Personal challenge update

Ok, I finished # 14 of 24.

This is Christmas Bauble- with a floral band 2013 by 

Jennifer Williams tatted on a glass ornament which 

is approx. 3 inches across, and it's size 20 Lizbeth 

Snow White thread.

 I tatted the center band as the pattern says, then the 

top and bottom sections around the band, but it 

wasn't enough to stay on the ornament itself so, 

I tatted chains to the bottom section of 3-6-3 joining 

as I went around to draw it in.

 Then I pulled a string 

through the top picots and pulled tightly and tied 

it off and added a dab of glue, let it dry and cut 

the tail threads. 

 I would need to get 10 more ornaments done before 

Christmas to meet the challenge, but with so many 

things happening and a friend in the hospital for a 

month so far(I have to take care of his home and bills), 

I have resolved to call this enough for now, 

and continue to try.

I filled in the empty spaces with tatted 

Christmas Ice Drops. 

Below is the picture I am sending to the 

store which I bought the ornament stand 

from which requested a photo of it filled.

Maybe people will learn about tatting, and 

maybe they will sell lots of stands.

The store is Bronner's Christmas Store, link

here:  https://www.bronners.com/

It's a gray rainy day today.  I hope you 

are having a wonderful day!!! :)

Happy Tatting!!!!  :)

Very slow tatting

The only tatting to show isn't completed.  As you 

can see it will be another glass covered ornament.

 Ok, now for the lengthy explanation of my lack of 

tatting.  For the past 2 weeks we have been dealing 

with a dear friend in the hospital almost dying.  As 

of yesterday the ventilator and most other machines 

were finally removed and he was able to talk a little 

and as of today he is being moved out of ICU!!  His 

brother and sister-in-law came from Maine to see him 

and thankfully got to talk with him before heading 

home today-we have all been working out the details 

of taking care of his home and such.

Next, last weekend on top of the prior mentioned, 

we had our granddaughter invasion again!!!

It was an extremely busy weekend trying to have 

a little fun in all the chaos.  Our younger granddaughter 

finally received her "heart of Tafiti" necklace from 

the Disney movie Moana, and you can see she loves 

it!!!  :)

 Next, the girls had me make them some earrings in 

between making lots of food for a wedding that 

happened on Sunday after our morning lesson.

The younger granddaughter picked the tiny jingle bells 

and wanted 3 linked together.

 The older wanted a single tiny jingle bell pair.

 The younger chose my size 80 Yarnplayer's Small 

Maple Leaf earrings.

 The older chose small candy cane earrings(these 

are made from the miniature Christmas tree 

decorations).  ;)

 Then the large sequins were spotted and specific 

colors were chosen by each.  This pair by the younger.

And a different set of colors by the older(some how 

I missed taking a picture-too much going on!!!).

They are lightweight and fun!!  

The girls each wore all 3 pairs through out 

Saturday.

 Next activity was to have them decorate the house 

for autumn(cheap and easy).  Our daughter bought 

dollar store packages(2) of autumn colored leaves, 

and we bought 3M brand poster tape which usually 

comes off easy without ruining the walls. 

 Place a little tape on the back and send the child 

off to place wherever(few restrictions of course!).

 So, now the autumn leaves are blowing through the 

house another year.  :)

So, I survived all our normal activities, a friend in 

the hospital in critical care, Sunday morning,

a wedding, and Sunday night.  As of now, I am sick 

with a cold and feeling miserable.  So....everything is 

taking far longer than I want it too, but I have no 

energy left!!  Got to get prepared for another trip to 

the hospital on Saturday, and our normal Sunday 

morning and evening groups!  

Keeping on tatting, and if you would, say a prayer 

for me!  Thank you everyone!!! :)

Some weekend tatting

Another personal challenge ornament # 13.

Altered this pattern again:  http://koroneczka.pl/ 

Look in her patterns link.

Top view.

 Side view.

 Bottom view.

 And Ice Drop earrings in Lizbeth size 40 Elderberry 

Jam with plastic purple beads.

It was an awesome and very busy weekend, but at 

least I got some tatting time.

Have a wonderful tatting filled day!!! :)

Personal Challenge #12 out of 24 done!!!!

Same pattern as last, but on a red ornament this time.

Top view.

 Side view.

 Bottom view.

 12 on the stand!!! 12 left to go.

Somehow I lost the picture of just the small 

ornaments, but I think the picture above shows 

them well enough on the top section.

 The group of medium sized ornaments.

 The group of large ornaments.

 The three sizes, large, medium, and small(tatting a 

little loose makes it look larger).

More to get done, but also lots of other things too.

Have a wonderful day and hope you get your 

tatting in!!!!!!  :)

Personal Challenge # 11

This fits one of my medium sized ornaments- approx. 

2 or 2 1/2 inches across.

The pattern is here:  http://koroneczka.pl/     

which is only part of the actual pattern which is here:  

http://koroneczka.pl/  

Side view # 1

 Bottom view.

Tatted in size 20 Lizbeth Snow White.  The plan 

was to tat the whole pattern, but the top center 

would not go over the hanger piece on the large 

ornament and with a tiny stretch on the joining 

picots it fit around the medium ornament top. 

Top view(same as bottom).

So....I had to improvise and ended up tatting the 

same top and bottom sections, but I left of the 

thrown rings and joined to them instead.  The 

other problem was that the pattern shows a thrown 

ring with the counts and only 6 picots, but I later 

noticed that there are supposed to be 7 picots 

which would have made joining easier.

Instead, I tatted 11 ds on the chain, joined to 

one of the 2 middle picots, then 2 ds and joined 

to the next middle picot, then 11 ds again.

Next time, there will be 7 picots and the chain 

will be 12 join 12.  :)

 Side view # 2.

So....I am 1 ornament away from 1/2 way through 

this personal challenge.  The  store which I bought 

the stand from would like a picture of the stand 

full of the tatted ornaments-before Christmas, 

so....that is my goal!!! :)

Happy tatting everyone!!! :)

Personal challenge #10 done!

This is the same as the red ornament last time. 

Top view.

 Side view.

 Bottom view.

Needing to get some crosses done for men, so...

off to tatting work I go!! :)

Have a tat-filled day!!! :)

Tatting on glass ornament for my personal challenge

I started on Saturday tatting a snowflake pattern 

which has captured my attention.  It's from this 

link:  http://koroneczka.pl/

This is a view from the side.

 A view from the top. I left the center of the snowflake 

out to fit over the top.

 A view from the bottom-the full snowflake.

I loved tatting the whole design!  It lays beautifully, 

and for some reason I think it's really beautiful!! :)

It is tatted in 4 rows.

Working on angels(one done & one in progress).

Have a fabulous day!!! :)

My personal challenge has been put aside too long

Well....after getting the last ornament done I saw a 

snowflake sitting by some patterns I wanted to try 

to tat for ornaments.  So, I tatted the second snowflake 

today joining it to the other and then around the 

glass ornament.  

I love it!!!

 This is Robin Perfetti's Design Tutorial Snowflake. 

The centers of the snowflakes are on the top and 

bottom of the ornament.

 It's tatted in size 40 Lizbeth Snow White.

Here is a good view from the top.

 A view from the bottom.

 My stand(the challenge is to fill the stand with 

tatted ornaments by Christmas-I am only 1/3 

of the way).

I have been watching Christmas movies 

(and today a Thanksgiving movie) to keep 

me inspired!! :)

Happy Tatting everyone!!! :)

Anyone remember???

This post??  https://hiskid66.blogspot.com/2017/05/working-on-my-personal-challenge-again.html

Well, I finally tatted a second Woodland Medallion by Robin 

Perfetti- link here: http://tattingbythebay.blogspot.com/p/free-patterns.html

It's tatted in size 20 Lizbeth Christmas Delight.

I didn't do it justice because I used just 1 shuttle 

and a ball, but I believe it should be tatted with 2 

shuttles. 

Well, it was for my personal challenge.

This is #7 of my tatted ornaments to fill my ornament stand, 

hopefully by Christmas!!!

First the top looking down on it while it's on the stand...

Next, is the side showing the open space it makes.

Our daughter says it reminds her of diamonds.

Next is the tatting joined at the corners.

And finally, the bottom, where you can see the 

Woodland Medallion square pretty well.  :)

Please forgive the annoying reflections!!!

Hope you are having a wonderful day!!

I haven't been feeling too great today so just 

little things are getting accomplished, but I 

have already tatted something else, and next is 

the second of it to make a pair....of what??

You shall soon see!  ;)

Personal challenge # 6

Well, Robin's First Snowfall Snowflake makes an 

elegant ornament decoration(as long as you have 

the right sized ornament and don't cut the ends so 

short that they come undone).

As stated, the top is the same snowflake as the 

bottom with the center rings omitted.

 It's very loose on the ornament and I have to re-adjust 

it each time I pick it up, but I think it's great otherwise!

Below is a picture of the bottom which is the whole 

snowflake.

 Here is the stand with 6 ornaments now(all for me since 

I have many errors in several).  I am a quarter through 

this challenge!!

 And, for anyone wondering size, this stand 

is as tall as our loveseat, and the Snowman 

suncatcher I am creating is half the size of 

this stand(more tatting will be added to 

the snowman in time).  :)

Have a tatfully wonderful weekend!!!  :)