Doilies, Student's work, Name Tag, Bookmarks, Ice Drops, Runner, Minions, Pendants, Earrings, Teapot, Motifs, Birds, Butterflies, Tablecloth and Crosses

The Guidelines

1. Permission to copy. When a participant joins they are authorizing me to copy their pictures to be shown on the challenge blog.
2. The blogs are ALL checked whenever there is an update using the links list in the sidebar on the right, there is no need to advise me that you have added new content. If your new items haven't shown up, it's because I haven't had time to do an update yet.
3. I can't keep track of how many motifs each person does. You may post articles of tatting that you don't plan on including in your 25, or you may post a pair of earrings and count each earring as a separate motif. I don't read minds, so it's up to each participant to tell me when they have reached their goal of 25.
4. From past experience I know the challenge is addictive. If you finish and plan on doing it again let me know so that I continue to check your blog on a regular basis. Also let me know if once was enough so that I can move your blog to the list of past participants.
5. Whenever you get a chance don't just view the pictures here, take the time to click on the links to people's blogs and read all about what they are doing, instead of just getting the snippets of it here. People like it when you take the time to visit their blog and comment on their work. A lot of the fun of the challenge is that we get to know each other and encourage one another to try new things.
6. Tatting 25 motifs in a year typically means tatting 2 motifs per month. Tatters who do not post any tatting content for 5 or 6 months will be removed from the list of participants.

---------------

Vera is a bit behind but she has been working on Renulek's doily. She is at the 15th row of Renulek's 2016 doily which she is tatting in Eldorado thread and the doily is presently 50cm across.

Marthanne is working on row 9 and didn't like the number of ds in the floating rings. She thought that it made the ring too big and open so it took her four starts before she liked what she was doing. Then inattention resulted in tatting the wrong thing in the wrong place. She's half way through her doily being worked in size 20 thread, then she'll go on to working on the size 40 doily.

Sue has been teaching some ladies to tat and they have been making some lovely laces. From not knowing how to tat they progressed to split rings and hanging clunies and one of the ladies tatted this design which incorporated her name. Sue entered a bookmark exchange and tatted this Fandango bookmark using Jane Eborall's design.

Diane has been working on this Spinning Wheel Glass Mat that she has been carrying around for a while. She used Marilee Rockley's size 20 Candy Mint HDT to make these 4 Ice Drops. She started round 9 of Renulek's Wiosna 2017 which was easy to memorize but slow to tat. Two more Ice Drops done in the luscious Candy Mint. Some more variations of thread, gem and ribbon combinations of Ice Drops. Two more Ice Drops tatted in size 20 Lizbeth #115, Springtime. Setting up her loom for weaving hasn't left her much tatting time, but she did get one more Ice Drop tatted. This Spring Garden Ice Drop is tatted in size 20 Lizbeth #115, Springtime. This Ice Drop is in size 20 Lizbeth #124, Spring Garden. She's still working from the same ball of size 20 Lizbeth #124, Spring Garden for this Ice Drop. She managed one more motif of her sister in law's runner. She managed two pattern repeats on her doily, so she's a little more than 1/4 of the way around. One last Ice Drop in Spring Garden finished off her day.

Fox is working on Renulek "Zebra" doily which is now over 7 inches across done in Lizbeth size 40. The eighth row took a while, but the next few look fairly routine and she's still enjoying it.

Margaret tatted the minion pattern by Sarah Wood for s birthday card and the recipient loved it. Renulek's Snow frywolitkowa napkin 2012 worked in Lizbeth Sea Island Citrus thread no 20 is finally finished.

Marie used four strands of sewing thread and four shuttles to make this cross pendant found in the Italian magazine, Il Mio Chiacchierino for her sister's birthday. A tatsmithed pendant, made with two strands of sewing thread was left ruffled for a more lacy effect. The last of her Stacked Ring Brooch collection mounted on a safety pin. Embellishment added to earrings shown with the bare foundation row and then the finished product. One of her favourite patterns, Martha Ess's, "Tiny Teapot".

Muskaan loved the Celtic effect and elegance of Celeste by Sparrow Kelly which she started in maroon and blue but made a mistake in the 2nd repeat and had to start again with more attention. The second in pink and blue worked out much better and, as usual she has included her notes on her blog. She is determined to work some of the patterns from the books she already has, rather than buy more books she doesn't have the storage space for and she has been filling her shuttles with size 40 thread and selecting designs of similar shape so that they can be strung together later for a bookmark or mobile. This one is Star #1 from Tatting Patterns and Designs by Blomqvist and Persson. Muskaan has been Sewing On and Using Pieces of tatting, which is how she created this picture using a bird, a butterfly and motifs as flowers with snippets of laces for leaves, which were taped on so the recipient could remove the lace and use it. Super 17 Butterfly (3D in size 40) and her tiny Hibiscus doodad embellished an envelope.

HisKid tatted an Ice Drop that was appropriated by her granddaughter who ran around calling it the Heart of Tafiti, but sadly she lost it when she got home, so grandma just had to make another in Celery HDT with a green gem, flower back and spiral front. She used a mirror centre for this IceDRop tatted in size 40 HDT she special ordered years ago, which she calls Hippie Summer. Here's a purple bingo chip Ice Drop tatted in size 80 Lizabeth Razzle Dazzle, and the pattern is available on her blog. The skinny "tail" on her tablecloth is gaining body, but it's slow progress.

Wanda keeps a few bookmarks on hand as gifts and her recent cross was enclosed in a sympathy card for a friend who lost her mother.

Motifs, Angel, Birds, Picture, Hearts, TIAS, Lady, Ice Drops, Doilies, Pendants, Bookmarks, Earrings, Hatband

Marthanne started her 3rd motif which is #58 found on page 30 of A Tatter's Workbook, but then she realized she didn't start it properly. She started it again and this time completed it successfully, but her pull through thread broke hiding the last thread so she just knotted it and made a loop. Her last motif isn't numbered in the book, it's just called medallion.

Sarah tatted Leen's Tatted Angel, which she got from a now defunct Geocities web site, but fortunately the pattern is still available from the Wayback machine.

Batty Tatter tatted Jane's little bird and put him in a water colour tree.

Elsa has finally put the finishing touches on her acrylic and tatting picture. She had part of the shawl done, but had to tat the second half. The shawl uses the figure of 26 from Priscilla Tatting Book 3 and some medallions of a DMC book by Thérèse de Dillmont. She used the same medallions in darker shades on the back of the shawl, accompanied by the magnificent dragon by Anne Bruvold.

Melanie tried out the Block Heart Bracelet designed by Muskaan in both needle and shuttle using size 20 Lizbeth thread.

Sue finished Jane's TIAS and has her very own crinoline lady

Lelia has Day 10 of TIAS done in both Lizbeth size 20 Colour 403, Winter Ice  Twirlz and Lizbeth size 20 Colour 161, Sea Island Citrus.

Diane tatted this Ice Drop with a Hello Kitty charm. She tried the beach themed beads again, but they really are too big. Seven motifs done on her sister in law's runner. She did 3 more Ice drops and is amazed at how the different gems and ribbons make for totally different looks. She finished her latest Spinning Wheel glass mat from Tatting with Visual Patterns by Mary Konior. This is a glow in the dark gem, but she's never taken the time to see if it really glows in the dark. Fudge Dk thread paired up with a blue gem, blue ribbon and a variation of Mary Donohue's pattern made a gorgeous Ice Drop. There's the eighth motif done and the runner is really growing. This silver glass gem just called out for the silver and white ribbon. She's surprised at how much she likes the white gems with Lizbeth #153, Rainbow Taffy thread. She's already got 16 of them done.

Eliz has been sick and suffering with breathing difficulties so she hasn't been able to do much, but she finally completed her TIAS crinoline lady. (Hope you're feeling better soon!)

Fox finished the impossibly tight row and then discovered that the chain should have had 2 picots. That would do it. Needless to say after some choice words, she hunted up the scissors.

Margaret used Lizbeth Springtime and Green Coral Sea size 20 to tat these two hearts from a pattern called Valentines Day Heart by Edda Guastalla. This pattern is also called Valentine Heart by Etha Schuette and she made it into an ice drop, first with a red gem which was too dark, and then with this clear one.

Marie looked for low domed cabochons to teach a class, but they're not all the same and her husband suggested using buttons like this one which is the first of her button collection. This is the second button she did.

Muskaan has been playing around with Armenian Lace, which led to lattice tatting which she is trying to coax into a heart bookmark for Valentine's day. Her Block tatted heart is done as a pendant with a drop bead. Then it's done as a brooch with a tiny flower embellishment. It's next incarnation is as a bracelet and whichever you tat, it's bound to be lovely.

Nikki made 18 of these heart ornaments and got them sent out more or less in time for Valentine's. The pattern is called Accidental Heart by Natalie. She tried out
Birgit Phelps called Sweetheart and she liked it, but she needed something repetitive that didn't take too much concentration. The heart on the right is a pattern by Betsy Evans called Small Tatted Heart, which was again hard to remember, and she didn't like how it turned out. The Tat Chat heart by LaRae Mikulecky was large and would need a lot of stiffening, so she gave it a pass. Irene Woo's Butterfly Heart had large rings that she found difficult to close and since she didn't want to fight with every heart, she didn't choose this pattern either.

HisKid test tatted Elaine P. Gan's Hearts of Bliss earrings for her 8 year old granddaughter in size 40 Lizbeth Razzle Dazzle with tiny purple beads.

Wanda's Mom picked up a hat at a garage sale but she didn't like the feather decoration, so she replaced it with a tatted hat band that Wanda made for her a long time ago.