MOTIF # 16

Generic snowflake. Similar to one in the HandyHands, "Tatting ABC's & 123's"

Tatted in size 30 Anchor thread. It is about the size of an old silver dollar (remember those?)

It turned out very lacy looking.

O Tannenbaum!

MOTIF # 15 Design: Pam Palmer from "Tatting Treats 2" In dk green Valdini size 12 and DMC red. This is a very easy tree and great for practicing rings!

Rebekah's Wedding Edging

Motif # 14

Edging for my granddaughter's wedding headpiece being designed by Zena Herbert at SeaofDreams, UK. It's tatted in Anchor size 30 in cream. Zena needed a 6" piece of edging that would curve. This is Mary Konier's, "Beauty Spots"

Snowflake Rose #5

MOTIF #13

Designer: Debbie Munoz from her book, "Snowflake Roses"

Lizbeth size 30 "Snowy White" thread I needed to work on both rosettes and my block tatting; and, this was perfect. (11/14)

A card for my Friend in Sweden

Motif # 12
A card for my friend in Sweden in Rainbow Bright thread (HDT~Pamela Meyers) Design by Marty.

July 3rd ~Exchange Motif

Motif # 11 Inga Madson design, from "Tatted Animals"

My recipient's favorite colors are green and lavender. I decided a soft green body of Valdini in size 8 would work with the body in lavender orchid variegate. The pearls on the antennae are genuine ~ small. The Butterfly is a bit over 3" tall and a little more in width.

I did make two boo boos. I attached the wrong picot of the inner butterfly on the second wing tatted (the right side). There are no instructions given as to how the pearls, from the inner butterfly antennae, are attached. I improvised. Also, since I was on vacation, I could only dampen and pin out the butterfly...and not starch.

This is an advanced visual pattern; but it does work up fairly fast after the first wing. The body is tatted down the left side and back up the right side ~ no instructions for direction of tatting were included ~ so I "winged" it (sorry for the pun).....

May 11, 2007 Bookmarks

Bookmarks: I've been tatting bookmarks since January; since they've accumulated, I decided to have them as this years 25-Challenge. All but one (the tractor) were tatted in 2009.
Some for exchanges, some for friends, relatives, children.

Motif #10 Adaptation of two designs. Karey Somomon's top and Rosmaire Peel, bottom. Done in green size 40 thread
Motif #9 Design: Elizabeth Davis Size 20 thread, Altin Basak with Lavender Orchid blossoms.

Motif #8 Design from "Big Book of Tatting" Cobalt Thread with white ribbon.

Motif # 7 Design from Aunt Ellen's Tatting Book Hand dyed thread with butterfly charm.

Motif #6 Design: Diane Stevens from "Animal Zoo of Bookmarks" Lisbeth size 20 thread, desert flower. Head Aqua from Rainbow Brite hdt from Pamelay Meyers I made this snake for a young man who has a pet snake.

Motif # 5 Design: Adaptation from "Tat Cat" orignally designed by Diana Howe
Valdini Size 12 Thread with blue/black thread from China. Picots were frayed on head and tail for the Lion effect.

Motif #4 Design from Vintage Dillmont booklet from DMC. Rubi Thread size 20 with Light Peach Olympus thread rings and josephine knots

Motif # 3 Designer: Rosemary Peel Using an edging and joining for a bookmark. Size 20 Lavnder Orchid HDT

Motif #2 The bottom of this bookmark is from an insert pattern in Georgia Seitz pattern book. My friend belongs to a Vintage Tractor Club; and, he loves to read. He told me during a visit in May that he really likes it!

Motif # 1 Adapatation of a Rosemary Peel Toggle design...made into a bookmark. Aqua HDT (from Pamela Meyers) with Rainbow Bright varigated thread with beads on top portion.