Doilies, Bookmarks, Doodles, edging, earrings, Flag, Star, Pendants, Bracelet,

Gwen got 1/2 of Round 4 on Renulek's Spring Doily done and should be able to complete the other half soon.

Julie made the Priscilla bookmark, a pattern from Tatting by the Bay, using Marilee Rockley's Crocus HDT. This little motif she tatted in size 40 Liazbeth 184, Rainbow Splash, designed by Tomoko Morimoto makes a perfect little gift.

Sue has been busy in the garden which hasn't left much time for tatting, but she is making slow progress on her doily.

Nancy finished 2 yards of edging that will be use for an heirloom gown.

Linda's CQ Americana with red, white and blue tatting front and centre.

Claire tatted Waves earrings by Corina Meyfeldt in grey the first time, but this time she used Lizbeth size 20 thread, in Med Purple, #632 with a slightly larger, 6mm pearl and the larger pearl looks better on this size thread.

Diane thinks she's over the hump with rounds 10 and 11 of the Jan Stawasz doily and anticipates that working on it will be easier now. Another pattern repeat. And another. That's 5 repeats. She thought she'd time it to see how long a repeat takes and was surprised to find that it took two and a half hours.

Fox is amazed that she had enough perseverance to get this far on Ben Fikkert's pattern which she would have been afraid to start a couple of years ago. Yay Fox! She was pleased to find the instructions for adding beads to split rings on Jane Eborall's web site.

IsDihara was a teacher at her local yarn store where the students used snippets of tatting to decorate pin cushion jars. (There's a clever idea.) The June Tatting Social was all about patriotic tatting and they tatted stars and American flag bookmarks in different sizes.

Jenn finished round 7 of the tatalong doily but weighing out how much thread she has left, she's thinking of changing to white for the next round.

Kristen finished this edging and started attaching it to the hanky, but it just didn't want to fit, leaving a gap at the corner. She cut it off and has it pinned around the edge hoping to stretch it out a little and try again later.

Marie created these earrings to go with the necklace she made. This pendant was made from a single clip earring. She tatted this bracelet from the Handy Hands newsletter using size 20 thread and 6 mm beads. This cameo was an old bolo slide which she removed the slide part and made it into a pendant. These were a pair of clip earrings that she added tatting around to make a lovely bridal set. This is an old design she worked on adding a drop bead to make more bridal earrings.

HisKid test tatted this bracelet for Elaine P. Gan in size 20 (not her usual choice), Lizbeth Caribbean.

Wanda wanted to make a bracelet in red white and blue tatting around white buttons, but the white thread kept breaking so she finally tatted around the red and and blue designs in white thread but she's not sure how to turn it into a bracelet now. She got stuck in a hotel waiting for her flight back home which left her with lots of tatting time to work on bookmarks. The design is her lattice bookmark. She did it again without the tail, both are in Lizbeth Caribbean.

Necklaces, Rings, Snowman, Bracelet, Earrings, Motifs, Doilies, Baby Bonnet and Bookmarks

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1. Permission to copy. When a participant joins they are authorizing me to copy their pictures to be shown on the challenge blog.

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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.

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Dorota used natural beige colour thread, beads and coconut shell to make this necklace and rings.

Melanie did several sketches, some test tatting that she lost track of and finally arrived with the snowman, but now that it's done she thinks it looks like a duck, maybe because the beads are too big.

Mary Lena added glass beads, tiny silver bows and tatted flowers to make an utterly charming set of earrings, bracelet and necklace for a young lady.

Julie tatted Jennifer Williams Cluny Flower Pattern with black and a colourful variegated thread for a very dramatic look. She shows a length of cluny leaves and notes that cluny leave and split rings can be interchanged in designs. She has included a video link to show the process on her blog.

Sue has been working on her doily adding motifs around the outer rim, but she was distracted while watching TV and joined to the wrong point. Rather than cut she laboriously undid the work and is now happily half way around it.

Linda finished the doily from Catherine Austin's book, A New Twist on Tatting working it in size 20 purple/white variegated.

Diane finally took the plunge and restarted round 10 of her Jan Stawasz Masterpiece doily.

Fox finished fussing with the tatted cap and blocked it over a bowl perched on a glass. Once it was shaped it was still large enough for an adult's head so she gave it a bath in very hot water and now it will fit a small child, but it's too large for and infant. She recommends that anyone wanting to make it use size 30 for a child or very small adult. Fox has reached down deep and found the necessary intestinal fortitude to struggle on with the Fikkert doily and achieve completion. To that end she is making the round of outer motifs. After these are secured by the third row of the motif, there are 24 smaller motifs to be tatted and attached by twisty chains. She's working through it! Way to go!

Jenn has round 6 of the Mystery TAL done and she's enjoying these easy rows that let her multitask.

Marie was using up some thread and designed this Pink Beady necklace. That was so much fun that she did another in white. The earring has been reworked with beads,pearls and tatting for a lovely pendant.

Martha has been busy with lost of other things, but now and then she pulls Wiosna out of her tatting bag and works on it.

Muskaan shares her progress through the 2015 Beginner's Mystery Tat-A-Long from the beginning medallion through to the scalloped edging. The design by Tina Frauberger was re-worked by Robin Perfetti and then turned into a lovely bookmark.

Phyllis has been working on smaller projects like the red earrings, called Simple ROR earrings by Corona Meyfeldt, while the medium blue are Tigereye earrings by Elizabeth C. Zipay. The green earrings are a pattern by Kerstin called Tutu Motif.  The blue Tardis Bookmark is by Anne Bruvold.  The pen insert is from Tat Days 2013 by Tonya Smith.  The key fob was the start of a lanyard for hubby using a pattern by Patti Duff.

Wanda, besides decorating buttons, made a few bookmarks while on the cruise in Lizbeth #130 Island Breeze and #122 Caribbean in size 20.