Sea Island Citrus Star flowers

Emptying a shuttle and making starflowers!!  :)

These are in size 40 Lizbeth Sea Island Citrus.

The first is what it looks like before the second round

is added, and the second one is complete.  

I love these starflowers, and the colors!!!  :)

Happy Tatting everyone!!! :)

Newest start on Christmas started for those

interested, go the Christmas blog. 

A little bit of Tatting

Well...I haven't done much.  The small Starflower was done this week,

 and the large one today.  Sometimes people want to know the size

difference, so...here is a Large Starflower(my first) which is going to be 

a pendant to which I will make a pair of matching earrings to add to it,

hmmm....and maybe a bracelet??. And, also a Small Starflower(which the

last join is messed up, but I can find a use for it), so you can see the difference

in size.  Both are tatted in size 40 Lizbeth threads.  The large one is Niagara Falls

and the small one is Boysenberry Dk.

 And this next picture shows the sizes compared to a Clover shuttle.

Hope your weekend is blessed with beautiful tatting and love!!!  :)

Size comparisons for Beaded Flowers and Starflowers in size 40

These top ones are the Beaded Flowers and they are the size of a 50 cent piece.

 And these below are the Beaded Starflowers and they are the size of a quarter.

And here are all of them together for an idea of size.  :)

Hope this is helpful.  

If you follow the written directions on the pattern, it's missing a picot and an 8 at the end of the ring, but there is a diagram, and as I said before, I changed the long outer chains to 8ds instead of 12 to make it look more like Corina's picture.

If you see the Beaded Flower in the top right of the top picture you will see what it looks like with the 12ds.  And all the starflowers are the same pattern just cut the stitch counts in half and only do five rings(oh, and only put 3 beads on top points of rings).

Hope this helps!!!  Pattern here:  

http://cmhandmade.blogspot.com.es/2013/07/pattern-for-beaded-flower.html

Have a great tatting day!!!  :)

Tatting accomplished over the weekend

Using up thread on mini beaded starflowers.

 Only 1/4 of this next round left on the snowman(I know....it's not a snowman yet-plenty of work to actually make a snowman--especially without snow).  :)

Oh, and today I started another doily.

Hope you had a wonderful weekend!!!  :)

Hope you have a wonderful week and get some tatting time!!!  :)

No more Kaleidoscope HDT left

I love this colorway and am so sad to say that I cannot get anymore!!!

I had so much fun tatting with it and there is none left.

I just had to make another tiny "beaded flower"-although I call it the beaded starflower, so now I have a pair which can be made into earrings for someone.  :)

I tatted those beaded flowers and had a little bit left so....I tatted this bookmark using Mary Konior's Chain Reaction edging pattern from Tatting with Visual Patterns(book), and call it my Chain Reaction bookmark.  I had to guess at how to make the end, and I think it turned out well.  It has a slight curve, but what you see here is just thrown on the scanner. 

As you can see with most of my tatting...sewing in ends gets put off till I feel like it(which isn't often).  

I hope your start to this new year has been tatfully wonderful!!! :)