Ocean Blue RR, Kay's Block

This is Kay's whole block completed by Joeclyn, Marcia, Linda Burton and myself.

This is what I had done. This was my first try at tatting. I started off with something easy which are the butterflys. I added the the straight stitches for the vines then lastly added the button beads to the vines. The seam embellishment just on the right, I did lazy daisy stitches with French knots and lastly added the light blue flower beads.

My seam embellishment is the zig zag chain with sequins and a bead added in the centre of the sequin.

This is the work of Jocelyn, she does beautiful embroidery, this is her trade mark, love the unicorn. She also did the Open cretan seam embellishment.

Marcia put a lovely blue bead and it is soooo gorgeous. It looks so elegant and she also did the chain stitch seam embellishment with the straight stitches and beads.

Linda Burton did this beautiful long vined silk flower, love her work and she also did the seam embellishment on the right, just beautiful.

Ocean Blue RR Linda's Block

This is what Linda's block looks like when I finished.

This is Linda's block after Marcia finished.

Marcia did a beautiful job on the beaded paisley.

Marcia did a gorgeous beaded lace around the fan.

This what I did on Linda's block.

Blue RR, Ocean Blue Marcia's Block

This is Marcia's block that I worked on, this is what it looks like when I finished.

Here I did a spider web, the spokes were done with a running stitch, and the long web was done by couching the long straight stitches. The spider I used 3 beads and the legs I used smaller beads.

I then did the fly stitch for the flower stems and added flower buttons and lastly the seam treatment I did the feather stitch, then added some beads.

Blue Colour RR, Ocean Blue

Here is my block before I sent it off.

In the group that I am in, CQForNewbies, a colour RR swap has started, and the colour is Blue.

The group that I am in is Ocean Blue.

If I remember correctly, there is about 36 ladies that joined in the swap. We have been broken up into 6 groups, and the hostess running this swap was saying that this is the largest group ever she had done.

This is my first RR swap, and I am kinda nervous. Especially knowing that I am going to be working on other blocks, wondering if my stitches maybe ugly, crooked, not enough or maybe to much ... geez the list goes on.

I received my first block and all I did at first was look at it, trying to figure out what the heck I am going to do.