Queen of Hearts

This is Queen of Hearts from Teri Dusenbury's book, Tatting Hearts. It's not my best work.

Jane's Bookmark Hat

I was making Jane's bookmark with Lizbeth Ocean Sunset, and was really enjoying the pattern. So I kept going until I had a piece long enough for a cap. Hence, a Jane's bookmark cap.

Yet another bookmark

Jane's Bookmark

This bookmark was named for Jane Eborall and Jane McLellan. It's an adaption and modernization of a braid pattern from Anna Burda. I really enjoyed making the pattern. I've already started another one. The tail is all split rings and a little medallion.

Dragonfly

This little guy is from the book The Gentle Art of Tatting Things We Love, by Patricia Ann Rizzo.

Black and gold Spiral bookmark

I'm still enjoying making these. So many colors, so little time. I tried an onion ring on the flower. Not my best work. Oh well, I know now what Jane hates them.

More Spiral Bookmarks

Here are three more spiral bookmarks. I'm still having fun with them. The black and white one is particularly different. On the clovers, I added a tiny picot so I could attach them along the sides. That made them stay in their places better. And on the tail I did a spiral. It's just one half of the stitch for the whole way.

Spiral bookmarks after stiffining

There, that looks a little better.

Spiral Bookmarks

These aren't stiffened yet. I hope to do that right away and then I hope they dry in time to take to Farmers Market this afternoon. They have been adapted from edging #1, page 23 in Tatting Doilies and Edgings, Dover Press, edited by Rita Weiss. I've enjoyed making them and plan to make more with some of my new Lizbeth.

Silver Plated shuttle

This is my latest addition to my shuttle family. My hubby and I were at a museum at Fort Steele, British Columbia. There are several buildings, and some of them had things for sale. My hubby spotted this brass, silver plated shuttle. Now here is the odd part. On the other side of it was a metal loop for putting it on a chain. The lady who was manning that part of the museum was very interested in learning to tat. So I opened the package and she handed me some thread and I gave her a demo. Unfortunately, it was a very awkward demo, as the loop was keeping it from sliding nicely. Some snipping and sanding and it was free of that bit. I bought it mostly because it looks so nice. I prefer bobbin shuttles, but I will use it some.

Sea Horse Table runner

My aqua size instructor likes my Sea Horses. She bought two and incorporated them onto a table runner as a birthday gift for her mother.

Girlie Girl butterfly

Here's a butterfly made with black and Lizbeth Girly Girl.

Big Doily

I made this about 12 years ago, when I first learned to tat. It was a Christmas present for my mother-in-law. When she passed away, in 2008, I got it back. Recently, I cleaned it and went to work and pushed out all the picots in the rings. What a job.

Another Butterfly

I saw where Janet Smith had made a blue butterfly. I liked it a lot, so I made one too. I'm going to try something different with the head on the next one.

Christmas Hearts butterfly

I made another butterfly using Anne Bruvold's Christmas heart. This time, I didn't put any picots on the center section, except where I wanted to attach it. Next time, I think I will put picots at the bottom, center part. I've already started another one. But, another time, I'd like to extend the top, far corners of the wings, a little. It had been awhile since I'd done one of these, and I struggled with the SCMR in the first two. Not so much the SCMR, but how I was going to attach the little ring that extents from the SCMR, to the Rc picot. Finally, got it right on the third heart.

Romantic Heart

This Heart was designed by Birgit and Beelizabeth wrote the pattern. There are some errors in the pattern, but they can be detected as long as a person watches the picture. I did make one mistake. But, I accomplished a split chain and a split ring.

Split chain

Jane gave me this site to learn the split chain. It is the best. I've watched it several times and my first tries were a little messy. But you soon learn that you want to keep the ds over to the left. And you leave the first half a little loose. Then you pull the second half to tighten the first then pull the shuttle to tighten the second half.
The next row is going to be a heart. I'll show it again when I'm finished.
Here's the site for Maire's instruction on the easiest way to do split chains.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx5AMqmPxoA

My Latest Cap

Here's my latest addition to the cap collection.

Tea Pot

I made this for my mother's Mother's Day card. Now I hope it makes it on time.

A Little Motif

I sent a pic of this to Handy Hands. I think it would be nice in a variegated thread.