A little tatting(24 hours worth) during travel for vacation. :)

These are tatted beaded garlands for some artificial Christmas wreaths I want to decorate.  I tatted them while traveling from Michigan to Tennessee and back again last week.

I tatted around the silver one on the way to, and around the red one on the way back.  They are just beaded necklaces which they sell for Mardi Gras in packs of 12.  I cut the joined section out(just a couple of beads) and then have one strand about 2-3 ft. long.  It took approximately 12 hours with breaks to tat each one.

  I really like how well they turned out!

Give-away winnings, garlands, and a bracelet

My winning package from Fox's give-away came.  Look at the wonderful things!!  3 books, 1 ball of thread, and 1 pretty shuttle.  :)  Can't wait to try some of the new patterns, but that will have to wait till late August or September.

Here are 2 very small Christmas garlands which will decorate artificial wreaths.  The red has size 40 Lizbeth white.  The blue is done with size 20 Lizbeth Blue Ice(everyone's favorite so far).

Here is a bracelet for me.  It's not what I had planned, but it's ok.  The pattern is from Tatted Bookmarks Edited by Babara Foster.  It's called Flowers(it's a bookmark turned into a bracelet).  The thread is size 40 Lizbeth Wildflower Garden with flower beads.

 Due to the fact that I didn't know how the beads would turn out on here I only had enough to do the front of the bracelet, so the back is plain, but my daughter says it's great so you can set your wrist down without having beads underneath.

Tatting on a beaded garland

This is a tatted beaded garland inspired by Snapdragon Lace pattern here: http://www.snapdragonlace.com/?p=886 

This one is 10 feet long.  The beads must be much larger than the strand in the pattern cuz' I couldn't use her stitch count of 3 p 3,   I had to use 7 p 7 for one side of each bead.  Oh, and I used size 10 thread.

 Here's a close-up

 Doesn't look like 10 feet, but it is.  The garland strand was actually 32 feet long, so I cut it into 3- 10 foot sections, and gave my daughter the other 2 feet(which I will have to show what was done with that).  :)