Small cross

This cross measures 15cm from top to bottom, so it's not really small at all... But it is the smallest of the two crosses in Mary Konior's Tatting with Visual Patterns :)

Made with Lizbeth 20 in "Vineyard Harvest" and Puppets/Eldorado (still not sure which is the brand name and which is the thread) in black. The cross has not been blocked/pressed yet, so the ends of the arms curl up a little. That's probably because I changed the stitch count on the last round because the black thread doesn't match the Lizbeth 100%... I did the final chain round in black because I thought it would look sort of like a stained glass window, which I am a big fan of. When I grow up and build my own house, I want lots of those windows :)

Playing with buttons

I love buttons! I have lots and lots, both plain and fancy buttons :) This is just a fraction of my collection, I have more stashed away somewhere where I can't find them right now... I have sorted them more or less by size, but from now on I will have to sort my collection by how many holes they have! I found surprisingly few with four holes... Need to go shopping, hehe. Hmm, I wonder if I can find buttons with three or six holes? They would be perfect for snowflakes!

A while ago I found this cute cross in someone's picture album on InTatters, and when I left a comment I got the link to the person's pattern. But now I can't for the life of me remember who it was! Anyone know her username?

I'm not entirely happy with the color combination of this one (don't really like yellow), but my boyfriend thought it was very fancy, and snatched it away from me as soon as the ends were secured. I think he uses it as a bookmark somewhere :) The thread is Maxi (size 10). Inspired by the button cross I made this a few days ago:

I wanted to make it square (with eight spikes), but I ran out of shuttle thread and decided to skip a few spikes and make a triangular pendant instead. I think it works :) However, here is how I meant it to look:

I'm considering writing out the patterns... Would you want them? :)

Finally I've spent a few days making up this neat little tree:

You can find the pattern HERE. The colors are very pale because I don't have a great color selection in my stash; most of my threads are different sizes and can't be used together... Made with beige/brown DMC perle cotton (I think - the label is missing) and green Opera from Coats, both size 20. The big button is 2cm across and the small buttons are 1cm. This is the most complicated thing I've made so far. I made an extra branch because I thought it would become weird if I didn't, but I guess I should have "trusted" the pattern :p From top to bottom the tree measures 10.5 centimeters.

I am a thief...

I'm almost afraid to say it, but I've stolen a pattern! About a week ago I was blog surfing and I found the celtic cross in this post. There are pictures of how the cross is made up, and I thought I'd try to make it for myself. I didn't count the stitches or anything, I just tried. What I made was this:

Not too bad for being made without a pattern, but I think I could have dropped a stitch or two on the chains in the middle... The cross perhaps is a little bulky for a bookmark, but made with a thinner thread (I used Gjestal Maxi, approx. size 10) this would make a lovely pendant! Anyway, I don't want to violate any copyrights, so I checked out the book where the pattern is from (Celtic Tatting Knots & Patterns, by Rozella Linden), and it's now in my shopping cart :)