Yuletide is rapidly approaching and while we don't think we will be in the new house by Christmas Day, preparing ornaments has been a priority.   We probably won't have a tree or any serious decorations this year, but I'll be ready for 2025!

Below you see 5 ornament balls with their tatted covers.  From left to right, there is a black satin-wrapped styrophone ball covered with Olympus Lame Metallic thread color # 408 Bronze with added gold-ish bugle beads.  The pattern for the central motif was adapted from pattern 19 in Frau Endruck's Tatting / Schiffchen-Spitzen  publication of 1920.  The second ornament is actually a pale blue egg-shaped ornament addorned with white Lizbeth thread, size 20 and navy blue beads.  This was truly nothing fancy - simply 4 p 4 p 4 p 4 rings with the 11/0 seed beads covering what would be the chain thread and white tear-drop beads between the ring segments.  The third ornament is created using Joelle Paulson's 2012 "Flowering Quatrain Bookmark" (available on her blog) as the central wrap of the motif. It was created using the Italian thread "Master Metallic" in the color red/gold a personal favorite because it holds its shape so well when working up a pattern.  Not widely available Master Metallic is a special metallic thread unlike most of the others of that type. 

Number 4 is a pattern found in a photograph on Pinterest that I had to work out independently.  It is placed over a frosted green glass ornament.  The fifth ornament is again worked over a satin-wrapped styrofoam ornament.  The pattern is one I have lost track of but was carried out using another Master Metallic thread.  In each case, there is a basic pattern of either a simple ring with picots, a clover pattern or simple snowflake with the appropriate number of picots that would allow for weaving individual thread between top or top and bottom, joining these motifs to the central ring.  

I'm not going to post any patterns here at this time.  Much of the motifs used were simply ones that were just worked from memory or from basic tatting design principles.