Challenge yourself to tat 25 motifs within the next 12 months and show us your progress. A motif can be a medallion, snowflake, heart, bookmark, butterfly, earrings or any small piece of tatting. Tell us where the pattern is from or if it's original. Post pictures on your blog, web page or photo page. Add a comment below the current post giving the location of your pictures and you will be added to the list of links.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Bookmark,Snowflake, Horseshoe and an Antique Collar
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Bookmarks, Bangles, Butterflies and Earrings
Charlotte tats on the go and shows us her tatting corner is really a red silk bag.
Hye-Soon has been busy. She did this tatted version of filet crochet as shown in Mary Konior's Tatting with Visual Patterns which is very effective done in 2 colours. Two more of Mary's patterns are Masquerade which Hye-Soon has made into a mat and Black Magic which is currently bookmark size.
Jeanne has posted a collection of decorative paperclips based on patterns by Ellen Lai as posted on Georgia Seitz' online tatting class website. The left Butterfly is the Shuttle Brother's SCMR Butterfly and the next one is based on it. The 2 on the right are Jeanne's Ruffled SCMR Butterfly, check her pattern blog for the pattern.
Joy used that last of her white Irish linen embellished with tatting to make this adorable bonnet.
Wally redid the motif with the errant picot and added some sequin sparkle before mounting it in a bangle. This jumble of tatting are the tatted and crocheted items she did last year.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Give Away's, Work Baskets and a Bad Picot
Best of all to celebrate her 100th post Ellen is having a giveaway with some tatting treats, be sure to visit her blog for details.
Aileen has joined a bunch of new tatting clubs. The first is the group that has tatted Jon's Quantiesque Snowflake. She has also joined the tatting space challenge be sure to check out her blog to find out the details about Aileens tatting space and some of her favorite tatting things.
Martha has information posted on her blog about the Fringe Element Tat Days Conference September 25 and 26 in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.
TattingChic has posted about what is in her work basket and about Work Basket magazines that have been given to her. She also shows us her special box that holds her collection of Work Basket Magazines that her Grandpa made for her Grandma.
Wally is asking for everyone's opinion about what to do with the bad, evil picot.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Hearts, Doily, Earrings, Maple Leaf, and Ornaments
Kelly tatted these earrings in some metallic thread and she liked how they turned out so she learned how to do a beaded center split ring in needle tatting so that she could make a matching bracelet. The set is made in Altin Basak size 30. Bonnie has been away from tatting for a while, then she jumped back on the bandwagon with some of Ellen's tatted paperclips, but they were so fast and easy to do that she has given them away without blogging first. This tatted leaf done in variegated DMC size 30 was the first piece to stay long enough to get it's picture taken. Diane's tatting corner with some tatting essentials, thread, shuttles, computer, good light, comfortable chair. Wally made a couple of sequined ornaments from a pattern I created a few months ago. I remember when she did them her finished pieces were not quite the same size as mine probably because the sequins were a different size and she had to modify the design a little to fit the bangles. The ornaments have given her an idea for a new design.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Hair Clip, Edgings and Tatting Corners
Krystle has issued a blog challenge for tatters to show their tatting corner "as is".
Vinnie has a little crochet bag she made to carry her tatting supplies.
Jeanne shows us her tatting corner.
Heather shows us her tatting corner complete with her little helper. Plans are underway to teach her daughter to tat. Wally has finished and mounted her fairy hair and flower on a hair clip.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Jewelry, Butterflies, Bugs, and Hearts
Kathy modified Jon's entwined heart pattern and created a larger enclosed heart. The finished lace has been added to a Victorian shoe Christmas stocking.
Heather has an assortment of new HDT ready including Bali, Waves, Turquoise Violet, Turquoise, Pink for Link, Harvest and Halloween. Heather also has a Mystery Contest going and has tatted some pieces in her new HDT Harvest Time in size 20 and again in Turquoise Violet the size 30. Joy has tatted her version of the Mary Fitch Handkerchief Case from the 1915 Crocheted Yokes and Tatting book.
Martha has a bag of "buggy" buttons and she has used them to make more lanyards.
Sherry has also been dying more HDT. Available now are Middle Earth, Tropicana, Royalty, and Pastel Rainbow.
Wally discovered the tatting trimmed hanky on an outing with her sister. This marble stone has been encapsulated by tatting using Lizbeth thread. Now she has to find the right cord for the pendant.