Friday, December 12, 2008

Gift Ornaments Three and Four

These two ornaments are both made from my first ornament pattern (well, the first one I ever wrote down, anyway). The green and red one is made with red DMC size 80 tatting cotton on one shuttle and machine embroidery thread in a variegated mix of bright colors backed with white sewing cotton on the other shuttle. There are red seed beads scattered around at the picot joins, and it's pinned to the ornament with gold pins. I was concerned about the variety of colors with the red, but decided it looked really good and made the cut to to be sent off as a gift. The blue one is covered with Signature machine embroidery thread in shades of blue backed with white sewing cotton. I know it looks yellow, but it's not. I'm just not much of a photographer. There are silver beads at the picot joins on this one, so I used silver pins through a silver bead to fasten it to the ornament.

5 comments:

Bonnie said...

They are beautiful! Earlier I was looking for patterns such as this, but was unsuccessful. Have you thought of putting together a book of your beautiful designs???? Sign me up for a copy.

Tattycat said...

Absolutely beautiful Marty!

Lace-lovin' Librarian ~ Diane said...

These are really beautiful, Marty! I'm sure these gifts will be treasured for years to come!

Unknown said...

Marty, your ornaments are beautiful!

Tat-a-Renda said...

Marty, another beautiful and creative application of tatting. You are so clever.