Lace bookmark

My grandma got this tatted bookmark for Mother’s Day. The pattern was inspired by an edging from the book “Tatting Craft, My Book No. 3” (1900) by Anna Valerie. But it only the resembles the shape. i added several links and made it bicolored.

Occhi revers

Maybe you already wondered what tatting is good for. Well except from doilys and edgings here is an example:

I decorated the revers of my “old” bolero jacket with sewn-on tatted lace.

The big one with a bead I tatted on the needle. But when I tried to needle tat the small cloverlike piece I wasn’t able to close the last ring. So I switched to the shuttle and it worked quite good after I sorted all the threads.

Acorns for your ears

These cute little earrings were the result of my first try to integrate beads into tatting. Actually my initial plan didn’t work out but I like the result anyway.

They look like little acorns, don’t they?

Tatted triskelion

This was one of my first tries on tatting. Actually I wanted to recreate the pendant of this bookmark. But as you can see it turned out to be a triangle. Seems I miscalculated it dramatically.

The not-at-all-rectangluar angle I recognized at the second corner. That was when I decided to insert the triskelion in the middle.

For the second on in orange I left some knots to smoothen the edges.