JK Picot

I found the little button, added a picot to the JKs

 and suddenly had a pretty motif.  : )

I am considering adding a chain in the white with different blue beads around the existing chains, but I quite like the motif as it is. Tatted with #8 DMC Perle.

Another motif I have been working on is a Jan Stawasz pattern. I have now finished the first round and have begun the second. Tatted with #40 Lizbeth. So far:

No directional problems if I do not tat fs/bs and it does not seem to matter with the end result, which actually looks better than most of my previous tatting! Such a surprise...

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

I have been travelling and had little time to tat, but I have managed to border a lovely vintage hankie that I received from Kelly last year. ( Or was it the year before?!)

I was saving this little beauty for the right inspiration and I just loved Frivole’s Viola pattern for it. I picked an unlikely thread, that I have also been saving for just the right project:  HDT thread from Jess.

Of course, I ran out of thread - TWICE! So I had to improvise....TWICE!

Shopping in a funny, old-fashioned shop that sold everything from tatting shuttles to fishing supplies, I found two little mother-of pearl buttons and some #8 DMC Perle cotton. Of course I could not resist. (Plus three crochet hooks - #12, #14 and #13) Success in my favourite kind of store! I love surprises. ; )

The buttons have inspired me and this is as far s I have got on my own creation:

Imagine! Those are JK’s, with a picot at the top for the next row to join. Ah, sometimes I surprise myself!

Vibrant Viola

Viola Posy

Frivole’s patterns keep the shuttles flying... 

This pattern is very versatile... This is the motif part of the 4 pages. : )

More Mille-Fleurs

Frivole’s new pattern is marvellous, n’est-ce pas?

Front and Back

And a Viola Posy too! (also Frivole’s)

Jan Stawasz motif

I think this will look a lot better in one colour. But for the first go-around I am thrilled that I got through it with only one really bad error - a missed picot, which is all too obvious once you see it. Not a lot of un-tatting either in this... amazing!