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

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.

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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.

Snowman, Doilies, Snowflakes, Bookmarks, Motifs, Earrings, Edging, Butterflies, Windmill, Baby Bonnet, Collar, Bracelet, Heart and Pendants

Melanie was asked to tat snowman earrings an online search turned up two patterns, but she thinks the first one, which is tatted in 2 parts, doesn't look very snow-like so she's going to try the other one.

Sue has managed to add one whole motif to her Jan Stawasz doily, which is a lot when you're a busy lady.

mb duke test tatted "Crystalline" snowflake pattern for Robin Perfetti and really loves it. She tatted it in size 40 Lizbeth Blue Ice and the first 2 rows would make a nice round medallion for a necklace. She did a second version of this snowflake in size 80 white Lizbeth thread. The second time she omitted the thrown rings between the points of the snowflake in the final round. For teacher gifts this year she tatted bookmarks. She's still working on Renulek's 2015 Spring doily and is about two thirds of the way around this row.

Linda has 3 of 4 ghosts tatted ins size 20 thread from a Mark Meyers pattern for a lady in Texas.

Grace finished this gorgeous Valentine doily from Land of Laces blog. The earrings are tatted in Sulky Blendables from a pattern by Anne Bruvold. It only took about 6 yards of thread for 2 earrings so she did them in several different colours. This peach motif I made from a Russian website that she forgot to note down. Pictured here:  Left, Mystery Doily from Craftree, Center top and right top, motif from Japanese book and center bottom and right bottom, heart motif from Lyn Morton's book.

 Diane used size 10 Aunt Lydia's thread to make this snowflake and while it's great for crochet it doesn't work quite as well for tatting because it shreds if you have to unpick a stitch. It's 6" across, about an inch and a half bigger than the green one tatted in size 20 Omega. She thinks the teal, bronze, and white thread she used for the next snowflake is Artiste from Hobby Lobby. She decided the doilies that decorate her hutch needed washing and blocking and here they are sitting out to dry. She tatted another Noelle snowflake in Aunt Lydia's but the pastel thread was a little rougher than the others, making it a little more difficult to close the rings. Another snowflake from Robin Perfetti's newest collection is Eclipse, a very pretty pattern. He daughter's students call her CC, so Diane made her this bookmark with double Cs. She was using up thread on her shuttles and made this short bookmark from a Japanese book, Tatting Lace. She also tatted this 3 1/2" motif which was very easy and just the right size for a piece in her curio cabinet.

Erisnyx has been tatting but not blogging and here are several pieces she has been working on. The Tatted Bookmark by Lenore English was made for her Grandmother's birthday in Lizbeth size 20, #146 and #603. Star No. 2, from the book Tatting Patterns and Designs by Gun Blomqvist and Elwy Persson is done in size 10. She really liked changing Edging 24, from A Tatter's Workbook into a bookmark in Lizbeth size 20, #138. Edging 39 in Lizbeth size 20, #633 and #647 from A Tatter's Workbook got connected to this handkerchief.  Lizbeth size 20, #122 and #657 were used for this Butterfly from Tatted Animals, by Inga Madsen. She couldn't decide which colour she wanted to use for Jane Eborall's Watering Can pattern so she used five. The Paisley pattern by Mark Myers was done in Lizbeth size 20, #618, #620, #680, and #688. She still had some thread on the shuttles afterward and used them to make Jane Eborall's Windmill. The Butterick Butterfly Bookmark by Martha Ess made a great present for my aunt's birthday tatted in Lizbeth size 20, #657, #686, #688, #684, and #680. Lacy Bookmark pattern by LaRae Mikulecky, done in Lizbeth size 20, #148 was made for her cousin's birthday. Edging 18 from A Tatter's Workbook also got to become a bookmark done in DMC size 30.

Fox is adding the third last motif and the thread is really bad and slows her down considerably with all the splitting and knotting. The cap is more the right size, working up quickly, so  the #20 was the right choice. Suneeti sent pictures of the lace Fox sent her finally attached to the perfect sweater. Taking a break from her larger projects she did some mignonette motifs from the Russian book that she got from Elena.

Jenn test tatted a gorgeous snowflake pattern named Polaris by Robin Perfetti which was fun to tat. For the Mystery TAL, she decided to continue on with the same colour and used split chains and a split ring to move up to the next round. She now has Round 5 done and the mistakes made earlier didn't affect it.

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Lilas has posted two of her designs, the bracelet and the heart.

Margaret test tatted this wonderful pattern for Robin called Polaris in Lizbeth thread size 20. She tatted a pendant from Tatting with Rings by Jon Yusoff, called Teratai in Lizbeth Royal Wave size 20. The butterfly is from Mary Konior Tatting Patterns book.  This bracelet is from Shabby Chic Tatting by Rozella F Linden, a pattern called Ribbon and Flowers lace. She was going to make several flowers to go on top of the flowers in the pattern giving it a 3D effect but in the end I just did the middle one.

Marie needed another set of earrings. She loves how these pendants came out, but she can't keep them all so they're in her shop. Robin Perfetti's Eclipse snowflake, done in size 20 thread, with and without beads. This bracelet was created to match her swirly set. This variation of Swirly was done in 2 colours. Followed by a 2 colour pendant. Here's the necklace with more beads.

Muskaan gave this design the name "Gerbera Lace" when she used the variegated red thread & the central flower looked like a beautiful Gerbera. The broad lace is done in variegated red and solid black, but the black was coarse and hard to work with.

Phyllis found her missing tatting that was hiding under a pad of paper.

Sue finished and blocked Renulek's Spring 2014 Doily in size 40 Lizbeth Pineapple Parfait, Orange Crush, and Lime Green Med. Holy Cross from Elaine P. Gan tatted in size 40 Lizbeth Niagara Falls. Another Elaine P. Gan design which is supposed to be a neckpiece with chains and clasps on each side tatted in size 40 Lizbeth Elderberry Jam.  Elaine's Mercy Cross tatted in size 40 Tatskool's HDT Rainbow Bright is about the size of her thumb. Elaine's My Portion Cross tatted in size 40 Tatskool's HDT Rainbow Bright is her favourite. This test tat is an earring that goes with the blue pendant she did earlier. This earring design by Elaine tatted in size 40 Lizbeth Caribbean has an open area where you can place a small charm in the centre. Another test tat done in size 20 Lizbeth Lilac Dk. More test tatting for Elaine these are earrings in size 20 Lizbeth Caribbean. Size 40 HDT from Tat-ilicious for this earring design. Her own Confetti HDT in size 10 for this last earring.  These earrings are test tatted in size 20 Lizbeth Island Breeze. The test tat for this earring design is done in size 40 Lizbeth Navy Blue with tiny pearlish white beads.