Halloween Owl

Nancy Tracy, http://www.be-stitched.com/, has a new pattern the tatted owl. Fun project and works up quickly.

Hobby Lobby has nice glass balls to decorate with. I added some paints and swirl it around. It takes time because the paint moves slowly. Then tat a crown for the top. The pattern comes from an old Handy Hands Newsletter. Works up quickly and fits very nice.



Double Wedding Ring Quilt

My niece will be getting married next year at the Round Barn in Waitsfield, VT. I am making her a Double Wedding Ring Quilt using John Flynn's strip piece method. My machine died so need to get it fix, in the mean time I am using my 1978 Bernina. It sews fine but don't want to do heavy sewing. I hope to hand quilt it if there is time and maybe she just might have to wait.

Tatted Earrings

Kitty, Kitty was a drop off a few months ago. We noticed her living with the chickens. Great mouser, have not seen any mice yet!! She sleeps with the chickens where it is warm at night , during the day she perches on top so she can see where the dogs are. DH has Kitty feeding out of his hands but Kitty has her limits, "please do not pick me up"!!!   Loves to be petted.

Helping Hands Newsletter, Fall 2011, has a very easy earrings to tat by Kendra Goodnow. These will make wonderful gifts for the holidays.  I added 5 beads instead of the P for the center.

 Here is an easy way to add the beads. Add the beads to a needle threader, insert the thread, pull beads off of threader on to the thread,  and wa lah...

 wind a yard on to a shuttle, do not cut the thread from the ball. (CTM)

Ready to Tat the 5 rings and chains.



Glass Mat and Sun Catcher

The name of this small doily is Glass Mat adapted by Kendra Goodnow from Semco Book. The pattern can be found in Helping Hands Newsletter Winter 2011. Although it is an easy pattern one must mark where you are as it can become confusing at times. It won a blue ribbon at the County Fair. I used Lizbeth 20 Juicy Watermelon (156) and Azalea Medium (620.

My dear friend Ruby mailed me some 3" brass rings. I could not find them at Hobby Lobby in TX.

Summer Daisy Tatted Sun Catcher by Nancy Tracy, http://www.be-stitched.com/, fits right into the brass rings. The blue is #30 Omega and the unframed is worked up using Tropical Punch (132) size 40.

This is an easy pattern!  Thanks Ruby (:



Tatting Motifs



Maple Leaf pattern by Tammy Rogers. Tatted with Lizbeth 100-Falling leaves in size 20. 
 Humming bird pattern by Heather Johnson. One of them got into a fight and has a wonky beak!!
Tatted with Lizbeth 137 Berry Burst in size 20.

Snowflake 2 pattern by Roger aka Freedman. It is a very easy pattern worked up in two rounds. The outside are chains with a small ring at the tip. The tread is  Lizbeth snow white size 20. The pink heart is by Patti Duff, tatted with Lizbeth 145- Pink Parade size 40. The humming bird is a pattern by Karey Solomon worked up in a SCMR. It is one of my favorite bird pattern to tat up along with the Lizbeth 20 - 156 Watermelon. Jon's dragonfly also works up very quickly and nice to add in lots of projects.

These are for gifts and exchanges.

Sun Catcher

Here is a sun catcher tatted up with Lizbeth 156 Watermelon. The pattern is by Nancy Tracy and very easy to work up. I added a few glass beads in the center but did not read the pattern and there is an odd number of picots. So the last two picots have no beads and decided to put them at the top to balance it out. A designer touch!  Nancy used a 3 inch ring and I used a 4 inch ring. In order for the tatting to be attached I tatted another row of chains with about 8 picots per chain section and that worked out. The tatting was attached with invisible thread and a bell at the bottom. It is very pretty in a window.

Tatting Exchange

Rose Anne Burdeny from Winnipeg, Canada tatted the bell and Christmas wreath. Rose Anne was my tatting exchange person in the Needles and Shuttles Yahoo Tatting Group.  The bell is the perfect size as I like small motifs and the wreath is just stunning with all the beads.  Very nice tatting and THANK YOU Rose Anne!!!!!

Here is the card Rose Anne sent along with the tatting.  When I opened the envelope I said ...WOW!!!  The Crazy Quilting group has a new round robin and it is all about sewing... Just think of the possibilities one could do with this card!!!