Looking for a tooth - a molar

[JenniferB]

Happy Saturday morning tatting friends! I've searched the boards and haven't found this yet.

I'm searching for a small tatted tooth - like a molar. I have a number of small white boxes - the kind that small pieces of jewelry and broaches come in. I thought with bits of ribbon added and a tatted tooth they would make nice "tooth fairy boxes" for children.

[Judy]

OOh! This sounds like the first design challenge of 2011! How big do you want this to be? Dimension limits on the box?

[Marie N]

Lovely idea JenniferB. 3D or flat tooth?

[JenniferB]

There are 2 pictures floating in my head. One is a flat tooth about 1 inch square done mostly with a chain that is formed and pressed, so it is more of an unfilled outline. The second is also flat and done with a combination of of rings, split rings and chains.

Yesterday I was working on one of Jane Eborall's seahorses, and the nose/beak part looked like it had interesting beginnings for a molar root.

[JenniferB]

I worked up a pattern for a little molar and posted it in the member's pattern section. Enjoy :)