Tatted Angels

The tatted angel in purple is a free pattern from Martha Ess', Tats Amore.
http://my.att.net/p/s/community.dll?ep=87&subpageid=259211&ck=
It is easy to work up if you know split chains!
I watched Linda Davis's video and it helped. Thank goodness there was only one SC.


The white tatted angel is from mark Myers book, "Tatted Gathering of Angels". I wanted a larger angel so it was tatted with DMC size 10 thread. The head and body are SCMR (self closing mock ring) I added some gold thread for the halo and a red star. This works up very quickly!






These angels are made with felt with tatting added for the halo, edging around skirt and the heart in the center.

A special card for a special friend

Christmas Cracker

Christmas Crackers is an English Custom. It is a tube filled with goodies and then wrapped. The Crazy Quilting International group has been doing this for the past few years and this is my first time. Oh what fun it is to find threads, needles, material, candy and on and on till it is packed and overflows with gifts wrapped on the side! The wrapper is a crazy quilt patch and it is up to you to add the stitches. I stitched a lot of stitches with silk ribbon embroidery and added 2 pieces of tatting, however, I do not know the person who designed the heart. I usually make a bunch of hearts and put them in a box to send or add to CQ later.

On the left upper corner, the tatting is 1/2 of the pattern "Angels in the Snow" by Miranda. A charm was attached in the center and reads "DREAM BIG"!!

Miranda's blog-- http://tattingfool.blogspot.com had a contest last year to name the pattern she designed and I won. There were over 40 entries and all had good names. For me it just looked like "Angels" we made in the snow when we were children. My prize from Miranda was a beautiful tatting book by Catherine Austin, "A New Twist on Tatting", thread, the pattern and the best of all was a tatted "Angels in the Snow"! Just gorgeous and will treasure it always. Miranda is very generous in giving. The pattern can be found on her website and she is selling it for $3.00. All the proceeds will go to the Brain Injury Assoc of New Mexico. Please go to her website for more information and lots of "Eye Candy"!! I am waiting for my cracker to arrive.

Happy Thanksgiving!

This big tom is made out of felt. His frilly tail feathers are tatted with Lizbeth's Falling Leaves size #20. The pattern is from Mary Konior's "Tatting with Visual Patterns". It is Curds and Whey but only used one side of the pattern.

Here are the snowflakes used in the Christmas Tree Skirt. All of the snowflakes are tatted with #20 Lizbeth white thread.

These 2 are from "Festive Snowflakes & Ornaments" edited by Barbara Foster.

The top one is Snowflake 4 and

the bottom is Snowflake 6.

These 4 are the main ones because they tat up very quickly.

The top left is Randy Houtz Motif 2 in his book, "Tatting the Self-Closing Mock Ring for GR-8 Design". This motif is rings and chains.

The top right is from the Needle tatting group, Roger aka Freedman. Rings and chains with lots of picots. I like this one because it is small and frilly like a snowflake and easy.

The bottom left is a split ring clover snowflake. Also works up quickly if you know the split ring. This design is from Wendy Durell.

Bottom right is a quick and easy with lots of Picots.

The pattern is by Carol Winandy.

The finished tree skirt. I had 5 ladies critique it and was going to add ribbon to separate the red and green. They all said NO! So I just bound the edges with the ribbon. I will tat a few more snowflakes and put over the seams. Right now it has 32 snowflakes. It is on display at the local library.

Houston Quilt Show

HOUSTON QUILT SHOW

Here are my favorite two but there are so many beautiful quilts. I met one of the judges a month ago and she said they were all stunning and hard to judge. Being at the show would be just awesome and pictures to not show all the detail.

In the Hoffman Challenge, Ann Faustino of NJ won first place in "Butterfly Dance".













The second one I really liked is "Sunset and Sandhill Cranes" by Joanne Baeth of Oregon. This was sponsored by Accu Quilt.

Click on the URL and enjoy the quilt show!!

http://www.quilts.org/winners.html

Christmas Tree Skrit

One tree skirt is almost completed. Need to sew one more panel with snowflakes and then sew them all together. I will put a lining on the back and attached it with ribbons separating each panel. I need an exhibit for the Library, so I am working extra long to finish this skirt for the weekend.