Christmas Delight ~ Doodad Snowflake #4

I think this one is my favorite so far!

Christmas Delight ~ Doodad Snowflake #3

I could have finished this last night, but I ran out of thread. I didn't want to disrupt the flow of the colors, so I rewound my shuttles and started over. I'm glad I did!

I have three new snowflakes for my Christmas tree, and I'm sure there will be several more. I wonder where this doodad madness will lead me?

Doodad Double Dare #8!

Wanda at Wanda's Knotty Thoughts has finished her Doodad Double Dare! She was very brave and added seed beads. You'll just have to go take a look.

Thanks for joining in the fun, Wanda!

By the way, in case you're wondering why I don't just re-post the pictures... I'm hoping to introduce you to blogs that may not be familiar to you. It's so much fun finding a new tatting friend and discovering all of the treasures hidden on the Internet!

Christmas Delight ~ Doodad Snowflake #2

This looks much more like a snowflake to me, and it was great fun to tat! I'm beginning to feel like a designer! ;-)

For those of you with inquiring minds, the doodads are from Fire Mountain Gems. This particular doodad is listed as a 6 petal flower, pewter component, stock #H20-9117FY. The cost is $4.31 for a package of 50, which works out to about 9 cents each. Not bad to my way of thinking!

By the way, I'm not really into pattern writing. Please feel free to enlarge the pictures and trying out the ones I have doodled. On this one, the rings attached to the flower are 4-4-4-4. Each chain is 8 ds. The thrown off rings are 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2... for those of you who don't like to count dashes, that's 8 picots separated by 2 ds.

Whew! That was tough! I wonder if I have enough energy left to doodle another doodad snowflake tonight?

Doodad Snowflake

I'm not quite sure it looks like a snowflake, but it does have six rings... so, it's a snowflake! I used size 20 Lizbeth, Christmas Delight #116. As I was tatting, I kept thinking of different variations. Maybe I have my Christmas ornament of the year chosen!

Just plain stubborn!

Yup, that's me! Yesterday I tatted the last ring of this pretty little motif, Toshti, designed by Jon and named by Fox. When I finished the ring, I realized that I had joined it to the wrong picot. I tried to retro-tat, and I managed to tighten one of the knots tighter than I had ever done before... not a good thing!

I spent hours trying to get that knot out... at least three hours yesterday, and at least an hour today. Finally, I decided to take the scissors and snip the darned thing out. After all, I could have re-tatted the whole motif in that time!

I very carefully tatted and joined the last ring, and to my dismay, I realized that I never needed the ring in the first place! I had forgotten to join the last clover to the correct ring. I took out the last ring and just did a little sewing to join at the forgotten spot. I did consider retro-tatting to fix the join properly, but I had already spent way too much time in this one spot. You'd better believe, I won't be making that mistake again!

By the way, this is size 40 Lizbeth, Niagara Falls #158. The finished size is about 3 1/4" square.

Doodad Double Dare #7!

Lady Picot finished her Doodad Double Dare in a way I never thought of, and it looks spectacular! You're just going to have to hop on over to her blog to see what she's done!

I've started on another doodad, goldtone this time, using size 40 Lizbeth #158, Niagara Falls. Isn't the color pretty? I'm working Jon's new design again. This time I will be joining it in the correct spot!