Flowers in Her Hair

For those who were wondering, here's what I was doing with all those shuttles:

The base of the pattern is from this Japanese book:

I made up patterns for most of the flowers. 

For the color scheme I was nominally inspired by these flowers:

And here it is on a person:

I think with the colors it would look better on a blonde--it gets a little lost in my hair. :)

So Many Shuttles!

One of my favorite things about tatting is that even though there is only one stitch, there are so many possibilities!!

The bottom two are taped together for a piece of four-color tatting.

So fun!