Ornaments, Heart, Ice Drops, Bag, Motifs, Doilies, Collar, Snowflakes and Tablecloth

Vera tatted Mary Konior's Queen of Hearts to add to this ornament to commemorate her 42nd anniversary.

Batty Tatter has 12 Ice Drops ready for her Christmas market and one of these is already spoken for.

Elsa has posted a tutorial on doing a lark's head join. Her bag is progressing slowly and has been facilitated by utilizing the lark's head join

Melanie tried out Matilda, a pattern by Lee Hye-oon.

Sue has taken a page from Jane Eborall's book and tatted a Rachel doily.

Claire spotted a tatted collar used twice on the costumes in the series Downton Abbey.

Diane has been busy cleaning up clutter and reorganizing in preparation for all of the Christmas activities so she only managed one Ice Drop. After decorating for Christmas she was able to tat 2 more Ice Drops.

Margaret tatted Barbara Murdock's Snowflake Ice Drop using bungle beads instead of a round bead. She tatted the Cosmic Ice drop by Nicola Bowersox and not having the right colour of gem she used purple nail polish to cover the back of a clear gem.

Marie's marvellous rendition of Robin's, Reflection Snowflake  demanded attention to tat. Her Christmas tree is decorated with quilling, tatting, and homemade ornaments. While her little tree is decked out with baubles from her two books Tattasaurusing, Baubles and Motifs.

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Muskaan tatted squares in pink. An elongated ring resulted in a diamond. Left over thread made a button motif. Playing around with squares can lead to lots of interesting variations. She test tatted Guoda’s lovely first snowflake pattern but had to change to notation to something she was more familiar with. For the outer motifs on her doily she used a repeat of the very 1st round where she used double picots.

HisKid tatted Mary snowflake from 20 Twenty to Make Tatted Snowflakes by Jennifer Williams, worked in size 20 Lizbeth Blue Ice with tiny blue beads.
This next snowflake is named Auriel and it was the placement of beads that made this one hard. She tatted another Birthday Ice Drop in Lizbeth size 20 Snow White with gold beads and a frosted gem. Here's all of her recent projects. The tablecloth is growing. It's slow growth, but it's still growth.

Doilies, Hats, Crosses, Bag, Ice Drops, Button Motifs, Fair Entries, Techniques and Tatting Conventions

Vera found time got away from her and she didn't accomplish what she expected or blog as often as she might have, but she did tat.

Marthanne has row #12 finished on her size 40 doily, which only has one more row and it is done. Here is the doily made in size 20 thread and Row 13 is going like greased lightening row although she had to remember how to do the onion ring. It's going so fast she only has 7 more repeats to go. Well, she did, until she let her mind wander and then this happened. Really, really close to the end, and doesn't that just feel like somebody moved to goal posts?

Batty Tatter is getting ready for the fall market with a lot of tatted hats. Think it's enough? She spent some time at a craft fair and was visiting with one of the vendors who gave her some balls of tatting thread, so she tatted a cross for her, but now she can't decide which cross to send.

Elsa was charmed by the frivolity pouch design created by Sumi Fujishige and published in the book, Exquise Frivolité although she removed a lot of the beads for a more sober look. She modified the flap making three triangles from a design by Pascale Provost and mounted the finished work on fabric for more stability.

Diane measured the Hanging Garden doily and it's already 7 inches across. Tollway Tatters got together again and Ana worked on her very first Ice Drop using a red glass gem and white thread. Barbara also worked on an Ice Drop. Sue brought the box of Ice Drops she made for the Christmas tree that Denise is setting up as a library fund raiser. Mary was needle tatting, but the ladies are trying to persuade her to try the shuttles. Denise worked on flowers for one of the classes she's signed up for at Palmetto Tat Days. Sue Anna was tatting, but Diane can't recall what she was working on, although it's usually one of Marilee's designs. Marilee was sporting a beautiful necklace from her second Craftsy class and also had on very pretty earrings. She was working on this technique from a Japanese book. Diane worked on her Hanging Garden doily, but she's not quite finished yet. Having neglected her Ice Drops, she decided to concentrate on getting a few done and she has been working in size 20 Lizbeth #131, Vineyard Harvest. Staying inside and watching the solar eclipse on TV left her hands free to tat the Hanging Garden doily from Tatting lace with your life. The rings are in Lizbeth Green Coral Sea, while the chains are in Azalea Lt and the finished size is 8 1/2". She still managed to tat another Ice Drop in Vineyard Harvest.

Fox has been tatting up some Magic Buttons. They don't take long to tat and they make nice little gifts.

Marie cleaned up in the awards department at the fair. She wanted a smaller flower doily based on a Jan Stawsz design.

Muskaan shows how to hide ends in a multiple colour Quatrefoil design. (How awesome is it that she takes the time to tat and photograph all these techniques?) More pictures of how to do it. Check out Muskaan's blog to save me just copying the whole thing! Using picot gauges.

Sue tatted these flowers in size 20 Lizbeth Rainbow Taffy using an online pattern. A friend wanted the Root Beer Fudge Ice Drop with a purple gem and at the Tollway Tatters meeting, Diane was able to oblige with the purple gem, so Sue tatted this one just for her. Denice shared with the group his fabulous tatted toy horse which she will be sewing to this baby onesie. Diane worked on her doily. Everyone is so involved in their tatting, no one looked up for the picture.

Wanda is getting ready for Palmetto Tat Days, but somehow her shuttles have gone missing, or she thought they were until she realized there were a lot works in progress with shuttles attached. Three clovers and an Aerlit with some spare bobbins should be enough.