Quints

Still using Sue Hanson's pattern:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120811100815/http://freespace.virgin.net/bo.hanson/Tatting/CrystalRing/CrystalsRing.html

Still tatted in size 40 Butterfly Breeze, 

this time I used a frosted gem, clear beads, 

and a silver bangle bracelet.

 I used up the thread on that shuttle making 

the last 4 suncatchers so...on to another color.

Lizbeth size 40 Juicy Watermelon.

With red and green beads and a green 

bangle bracelet like a watermelon's 

outer rind.

 All 5 in a row.

 Having limited supplies is frustrating, but I have a 

size 40 Correction 80 Lizbeth Peacock Blues along and some blue 

gems and beads so....I am working on a design of my own. 

.  We shall see what it ends up looking like later.

I think I will be ok with my craft show stock 

if I keep going.  ;)
Here is a picture of our land cleared.

Still not sure what is going to happen and when so 

we are still in a hotel room.

Have a wonderful day and hope you get some tatting done!! :)

Tatted and finished today

If I could stay at this rate I would have plenty 

for the craft shows!!!  ;)

This is another Ice Drop Suncatcher using Sue

Hanson's pattern:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120811100815/http://freespace.virgin.net/bo.hanson/Tatting/CrystalRing/CrystalsRing.html

Tatted again in size 40 Lizbeth Butterfly Breeze 

and my crackle beads,but using a different 

color beads this time.

And another one set aside to be made and to 

draw out another color of the thread. The 

first one pulled out the teal, this one the 

yellow, the next pink.  ;)

 Here are the 2 side by side to see the difference.

Oh, I added 8 more motifs to the tablecloth last night-

still making progress!

More bad news on the house/land deal, but prayer 

and tatting are helping me through. 

Have a great day tatting along!!!! :)

2014 25 Motif Challenge #'s 4 & 5

 Motif # 4 is Wedding or Anniversary Cross(Wedding for my purpose) by Dee Powell in the book Tatted Bookmarks Needle & Shuttle edited by Barbara Foster.

It's tatted with DMC gold metallic thread 40m and Lizbeth Snow White size 20.  It's really quite small(not what I was expecting) maybe about 3 inches high.

 Motif #5 is a one of a kind.  This beautiful pin came from Fox one day and anxiously awaited some embellishment.  Well....I finally got around to "risking" it and went to work yesterday and this is what came out.  I didn't want to detract from the beauty of the pin, so I just highlighted it a bit with some tatting.  :)

It's tatted in (I believe) size 40 HDT from Jess at Tat-i-licious.  It was a request for a thread called confetti, but somehow I didn't really get my idea across to her.  Either way she came up with this beautiful colorway which I called Hippie Summer cuz' it looked like blue jeans and sunset.  Well, the colors matched the colors in this pin so beautifully I knew they had to go together!!!  :)  

And the beads are from Jon at TAT-A-RENDA.

 I had trouble getting a good picture, but here are 2.  :)

Last of all, I got another suncatcher done for my mother-in-law's friend.  :)  This is Sue Hanson's Val's Suncatcher:  http://freespace.virgin.net/bo.hanson/Tatting/CrystalRing/CrystalsRing.html  (for some reason the link doesn't seem to be working now).  It's tatted in size 40 Lizbeth Tropical Punch with cheap kids pink(they really are pink, but it only seems to show in the glow on the picture) beads.

Tatting in slow motion

I feel like I can't tat fast enough, or just that things have slowed me down. I have been working on a doily which I am on the last round and hoping to have done soon(no promises). And I have another suncatcher done this time in Lizbeth size 40 Purple Iris Fusion with cheap plastic kids beads, but they match so well. :)
This is Sue Hanson's Val's Suncatcher:  http://freespace.virgin.net/bo.hanson/Tatting/CrystalRing/CrystalsRing.html

I also have a few other things to show hopefully tonight or tomorrow. :)

Requests getting done!! :)

Here are the suncatchers!! The top 2 are my mother-in-law's, the bottom rainbow is my friend's, and the last one is for me. :) Have a very happy day!!! :)
This is Sue Hanson's Val's Suncatcher:  http://freespace.virgin.net/bo.hanson/Tatting/CrystalRing/CrystalsRing.html

Oh, and I should mention that the beads are all cheap plastic kids beads I have had for years(since my girls-who are all adults now-were young and making little "necklaces" and such).

Suncatchers catching on... :)

I made our oldest granddaughter a rainbow suncatcher.
This is Sue Hanson's Val's Suncatcher:  http://freespace.virgin.net/bo.hanson/Tatting/CrystalRing/CrystalsRing.html

Then another..this for our youngest daughter(21). And as you can see it's hung already.

And my friend has requested a rainbow one. And my mother-in-law a rainbow one and a pink/purple/blue one. And this weekend when we surprised my mother-in-law with a birthday celebration she loved the bracelet I made her, and she saw the Valentine heart earrings I made and gave me $4 for them. The bracelet and one of the Valentine heart earrings is in this previous post: http://hiskid66.blogspot.com/2012/01/lots-of-tatting-and-updates-and-2012-25.html

So....now I am off to make another 3 suncatchers(sure am glad I bought many bangle bracelets!). :)

Have a great day everyone!!!

2012 25 Motif Challenge Motif # 5 Suncatcher

Oh my goodness this is pretty(to me). This is Sue Hanson's Val's Suncatcher:  http://freespace.virgin.net/bo.hanson/Tatting/CrystalRing/CrystalsRing.html

It's made in a bangle bracelet and in size 40 Pink/Purple/Blue variegated HDT from Jess at: http://jess-tats.blogspot.com/ I love this gorgeous thread!!! And I think this will be a birthday gift for our youngest granddaughter and make another for her older sister, and I have a request from my youngest daughter(21) for a Rainbow-licious one.