This week I have been so tire!!!  May be is the heat of the coming Summer.  The heart is starting to do his little skips and that's so annoying.  Don't worry, I'm taking medicines and vitamins for that.  So I spend most of the day sitting still, in front of a fan, tatting small things and taking plenty of rest and liquid.  You know the big plastic glasses that "Wendy's" gives you when you ask for a biggie size soda?  I'm filling on of those 3 times with ice water and one or two times with ice tea per day!

Anyway...  I received Martha Ess books (I had and love the 1st one)  this week and I'm having a fun time tatting hearts and little block motifs.  The hearts are from the book "Tat's Amore" and the angels are from "Holidays on the Block".  The angel on the right still need its halo.  I don't remember where I save the gold thread.  Will have to "dive" inside the closet to see where it's hiding.  lol

I made everything using Altin Basak #10 white and white/gold.  I was surprise that the white with the gold filament worked pretty well and the filament didn't break when making rings.  I have used filaments with thinner threads and usually the rings are a nightmare!  The filament breaks and/or bunch up when closing a ring.  So I mostly use this threads for chains only.  I will use this one more often.    I have another ball white/silver.  Each ball is 1000 grams, so I'll be tatting with it for a LONNNNNNNNG time.  lol

I'll use these to make some greeting cards and suncatchers/ornaments for some friends.

Monday I couldn't enter to the chatroom of the Tatting Class but I went to the side and made my home work.  This heart was designed by Sue Hanson and she kindly shared the pattern with the class.  It's a heart with 3 blocks.  You can find the pattern here.

I made some mistakes but nothing big that affect the design.  Just that I got a little confuse with the directions of the chains (what looks like stems under the 2 white rings).  The curve of them should be to the other side of what I did.


I used "El Beida"  (Egyptian perle #8) in burgandy and Miquita (Peruvian mercericed #20) in white.  I love the color combination and the pattern is so cool.

This lovely heart is a design by Teresa Wood and she kindly shared it with the Online Tatting Class on Monday.  This semester the main topic will be Block Tatting.  You can find the information about how to make this technique here.  The pattern of the heart can be found at the Class site and on Teresa's blog.  The long threads I left them so mom can sew it to a bag or shirt.



In combination with the heart I made mom's name using Teri Dusenbury's pattern of the alphabet with a butterfly.  I also left long ends so it's easier to sew but I did a little of PSP and erased the ends.    Just for fun.  lol  They're n ot very big, under 2 inches each one.


The thread is El Beida #12 is a very bright pink, almost fushia.

This is a heart pattern by Susan Taliaferro and uses only one shuttle.  It's cute and also easy to do.  Took me like 15 minutes because I was watching TV and playing Scrabulous with my sister.  I know...  Crazy doing 3 things at the same time.  The thread is also Miquita in a periwinkle blue.  Miquita is a Peruvian thread roughly size #20 and is a soft mercerized cotton.

The pattern for this heart can be found here.

I joined a heart exchange and I made this one for my partner. I won't say who is she so it'll still be a surprise! The pattern is one of my originals. It's will be in a book, eventually. But in this one I made a little variation. Wanna guess? Look at the flowers' center... Yep, that's right! Daisy Picot centers! LOL Can you see an obsession here?

I left almost a yard of thread at the ends so if my partner wants to sew the heart she can use those ends. If not, then she can cut them. Hopefully (inshallah) I'll put it on the mail tomorrow after I buy a postcard from Alex. Also tomorrow I'll go with a friend to visit another. One of the ladies that came to visit me last time is coming to take me to the other one's home. Am I making sense? Geesh! I need more coffee! Anyway, the heart will fly tomorrow!

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. NeedleDreams' Blog 2005 Online blog with photos taken by me. Tatting pattern of my desings and photos of my laces Waleska Sosa Wally Sosa

Materials:
2 Shuttles
2 colors of threads

Instructions:

This pattern use Maltese Rings. To make the maltese rings you need to join both shuttles if using 2 colors. Start a regular ring and make 1 ds. Pass the working shuttle thru the ring loop (front to back) and take out the loop from your fingers. The ball or 2nd shuttle will be in the back of your hand. Make a ds using the 2nd shuttle, the same as if you're making a chain. Pass again the working shuttle thru the ring's loop (back to front), place the loop in your fingers and make a picot. Take out the loop of your hand, pass the shuttle and make a longer picot with shuttle 2. Keep doing the same until you have the amount of picots you want. Finish with a picot made with the 2nd shuttle and close the ring.

Start the heart making a maltese ring of 9 inner picots and 9 outer picots. (9 : 9)

Ch: 5.

Maltese ring of 9 : 9.

Ch: 5.

Maltese ring of 9 : 9. Reverse work.

Ch: 8 - 10 (- 1 --- 1 - 10) x 4 times. Reverse work.

R: 5 + (to the 4th outer picot of middle maltese ring) 5. Reverse work.

Ch: 1 - 1 --- 1 - 10

TOR: 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1.

Ch: 10 - 1 --- 1 - 1. Reverse work.

R: 5 + ( to the 5th outer picot of middle maltese ring) 5. Reverse work.

Ch: (10 - 1 --- 1 - 10) x 4 times. Join to the 1st picot. 8. Join to the base of the 1st maltese ring.

Cut and hide ends.

Materials:
Shuttle
Thread size #30

Abbreviations:
ds= double stitch
p= picot
vsp= very small picot
R= ring
Ch= chain
RW= reverse work
Cl= close

Instructions:

With Shuttle and ball.

R: 5 ds, p, 5ds, p, 5ds, p, 5 ds, vsp, 5ds. Cl. RW.
Ch: 6 ds. No RW. Make a shoelace tie.
*R: 3ds, p, 3ds, p, 3ds, p, 3ds. Cl. No RW. Make a shoelace tie.
Ch: 6 ds, p, 6 ds, join to vsm of first ring, 6ds. RW.
R: 3ds, p, 3ds, p, 3ds, p, 3ds. Cl. No RW. Make a shoelace tie.
Ch: 6 ds, p, 6 ds, join to chain's picot, 6 ds, p, 6 ds, join to 1st picot of small ring, 6 ds. RW.
R: 3ds, p, 3ds, p, 3ds, p, 3ds. Cl. No RW. Make a shoelace tie.*

Continue pattern from * to * until you have 3 rings in one side of the heart and 4 rings in the other side. You'll have 7 mesh spaces of 6 ds, p, 6 ds.

Finishing with the 4th ring round, join the last chain to the picot of the small ring. Make a lock join or a shoelace tie and RW.

Ch: Make 10 picots separated by 5 ds. RW.

Clover:
R: 6 picots separated by 3 ds. Cl.
R: 3 ds, join to last picot of ring, make 3 picots separated by 3 ds, skip 1 picot and join to the 2nd picot of the last chain round, 3 ds, 4 picots separated by 3 ds. Cl.
R: 3 ds, join to last picot of previous ring, 5 picots separated by 3 ds. Cl. RW.

Ch: 6 picots separated by 5 ds, skip 1 picot of the chain round and join to the next one, 6 picots separated by 5 ds.

Repeat Clover.

Ch: Make 10 picots separated by 5 ds. Join to the last picot of the small ring. Cut and tie.