5 Heritage Crosses

I finished my order of 5 crosses.  She like the Heritage cross and I am hoping she will be pleased with these. I am bringing them to her tomorrow.  :)

All tatted in size 40.  

First: Lizbeth Girly Girl, second: Lizbeth Purple Iris Fusion, third: Lizbeth Scottish Thistle, 

fourth: Yarnplayer's HDT Celery(my favorite-yet my favorite color is blue), fifth: Lizbeth Peacock Blues.

Necklace finished and modeled by my daughter. :)

Here is the necklace I made(  http://hiskid66.blogspot.com/2013/02/tatted-necklace.html    ), finally finished and able to be worn.  My daughter agreed to be the model for it. :)

 Here is a close-up.

Here it is on the stand.

3 Tatted Crosses

I received an order Sunday while at church from a lady who wants 5 tatted crosses to give her children for Easter.  She says she has a tatted cross from her great-grandmother and cherishes it and wants her children to have some.  She wants them about 5 inches with tassels.  So, I started with one of the boys(request-1 blue and 1 green), the blue one is last in this picture even though it was tatted first.  It's Mary Konior's Large Cross from Tatting with Visual Patterns.  It's tatted in LadyShuttlemaker's HDT  Helms Deep size 50, and is 5 inches long.  Next, I started on a girls(request-1 pink, 1 purple, 1 lavender-not solids).  I decided to make a cross I haven't made before from one of my newest books-Tatted Bookmarks Needle & Shuttle edited by Barbara Foster Handy Hands, Inc. This is the Heritage Cross by Dee Powell.  First I tatted it in size 40 Lizbeth Girly Girl(center cross) which ended up being about 3 1/2 inches long, next I tatted it in size 20(which the pattern calls for)HDT Sacred Lotus from Crochet4U2Dye4 and it ended up only 4 inches long.  Well, now I have 2 crosses for future needs or young girls, and I have 4 crosses still to work on.

Also, I am still working on the doily which I had thought would go much quicker and would have been done a couple weeks ago and isn't.  I thought it would be a nice give-away "prize", but my husband has claimed it!

This weekend I won't get any tatting done(as far as I can tell) because our 4 & 8 year old granddaughters are coming to stay and play.  The oldest has asked me if she could learn to tat cuz' "she wants to do it when she gets older"(quite neat since she doesn't get to see me very often!!).  :)

If there are any tatting lessons this weekend, I will do my best to get pictures and share them with you all.  :)

Tatted Necklace

Tatted this a couple of days ago, but was hoping to get the chain to finish it before showing it.  Well...a snowstorm prevented going out and purchasing the chain, so...here is what I have.  :)

This is Yarnplayer's Ripple necklace:link here- 

 http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/3709543/ripple-tatted-necklace-pdf-march-22-2012-4-22-pm-808k?da=y

It's a very easy pattern, and I was able to complete it even with an alteration in about 2- 2 1/2 hours.  :)

It's tatted in size 10 Cheryl's HDT.  I made a slight alteration to be able to add the stone at the bottom.  It's from Fox from the give-away package I received.  :)

The thread colors and the stone went so well together that I just had to find something to make with them.  

2013 25 Motif Challenge # 1

I just had to tat this cute little Sea Turtle!!!  He is so adorable!!!  

From Jane Eborall's pattern here:  http://janeeborall.freeservers.com/SwanTurtle.pdf 

And he is tatted in size 40 Coral Reef HDT from Tatskool.

He is so small he is about the size of my fingerprint.  :)

Winner of Fox's moving give-away

Saturday I got a most awesome surprise in the mail(yes, I was expecting it, but I wasn't sure when it would be here).  I won Fox's moving give-away and received this awesome package of goodies.

There are two tatting books(one has cluny tatting which I have said I want to learn-since last year), and the other has wonderful patterns too.  There are 2 shuttles, buttons and doodads, thread, earring hooks, 3 beautifully tatted pieces!!!!, one brooch pin(looking for tatting-I have the perfect thread for and a possible inspiration), and a GORGEOUS pair of tatted earrings!!!!(sad news, I don't have pierced ears, so they will be a lovely gift for either my daughter or mother-in-law-although, I have toyed with the idea of making something for me with them***hmmm...time will tell)  :)

These next two pictures are for Diane(Lace Lovin' Librarian) First is all the snow you were missin'.....

 Second is what it looked like yesterday, and...from tonight till Friday they are expecting 6-10 inches of new snow.  I wish it would decide to be winter or spring and quit making me crazy!!!  :)  

Maybe I will have some more snow pictures soon.

Continued tatting

I am so glad to have snow!!!!!  It has kept me from having to go out and to do other things, allowing me to stay inside and get some tatting done.

Still working on the doily(now doilies) that I was telling you about.  I am hoping to get it finished by next weekend(third time I have said this).  I am real thankful for the progress made!!!  Snow and frigid temps with windchills from -5 to -20 are keeping others from asking me to go out.  :)

Love how the thread sticks to the new microfiber mat making it like blocking.  :)