Motif No. 4

Minaret Snowflake from Tatted Snowflakes by Vida Sunderman tatted in Kreinik braid No. 4 (very fine).  

Another motif I completed in Jan.  It worked up really quickly.  Kreinik braid really is fairly easy to work with.  Even though I tat tightly, I have yet to snap a thread (which I do when using 1 strand of metallic DMC floss).  I am never nervous closing rings, even if they are fairly large.  The huge color selection is also a plus!  

Tatted Snowflakes is another book I am working my way through.  As with 24 Snowflakes in Tatting, my goal is to make every snowflake using a different color of Kreinik braid.  I normally tat in DMC tatting cotton No. 80 in ecru or white, so I am used to filling up both shuttles with thread and not paying attention to how much thread I use.  Since I don't want to end up with a lot of extra thread on my shuttles once a snowflake is complete, I started trying to determine how much thread I will use.  It's going OK so far, but it's tedious.  Sometimes I would start the next snowflake if it wasn't for the whole thread calculation thing!