of dimpled rings. Lots of edgings can be made for seam treatments on CQ blocks with tatting.

In spite of the injuries she sustained from the dog attack Sherry has persisted and designed and tatted a butterfly and a flower to go on her tatted bag for the Tatting Treasures from Trash challenge. Aren't they gorgeous?

Anne just got a new origami book and she had to fold the dragon. He's a cutie. Now where is the tatted dragon ;-)

Scorpion, Necklace, Hearts, and Motives,

I managed to run through all of the blogs yesterday but was too pooped to post, so here it is a day late.
Diana has been using embroidery thread for her tatting recently, just so that she could take advantage of the wide variety of colours offered. She's done a doily and some bells, but hasn't had an opportunity to take pictures yet.

Barbara had tatted an oval medallion designed by Lisa Trumble in an Anchor variegated size 20. There's a minor error on the inner ring which won't show once it's attached to the shawl. Another Lisa Trumble design is the Knobby Bud medallion also done with a variegated Anchor 20. That's motif 21 so it won't be long now until Barbara can start attaching them to the shawl.









Sharon is wavering between making a bag from an old pair of jeans or adding tatting to one of 3 bags she already has for the Tatting Treasures from Trash challenge. Somebody's got to start putting some tatting on these bags soon. I'm getting tired of looking at naked bags.

Marilee has turned the polymer clay piece into the 3D centre of a necklace. The colour is rust, but it shows up as a deep red on my monitor.

Charlene learned how to make a dimpled ring at the Palmetto's meeting. Some things make more sense when you actually see someone doing it.

Pamela tells us all about her adventures in exotic places where she was bit by a scorpions, on.her. honeymoon. As an anniversary project she decided to tat a scorpion. Referring to the specimens from her honeymoon, she modified Jane Eborall's pattern to make it more realistic. I think she succeeded because I wouldn't want to find this little critter in my slippers in the morning.
Melissa had a request for one of the tatted heart designs from her Etsy shop and she has progressed so well with the shuttle that she did this one with the shuttle. She has received a quilt block to embellish in a round robin and she pulled a number of items out of her stash to be used on the block, and sketched a wee design to be sewn on. I'm sure it will look stunning when it's completed. Wendy continues to pack and move boxes. They're mostly moved in to the new house, but still don’t have internet service hooked up.

Sunshine, Grapes, Butterflies and Flowers

Blame it on the weather. I haven't updated recently simple because I've been outside having fun instead of inside on the computer.

Clyde posts a picture of a glass gazing ball he painted with a lovely Hibiscus flower.

Jon tatted this lovely sunshine yellow purse using size 20 Hakelgarn Online crochet thread and about 480 beads. The pattern is form the Japanese book A new Approach to Tatting by Yusai Shokoin. It was done for an exchange and Jon's partner thought it was like a bit of sunshine. What a beauty!

Carol took an old crochet doily idea and reproduced it in tatting. It's a cluster of grapes and leaves and it looks yummy.

Marilee did a variation of Sherry Pence's Continuous Tatted Butterfly using Size 20 Flora for the black, and the colored thread is her own hand dyed DMC Cordonnet Special. She's also playing around with some polymer clay that didn't turn out quite right to see what she can create with it. So far it looks interesting and it would make a nice lapel pin.

Charlene was at the Palmetto's June meeting where she met Melissa and her husband. The day's lesson was Tatted Flowers led by Marie Smith. These are some of the flower samples Charlene has done from the class. She'll soon have a whole bouquet to use on her quilt blocks.

Pamela took a break from tatting critters to work on a doily.The pattern is Emily from Janet Carroll's book 'Elegant Tatting Patterns'.Tatted in Size 20 Coats Anchor and Flora threads the doilies measure about 8 inches. She had a lot of time to tat and she's done the doily in several variations and they're all beautiful.

Melissa and her hubby attended the Palmetto's June meeting and met Charlene. They worked on Marie Smith's flowers and hubby got in on the act and tatted a fern for Melissa to use in her crazy quilting. Melissa learned how to do a folded join and a new technique for a dimpled ring which is much easier to do. She's had a lot of requests from her Etsy shop for small tatted items that can be used in CQ. She's been so busy making these lovelies that it finished up her 25 Motif Challenge and now she has to decide if she wants to start over again.Sherry has had a terrible time. She was riding her bike with her dog when another dog attacked them and Sherry went skidding down the road. No pottery or tatting for a while until she heals up. Fortunately she had already finished tatting her big project. Here's her creation, a wonderful doily with her grape edging gracing the border. What an interesting and innovative design.Anne has her scarf knitted and an assortment of motives tatted for it. All she has to do now is arrange and sew the motives on and tat a border for the ends. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished scarf. It should be gorgeous.