Butterflies, Doilies, and Motifs

Sharon is still not up to posting, so you'll have to settle for me (Jeff) again. As with the last post, the participants are not in the same order as they are listed on the right.

Heather has tatted Elizabeth's Small Cross in Aunt Lydia's crochet cotton, size 10 in white. It's not the best thread for tatting, but Heather bought it when she first learned tatting, and is trying to use it up.

Marta tatted Jon Yusoff's Chinese Coin bookmark, adding an outer round of a similar look to the bookmark.

Kristen gets to have a 5 day weekend, so she has decided to catch up on things that need doing, including tatting. She tatted a series of motifs from Tatting: Patterns and Designs by Gun Blomqvist and Elwy Persson. She tatted the motifs as they are pictured in the book, from simplest to hardest.

Mary tatted another pendant. This time a little butterfly, done in pink.

Isabel answered Georgia's call for volunteers to tat something using Ruth Perry's Tatted Mock Hair Pin Lace technique. Isabel designed her own motif.

Bonnie also answered Georgia's call for volunteers for the Tatted Mock Hair Pin Lace technique. She tatted Saundra Hameed's Round Center Motif. Bonnie has never done real Hair Pin Lace, so she didn't quite understand the technique. After researching HPL, she realized she made the centre picots too long. It's still pretty, though.

Fox is still tatting up a storm. While waiting for a reply to an email she sent, Fox tatted a motif from Spitzen Kreationen by Susanne Schwenke, and she used Lizbeth #40 Sea Island Citrus with a yellow #40 Mercer. Also from the same book, Fox had some issues tatting the second motif (a snowflake), mainly with the abbreviations in the book. It can happen to anyone. Fortunately a fellow tatter was there, via email, to help. 

Diane's blue doily is coming along nicely. It's getting so big, it's hanging off of her computer. Diane had a bit of trouble with this round, mainly with the flower motifs cupping. If she had noticed earlier she could have adjusted the stitch counts. But with a bit of pressing, it turned out fine. She only has two more rounds to go.

Gina started tatting her Winter Butterfly. She set it aside for now. She's not happy with how it looks. The thread she is using for the wings is too bright for her taste. She also added a silver thread to the white thread in the body, and it adds enough thickness to the thread to make it thicker than the other butterflies bodies. She figures she may have to remake the body in a thinner thread, and possibly the wings too.

Lily found the perfect motif to tat for a ring finding she purchased. Using Lyn Morton's book Tatted Jewelry she tatted a motif called Candlelight Flower. Despite the motif cupping, Lily finds that she likes the motif (she didn't at first), and has stiffened the chains so they stand up. She still has a bit of finishing left to do on it. Finally, Lily started tatted Orsi's Napoleon motif using Hakelgarn size 10 thread in a pale yellow. She plans on making a pendant using the motif.

Animals, Bookmarks, and Doilies

Since Sharon isn't able to update the 25 Motif Challenge, I thought I'd step in and do one for her. It's been awhile since I've done an update, so please forgive me if I miss anyone. Don't worry if you've been missed, you will be in the next update. Please note: the participants are not in the same order as they are in the list-I don't think it matters, but I'm just sayin'.

Anika shares with us her thread dyeing techniques.

Ginny has tatted a cat in an unnamed size 10 thread and Dianna Steven's alligator.

Jess shows us a bookmark she designed. She also tatted Jon's Merriment Doily/Coaster twice; one in Lizbeth size 40 Confetti, and the other in Lizbeth size 40 Denim Whisper. Her final motif was one she made up while traveling, this one done in Lizbeth size 20 thread.

Ninetta designed an absolutely adorable pair of baby booties with a butterfly on the top. She made the first bootie is DMC size 80 thread in pink, but it is too small. The size 60 thread she tried next is also too small. She figures a size 30 thread should work. She also shares with us an edging made using a Celtic Tatting technique she learned.

Mary tatted a pendent over a cabone ring.

Bonnie tatted KBDesignOriginal's Rosy Ironbark bookmark. She has tatted this pattern several times, but has forgotten to photograph them until now.

Isdihara has tatted Orsi's Napoleon motif using Lizbeth 40 #638 Christmas Green. She has also tatted Wanda Salmon's Heart's Honor Bookmark in Lizbeth 40 Peacock Blues. Finally she shares with us Toothless, the  Flying Minor Norwegian Dragon by Anne Bruvold. Quite a few threads were using in making him, and Isdihara changed the pattern a bit to suit her needs.

Carol made a Twilight inspired bookmark using Mark Meyer's Apple and Bat patterns.

Brigitte has tatted edging # 8902 from the Tatter's Treasure Chest which she intends to sew onto the cuffs of a denim shirt. She used white Lizbeth Size 20 thread.

Gina has tatted another butterfly using summer inspired colours, Yarnplayer's Garden Afternoon size 20 and Lizbeth Leaf Green Medium in size 20. She also tatted Jon's Chinese Coin bookmark using size 30 Cebelia. Everything was going good until she found an error while working the second side. She plans on tatting it again another time.

Fox is one busy lady. Since she posts nearly daily, I'm only going to show what she has done in the past couple of days. I urge everyone to go to her blog to see everything she has posted. Hopefully everyone will understand (especially Fox). Fox tatted a motif from Myra Piper's book using Finca size 16 thread for the first motif and a larger thread for the second motif. She added the second round of tatting to the motif she working on from Frivolité de Corinn. She used some of Yarnplayer's  Celery HDT but found it was smaller than the thread she used for the centre. It cupped so she had to cut off the second round. Finally she tatted Jon's Baiduri snowflake using Cebelia size 20 for the white thread.

Dianne has made a little progress on Corinne's doily that she is working on. She has also made a little progress tatting her blue doily.

Cindy has been practicing making clunies. She took a break from clunies to make Elizabeth's little Cross bookmarks. She used size 20 Lizbeth thread to make them.

Kat has tatted two pairs of Krystle's Spanish Dancer earrings in Lizbeth white and red. She also tweaked the pattern to make a pendant using Lizbeth Vineyard Harvest. She both needle and shuttle tatted these motifs.

Lily was inspired by Krystal Dawn and Yarnplayer and created a necklace using a tatted flower she made earlier for a gift.

Wanda made a tatted spider and web for a Halloween decoration to enter in the state fair. She tatted the web using size 80 Lizbeth color 602 natural along with a strand of metallic Coats threads. The spider is made using gold Cebelia size 30, color #437.

Sue has been working on her tablecloth. It is currently 35 inches long.

Sherry has posted a free pattern for a mock hairpin lace doily.

I think that's everybody. Again my apologies if I missed anyone.