Bell Hanger

Materials:

Two shuttles wound CTM. 

Identify shuttles as Shuttle 1 and Shuttle 2.  Shuttle 2 will always be RODS (reverse order double stitch, second half frist)

 

May add beads to use as earings.

Clover leaf:

SR 5-3/(p)5-3  CL R – make a picot between the first and second halves of the split ring.

Shuttle 1:  3+6-3 CL R

Shuttle 2 (RODS):  3+6-3

SR 3+3/3+3 CL R 

Center Motiff:

Shuttle 1:

R 3+6-3 CL R

R 3+10-3 CL R

R 3+6-3 CL R 

Shuttle 2:  (RODS)

3+6-3 CL R

3+10-3 CL R

3+6-3

 SR 3+3/3+3

 Shuttle 1:  3+6-3 CL R

Shuttle 2:  3+6-3 CL R

SR 3+5/3+5

Cut, tie and hide ends.

Tiny Angel

Hyperbolic Tatting key chains

I have a problem...  my keys fall to the bottom of my purse and get lost (despite trying to always put them in a pocket).  Does anyone else have that problem? And who wants to add something large and heavy to their purse. 

Solution - a hyperbolic tatted key chain made if bright durable thread. 

After several prototypes I settled on the two versions pictured below.  The orange and white starts with a chain attched to a ring.  The other is tatted on the ring.

The pattern for the chain version is almost complete and will be posted after it has been proof read by a friend.

Projects finally finished

I have been working on a few designs of my own which has been quite challenging.  There has been a lot of picking out, cutting out, UGHs, and total rethinking of what I had done.  One of the designs has not been completed yet, so it will have to wait for another time.  

These went through many versions and mistakes until I finally settled on this version.  I think I will be making quite a few of these as I have a number of friends you are very patriotic.  This pair, the original, belongs to my mother.

I think I posted another version of this with a black bag and a red lower.  The flower is my design using principals from ANKARS tatting.  The leaves are Scheif leaves using the pattern for Gerdes Butterfly posted on Georgia Seitz web pages.  This bag will be going to a dear friend named Cyndi.

Finally, Jane Eboral's Flamingo.  I could not find a verrigated pink and white tatting or crochet thread at the time I tatted the little guy, so I used three strands of DMC floss.  I think it worked out pretty well.  Since then I did find some pink and whit thread at Michael's craft store.  This little guy belongs to another Jane who is also very dear friend.

Well, that is all for now.  

Happy Tatting everyone!!

First design

This is my first real attempt at designing.  It took several days with a lot of picking out of stitches and throwing out of big mistakes.  It is to embelish a gift for a friend. She collects teapots and has teas for her church ladies regularly.  She is very "crafty".  The backs of her cross stitch work is as pretty as the fronts.  So it has to be just right.

 

 

A few of my projects

 

Christmas Coaster

 

I made a set of four as a hostess gift for our Thanksgiving hostess.  I did use size 10 thread so that it would be more absorbant.

I am going to modify the pattern a little to make as a doily for my daughter's wedding.  She likes size 10 thread best.  I will make it with both size 10 and 30 to see which I like best. 

 

Some Bookmarks

 

 

 

 

My Second Doily