New beginner tatter

This little angel is 12 yr. old Priscilla.  She is a part of our little church group.  Last weekend we had our first church picnic and she was there.  She has had a bad family life and rarely ever smiles.  Well, this past weekend she smiled a lot!!!  She came home with us after the picnic and spent the night.  While she was here she was spoiled with swimming, candy and snacks, lots of attention and some gifts.  I have these beautiful earrings from Fox that I love, but cannot wear since I don't have pieced ears and don't wear earrings.  Well, this little angel saw them and loved them so much that I made them a gift to her.  As you can see she put them on and graciously allowed me to get a picture to share.  

 She received a few other tatted pieces of mine, and then asked if I would teach her to tat(let me tell you that it was 11:00pm on Saturday night and I had to be up early to get 10 lbs. of potatoes ready and mashed for our Sunday morning church meal-which follows our lesson).  So, we sat and she learned how to make a ring.  I let her take some thread and a shuttle home with her to practice and I can't wait to see this weekend how she has done.  :)           Below is a close up of one of the earrings.

Piney Woods Tatter Tat-along Round 2 done

Doing my best to make this turn out right.  While tatting the chains they wanted to do their own thing, but I think after straightening them and then putting them under a heavy book they should behave without too much problem.  :)   Oh, and since this is shuttle tatted I just kept drawing the ball thread through so that I didn't have to cut it, and I put the shuttle through each chain so that I could get the woven effect.

Piney Woods Tatter Tat-along Round 1 done

I have round 1 done.

http://pineywoodstatter.blogspot.com/2013/07/plain-jane-round-one.html

Joining Piney Woods Tatter Tat-Along

Rachel at Piney Woods Tatter>  http://pineywoodstatter.blogspot.com/2013/07/plain-jane-beginning.html 

 is having a Tat-Along this week and I just had to try.

Here is what I have so far(pretend it's pretty cuz' I know better, but I will try to improve it!!!).

This is tatted in size 10 Lizbeth Latte Foam.  And it is shuttle tatted with interlocking SCMRs.

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.

More large dream catcher earrings

Here are the 2 pair of dream catcher earrings I did yesterday and today.  I did the blue first and the green second.  The blue are in size 40 Lizbeth Peacock Blues and the green are in size 40 Yarnplayer's HDT Celery.  Notice??  Different color feather charms.  I picked the colors which seemed to go best with each color.

Lime Green Med. & Juicy Watermelon Suncatcher for me. :)

This suncatcher is about 4 inches across.  I wanted to make it with Lizbeth Lime Green Med. & Juicy Watermelon(both size 40) since I thought they would go nice together.  It needs a little shaping, but since I started it months ago and just finished it last night I wanted to show it.  :)

The pattern is  the Small Round #11 from the Ultimate Book of Tatted Doilies.