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.

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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.

Lanyard, Doilies, Easter egg, Motifs, Bookmarks, Earrings, Ice Drops, Angel, Snowflakes, Minions, Pendants, Brooch, Garland, Ornaments and Tablecloth

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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Usha has decided to join our challenge and lately she has been tatting lanyards. This one is in lilac thread with brown bugle beads. Another is in Dark blue and transparent white beads. Then she tatted a combo of pink and shiny white beads on both halves of the split ring and little bigger crystal bead in between the rings.

Vera was reminded of this tablecloth she started when another tatter began the same design. Since she abandoned the project she's not sure of the thread she was using and she's undecided on whether or not to continue it. She spent her international tatting day making a tatted girdle... for an egg!

Marthanne is working on Renulek's 2017 doily, first in size 20. Then in size 40 which feels so dainty and lacey while she is working on it. In size 20 it's 10.5 inches across and in size 40 it's 9 inches across. Motif #9 from A Tatter's Workbook was fun to tat although she made vsp on the rings to join them, climbed out with a split ring and tatted continuously around the motif rather that cutting the thread at the end of each round as indicated in the book. She used Ellen Lai's Lucky Four Leaf Clover with only 3 leaves to make a Shamrock bookmark with a long tail to sit in a book.

Melanie finished another round on the Renulek's Wiosna 2017 and she can't wait to start on the next round.

Claire turned this exercise in overlapping rings into a pair of earrings  adding a 6 mm beads, in Lizbeth size 20, Scottish thistle, #175 working up joins on one of them, whereas down-joins were used on the second one, in order to create a mirrored image of the first.

Diane loves all the different combinations of Ice Drops and she just can't stop tatting them. She's fascinated by the gems that allow the lace to show through the back. Sharing her pattern ideas with others has been so much fun and she really enjoys seeing how others interpret and adapt her designs. A rainy day is usually a reading day, but instead she spent it tatting another Ice Drop using size 20 Flora #216. Then she worked on  round 7 of Renulek's Wiosna 2017, which is now 10 1/4" in diameter. She had more fun with colour using some different coloured beads she found in Hobby Lobby. She used up the last of her bargain beads from Hobby Lobby that remind her of the Dots candy strips we used to eat as kids. She uncovered a little dish of cracked gems that seemed to pair perfectly with them. Then she moved on to a strand of sale beads. She's been sticking to her basic pattern partly because it lets her get more Ice Drops done to send to her friend Jane. Partly she's sticking with the basic pattern because she has it memorized and it lets her mind wander to different colour combinations. Tatting this one has her craving chip and mint ice cream!

Fox began row 8 about 5 times either reading the instructions wrong or not following them, but in spite of the tat, snip, tat cycle, she has it done at eleven inches. Row 9 is intricate and time consuming, so it's going to take a while.

Margaret started her Pinterest challenge with the bookmark above, done in Lizbeth thread Grape Pizzaz size 20. Here's a close up. The angel she tatted in December that was marred by running ink has been rescued and looks good as new. She enjoyed tatting the Onion ring snowflake, by Mrs R.R. Richardson and has been updated by Wally Sosa. She did the first one in white and the second in white and purple thread. Both are in Lizbeth thread size 20. The yellow Ice Drop is Diane's pattern for the Purple Fudge Ice Drop, and she used some vintage yellow coats variegated size 20 thread, with the white and a gold glass gem in the middle. This is Diane's pattern called Root Beer Fudge Ice Drop, for which she used Grape Pizzaz in size 20, the beads are pale pink they only just show up in the picture and the centre is a plain white glass gem.

Marie added a tatted "Stuart" to a denim bag for a friend. She used mint green thread for this design by CM-Handmade. Here is another brooch, from her Stacked Brooch Collection called "Mom's Christmas Brooch, Triangle". Another similar design called "Mom's Christmas Brooch, Diamond".

Muskaan created a pattern called Jasmine Braid/‘Gajra’ reminiscent of the garlands ladies wear in their hair. She has included the detailed instructions for it on her blog.

Nikki finished another row on her doily and the tiny picot between a couple of rings in this row has helped to stabilize the design.

Sue thinks Robin's First Snowfall Snowflake makes an elegant ornament decoration as long as you have the right sized ornament. It's a little loose, but here you can see the whole snowflake on the bottom. She ornament collection is slowly filling in. She has made some progress on her tablecloth and you can see how it looks on the table. She has plans to fill out the lace on either side of the strip and then make it wider to fit the table.

Wanda has encouraged everyone to tat and eat chocolate on International Tatting Day.