Cluny bookmark

I have completed a cluny bookmark designed by Georgia Seitz. I used #20, color 125 LizBeth thread. This thread is larger than I normally use and it felt akward in my hands especially when doing the clunies. I'll give it a try in a smaller thread sometime. I feel that I still have a long way to go before I'm both comfortable making clunies and getting them to look symmetrical, one to another.

Misc. Bookmarks

These are misc. bookmarks tatted while I was traveling this summer.

Tatted bookmark

I have been busy with both tatting and quilting but my blog has not been a priority the past 2 or 3 months. When you read the entries for Sept. 2010, you'll see what I've been so busy doing.

In July, our family had a family reunion. I made a bookmark like this one for each of the 3 members of the planning committee. I failed to get a photo of all of them prior to giving them away. They were all this pattern but were done in different colors. The bookmarks were much appreciated. The pattern for this bookmark is one from Lenore English.

Flower bookmark and Heart bookmark

I made this flower bookmark for Allie for her July birthday. The pattern is Jane Eborall's Flowery SCMR Bookmark. I used the following threads: Coats & Clark, size 70, color 169 and DMC, size 80, color 701. Even though I've made this before, it still took some attention to the pattern when I started it because it had been awhile since I'd done SCMR's. Once I got the first flower done, it went easily. I liked the way the thread formed yellow and lavender flowers, even though it was all one thread. Sometimes I get lovely surprises that would have been hard to plan for.

The next photo shows the anniversary heart made for my friend Pam. She and her husband are celebrating 45 years of marriage this summer. I knew that 40 years was Ruby and 50 is Golden but I didn't know a color for 45. From the internet I found that 45 was Red Sapphire. Now I had a problem as all I could find out about red sapphire was that it was ruby. So what to do? I chose a red (DMC size 8, color 321 and then planned the placement of 45 seed beads (#408B from Bead Republic ). The heart pattern is "Small Tatted Heart" designed by Betsy Evans (1998 copyright). The chain is composed of split rings followed by a cloverleaf.

As you can see, I've been doing quite a lot of tatting recently. This isn't all but I don't have photos of other items. I'll post them soon.

cross bookmark

This is a little cross I made for my friend Pam. It's made from a varigated size 80 DMC thread, color 58. The pattern is one designed by Rebecca in 2006. This is an easy pattern to make and I like the little rings at the outside edges.

Connected Hearts Bookmarks

I made these little paper clips last week and gave them to my Bible study group. We were finishing a series of lessons and we were talking about our connection with one another. These little connected hearts (pattern: Hearts Entwined by Ellen Lai, May 2008) were perfect to remind us of our connection with one another and also of our need to be connected to God.
These were made with size 50 thread. Larger thread would have made the hearts larger but I was using up thread already on shuttles. That's what's so nice about these little projects. They're a great way to empty shuttles and make something useful at the same time.

birthday bookmark

I just completed this bookmark for a friend's birthday. It is tatted from size 70 tatting cotton. The pattern is in Simple Angel Lesson Series by Sabina Carden-Madden. I've made this bookmark a couple times before but in a larger thread. Using the size 70 was a bit more challenging. This measured appoximately 1" x 6". Clicking on the photo will produce a larger image and allow you to get a closer more detailed view.

Bookmark with woven picots

The threads for this bookmark are size 8 perle cotton. The pattern is Marrie Stoffer's. The size of this bookmark is 1.25" x 6".

This was my first venture in using woven picots and I'm pleased with the result. Ordinarily I prefer to tat without a picot gauge as I can get my picots reasonably close in size and using a gauge slows me down. For this project, however, I did use a picot gauge and I found it very helpful as these were very long picots.

Tatted bookmark

I'm participating in a tatted bookmark exchange. Here is the bookmark that I made for Katia. It is made with Clark's size 30 threads. Both the green and the yellow threads are varigated. The pattern is Jane Eborall's Flowery SCMR Bookmark. It is approx. 1.5" x 7" plus tassel.