Tea Pot Roses

Tea Pot Roses

    My parents gave me this beautiful tea pot with peach roses.

Tea and tatting seems to go together.  Time to have my tea and tat a little.

Matching

Matching

     Of course, Mom wanted matching earrings.  Gotta match!

 

Parents

Parents

   My wonderful parents came to visit me from Iowa.  My mom picked out a Tatsmithed pendent and wanted it on a chain.  Here's the finished product.

Exchange

Exchange

     This exchange was from Heather.   She sent me a fold-up scissors (never can have too many of them), rayon/metallic thread, beads and wet-wipes.

 

Tatting Shuttle Addicts

Tatting Shuttle Addicts

   This is a tatting group on Face Book.  Now I know why I don't have a chance to win, one of those unique shuttles on E-Bay!!  These guys get them all.  Nice group of people and lots of eye candy.  Can always afford that.  They had a tatting implement exchange.  This one is from Joyce, in New York.  She sent me a beautiful butterfly and thread in Lizbeth, 20, spring garden; scissor fob, and a shuttle decorated with fabric.
 

Roses

Roses

    Tried something different and used two strands of metallic red sewing thread on the outer rounds.  The pendent is  1 1/4" X 1 1/2".  I found the cabochon at an estate sale.  The were glued to clip-on earrings.

Gotta Match

Gotta Match

    These earrings, match, yesterdays post.  They are 3/4" in diameter.

Silvey Gold

Silvery Gold 

     This pendent was made with two strands of silver sewing thread and a gold cats-eye.  The pendent is 7/8" X 1 1/4".

 

For sale on West Pine Creations.

Earrings

Earrings 

    These earrings match, yesterdays post.  Made with two strands of silver sewing thread and blue-cats eyes.  They are 3/4" in diameter.  Hope your not getting bored with the Tatsmithing.  I can't stop making them.

 

Silvery Snowflake

Silvery Snowflake

    This pendent is another favorite.  Tatsmithing looks so elegant!  This one was made with two strands of silver sewing thread and a blue cats-eye.  The pendent is 1 3/8" in diameter.
 

For sale on West Pine Creations.

Copper Spring

Copper Spring

     This pendent is one of my favorites!!  It was made with two strands of copper sewing thread and green cats-eye.  Then pendent is 2" in diameter.
 

 

7 of 25 motif challenge.

 

Silver Green

Silvery Green

    A pendent made with two strands of silver sewing thread and green cats-eye.  The pendent is 3/4 X 1 1/4".
 

 For sale on West Pine Creations.

 

Matching

Matching

    A Matching pair of earrings to go with the Icy Necklace.  The earrings were made with two strands of metallic silver sewing thread on opalescent focal beads.  The earrings are 1 1/4" X 1 1/2".
 

 

Pocket Secretary

Pocket Secretary

      I needed something to put my stationary in.  The pattern is an old leather pattern.

 The Sandhollow Gems was my old name, when we lived out in Sand Hollow.

Present for Mom

Present for Mom

     I made this necklace to give to my mom on Mother's Day.  The pendent is 1.5 X 3" and the beaded chain is 16".

Spring Green

Spring Green Earrings

     This pair of earrings was Tatsmithed around a medium, green cats-eye cabochon.  The earrings are 1 1/8" X 5/8".  

 For Sale on West Pine Creations.

Purple Diamond

Purple Diamond

      In the mood to do some Tatsmithing.  The Purple Diamond was done with two strands of metallic gold sewing thread, around a focal bead.  The pendent is 2 X 3".

For Sale on West Pine Creations.

 

For My Aunt

For My Aunt

      My aunt has been placed in a nursing home, so my mom asked me to make her a cross to hang in her room.   This cross is called Christina,  from  Lene Bjorn's, "Tatted Bookmarks" book.  The cross was made with size 10 crochet thread and has a gold filament. The cross measures about 4 X 6".  The middle of the cross has a crystal heart, hanging from it. 

Slowly Working

Slowly Working

   
    Finished a batch a frog shuttles.  About 60 some to go.  These are made from Maple, Popular and Red Oak.
 

 

For Sale on West Pine Creations.

Designing

Designing

     Usually, I am able to get a new design to come out the first time.  Maybe, a little tweaking the second time.  BUT  4 TIMES!!!  I must be loosing it!  I'm not able to cope with failure in the art department.  I figured out the design wasn't coming out to my standards because I was using a tear drop bead instead of a bead with the hole through the center.  Finally, four tries later, and I obtained the design I was looking for.  
      The pendent was tatted with two strands of gold, metallic sewing thread, aroung a focal bead and a flattened bead for the drop.  

6 of 25 Motif Challenge. 

     

The Other Sister

The Other Sister

     This is the other purse, I made for my baby sister.  They both received them at the same time for Christmas (4 years ago).  This one was made with size 20 crochet thread.
 

 

Purse for My Sister

Purse for My Sister

        Was going through my pictures and found a few I haven't posted.  I designed this purse, for my sister, four years ago.  There was a matching hanky, but I forgot to take a picture of it.  The tatting was done in size 40 thread.

 
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