Snowflakes, Hearts and Edgings

Angie tatted Nancy Tracy's Clover Drop Heart, a fun and quick pattern.Vinnie has been busy tatting but neither her lace nor her pictures are working out. Ancolie tatted a vintage edging in blue and white. Wanda tatted Jon's Quantiesque snowflake in DMC size 30 threads, light pink and light green for her daughter. Ais has been trying out some new techniques. Maltese rings were a bit of a challenge but she found help online ad thinks she has it figured out now. Then she tried adding beads to her tatting but she thinks she needs a simple pattern to experiment with. Wendy is working on another edging for the challenge, this one in a very fine vintage thread.
Aileen tatted Christel Weidmann's cow from Tatting Farm Animals in time for the Year of the Ox, made in size 20 Coats. Diane used up the thread n her clover shuttles tatting the Easy Bookmark and Heart from the Learn to Tat book by Janette Baker. Jeff redid Ruth's Celtic snowflake in Oren Bayan Metallic thread in Gold #032. Lots of sparkly in this one. Sherry used size 20 Apricot Mousse hand dyed silk for this motif and she has posted a tutorial showing different ways of tatting rings for different effects. Wally tatted this heart by Karey Solomon from her book "Heart Belong to Tatting" This one is called Heart of the Rose made in DMC Petra #8 in pink and ecru.

Bookmarks, Snowflakes, Bears and Crosses

Charlotte has joined our challenge to encourage her to keep tatting. Here is motif number 2 - "Stella di Edda Schneider" that she found on the web.


Vicki decided to take a break from her Doily and make this cross for her mom. She plans on framing it and giving it to her. The pattern is the Cross Bookmark from Sharon Albers.


Wanda is due congratulations on the birth of her second grandson!

Claudia has tatted motifs 12, 13 and 14 for the challenge. She was inspired by Teri Dusenbury. Also, she has tatted a long chain with lots of picots that she saw on the internet but doesn't remember to whom it belongs. Can you help?





Shirley has been working on cluny leaves. She is satisfied with how the leaves turned out, but can't seem to join them to the tatting. (Her fingers hurt like mine.) The cross is a pattern she has had for a long time but doesn't remember to whom it belongs. She will gladly give credit if someone can identify it.



Anne B shows us a picture of 6 motifs and gives us pointers on designing our own patterns.


Margaret has been very busy tatting hearts by Sharon Briggs and Ruth Perry. She tatted these for a friend for her mom's birthday. Such a lot of beautiful work.






Moni has tatted motifs 8 - 13. 8 and 9 are snowflakes and she thinks they show definite improvement. #10 is a Christmas tree and #11 is two teddy bears. #12 is a pretty beaded necklace and #13 is a pink bookmark.







Wally has tatted a lovely, floral bookmark of her own design. It is so pretty!

Mats, bookmakrs, hearts and snowflakes

Charlotte's our newest member to the challenge. Welcome! Her sister has recently bought all the kit for making gocco prints and she shows us here lovely 'experiments'.

Wendy has uploaded a how bunch of photos of her completed crafts! Do take a look.

BJ has been trying out the Yorkie Dimples - it looks good to me!



Diane's pulled out one of her books and is enjoying her shuttle collection. She's tatted a heart and a bookmark from "Learn to Tat"


Wally has some Egyptian cotton for sale so do take a look. She also shows us her latest tats: Jon's Quantiesque Snowflake, an orphan doiley in DMC Petra #8, a Monster of a tatted mat which was an Oval Mat from one of Ann Orr's books (she used Petra #8!) as well as a Monster 'junior' which was a coaster from the same book.

Butterflies, Snowflakes, Hearts, Bookmarks and more

There are now 55 participants in the challenge and today's posting has taken me about 6 hours to complete. So grab a cup of your favourite beverage and prepare to drool over your keyboard for a while.

Charlotte is a new participant and she begins her challenge with the Frosted Flower Snowflake from Samantha Melnychuk's A Veritable Tatted Blizzard.
Vicki has added a navy blue round to the clover doily and it's really coming together. The next round will be variegated. Also completed is a little bitty cross.
Christine tatted Jon’s Hearts Entwined/Crowning Hearts pattern using Heather’s Hand Dyed Thread "Cotton Candy" in size 30.
Kyoung-mi has been very, very busy tatting for the challenge and here are her next 19 motifs! Don't you love the way she has combined her pottery with the tatting? You can also see Sherry's HDT influence.
Hye-Soon has also been busy tatting and here are some of the things she has done. HDT also figures heavily into her thread choices . If you'd like to make some cute itty bitty baby dolls check out her tutorial under the quilt label.
Kelly is wondering if her flurry of tatted snowflakes has contributed to the white stuff on the ground. Her girlfriend wanted a doily but she wanted a solid centre as it was to go under a lamp so Kelly tatted a lovely edging on a circle of fabric. Now her friend wants 3 more. I think I'd rather have friends like this who appreciate what I make rather than those that think tatting is a lost art.
Angie is determined to finish some of her unfinished projects, but first she just had to tat Connie Strobel's fan from the Be-Stitched page. Then she had thread on her shuttles so she just had to tat the quick Li'l Heart by Birgit Phelps. In a bid to finish her UFOs she finally sat down and added the tatting to these 2 hankies.The green one is the simplified version of Skipping Ropes from Mary Konior's Tatting with Visual Patterns and the blue is the traditional hens and chicks pattern. The little snowflake tatted in Olympus 40 was madefor her window. The little pig from Christel Weidmann's Tatting Farm Animals is going to her sister who collects pigs.
Steph has tatted Debbie Arnold's seahorse in Sherry's "Seaweed" HDT and named the seahorse after the thread colour.
Vinnie created an entire flower garden small enough to be mounted on a snowflake. Would this look gorgeous mounted on a large decorative gold button instead of a snowflake? It's almost like a miniature world. She thought she'd try out onion ring technique and made this cute little butterfly in the car on the way to Dadri. The red and white sample is a maltese ring butterfly made on the way back.
Ancolie has tatted a 6 petal flower and unlike a typical daisy none of the rings are joined to one another. The pattern for this bookmark is called "Big Cross".
Heather was designing something in her "Flower Garden" HDT size 20. It decided it wanted to be a bookmark and Heather and Heather has generously shared the pattern. Here's the Butterfly Bookmark.
TattingChic has a tatted a heart and it's part of a giveaway on her blog. Check it out.
Bonnie tatted Ruth Perry's 2008 Celtic Snowflake, her #21 of the 25 Motif Challenge made using Marilee's "Lola" HDT, size 30. The bookmark is for the Tatting Round Robin a pattern by Julie Patterson called Spring Flowers Bookmark in size 80 DMC thread in blue and a variegated green.
Aileen has finished her butterfly round robin with these 2 beauties. The first is modified butterfly by Italian designer Ms Edda called Farfalla rossa 1 done in DMC size 80 thread. Her next butterfly has the alternative tatted centre by Jane Eborall done in 20 Coats with size 11 beads. I think it looks spectacular.
Eva started tatting Quantiesque on her flight to Lanzarote using plastic shuttles with point because she couldn't use her crochet hook. It was difficult getting used to the point but she managed and will probably do this snowflake again.
Joy finished her hanky edging. The pattern is hens and chicks and the thread is Olympus size 40 is lovely pastel shades. The hanky blank is from Handy Hands.
Martha has her 25th motif done. The first picture show the trial bits that didn't work. The second one shows it assembled. Now it needs a name. Any ideas?
Sherry tatted her fish in "RAIN FOREST" Silk HDT size 20 tatting thread and used a mother of pearl bead for the fish eye. She has tweaked the pattern a bit, but it still needs a little something.
Wally has switched her blog to Blogger for her tatting. She was playing with interlaced picots and made this asymmetrical little heart that looks like it wants to fly. Then she decided to use the technique in a flower gradually increasing the length of the picots she used. The flower gained a border that made it into a heart with another little flower at it's point. Her last entry for the day is a pattern called Trio of Hearts by Vicki Clarke that she will use as earrings.