Doilies, Pendants, Earrings, Edging, Coaster, Toys, Owl and Bracelet

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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Marthanne finished row 9 of her butterfly doily with only 2 un-tats. Row ten was begun for the second time when she realized after 5 repeats that she was doing it wrong and had to cut it off.

Elsa made these earrings using the Celtic Square from Rosemarie Peel's book Tatting for Pleasure. The Celtic square pendant is available online from La navette aux bijoux and she tatted both in polyester thread Tenax 40.

Linda got an early start on making a Christmas stocking for her niece and this edging by pattern designed by Cathy Sowers will be added to the stocking below he niece's name.

Diane had to use the shoelace trick a couple of times, but she had just enough Campfire HDT to finish her coaster. A couple of shots of steam was all it took to make it lay flat. In spite of all the recent excitement of retirement parties, visiting children and grandchildren, a yard sale and other activities she still managed to tat these seven pieces of lace.

Eliz has the tea cloth test tat with round 5 completed and she has one more round of motifs before the centre is completed. The original pattern for the tea cloth is found in Tatting Patterns by Julia Sanders (which, I believe had some issues, if not outright errors in it.) and the entire thing requires 8 odd shaped fabric inserts to complete it. Jessica Spaulding was reworking it with modern techniques and notations.

Fox finally received the thread she has been waiting for and although it's a different dye lot she thinks the colours will look good together on her Concentric Rectangles doily.

Margaret test tatted Robin Perfetti's Square Coaster, which is done in two rounds and she used Green Coral Sea Lizbeth thread size 20.

Marie made this simple triangular pendant pattern in the spring.

Phyllis was given the opportunity to test tat a couple of patterns for Martha Ess's new book. The train engine, box car and caboose are her own HDT and the coal car is Lizbeth Seafoam.  She thinks the Bear is Lizbeth Angel Love. The owl is from Palmetto Tat Days and the butterfly is left over thread. edging I decided to make for a couple of pillow cases. This edging she is making for a couple of pillowcase is from Tatting Doilies & Edgings edited by Rita Weiss tatted in Lizbeth Summer Fun.

Sue has round 12 completed of Renulek's Spring 2016 doily and the ruffling seems to be sorting itself out. She's working in size 80 Lizbeth Snow White and Summer Fun.

Wanda did a little 4th of July tatting using Jane Eborall’s Beaded Lock Chain pattern in Lizbeth #652 blue and #671 Red in size 20.

Motifs, Doilies, Coaster, Butterflies, Toys and Edging

Jane saw motif 45 in the Tatted Artistry of Teiko Fujito with the outer rounds done in the same colour, but she thought that obscured the rather interesting centre, so she used two colours.

Nikki hit that frustrating point where she realized she had made the same mistake...again. We've all been there, done that, when working on a doily.

Diane finished her latest Mary Knonior Spinning Wheel Glass Mat in Pond HDT which took a long time to get through due to all the other activities she was involved in. She started her 37th Spinning Wheel glass mat for 2016, in another beautiful hand-dyed thread from Yarnplayer, size 20 Campfire. Here it is completed, in all it's glory. She's hoping she has enough of the Campfire HDT to finish Robin Perfetti's Rosette Coaster (Variation) from her new book, Tatted Coasters.

Eliz managed to tat round 4 of the test tat for Jessica of the Sander's Tea Cloth, which is currently 19.5 cm, or 7.75 inches, in diameter in size 40 DMC Cordonnet. Concentric Rectangles by Edda Guastalla Bianchetti with modified corners in final round is 26 cm by 18.5 cm (10.25 inches by 7.25 inches) done in size 20 threads; Flora 204 (yellow), Lizbeth 105 (variegated), Lizbeth 663 (blue).

Marie noticed that her thread was getting a little dingy and her hands were a little blue, from beads that lost their colour. (I know the frustration. How insane is it to make beads that lose their colour?) She started again with reliable beads to make this lovely butterfly.

Martha shows us the Troll, another of the toys from her new book of tatted toys. Martha's such a tease.

Muskaan designed her own edging, a split ring 2 colour design. The design was created as a border for a hanky her MIL wanted to give a friend. She also designed a little motif for the corner of the hanky.

Stephanie tatted another of the Jan Stawasz doilies, this time all in Altin Basak thread. The next doily is one from Iris Niebach's "Doilies" book and she used thread from a tiny ball of bright yellow with no size on the label that works up just slightly smaller than DMC 80. Primrose Path by Mary Konior is tatted in pink Cebelia size 30. Then in Sulky cotton threads; a solid-colour #12-weight cotton, and variegated Sulky Cotton Blendables #12 for the chains. The last one is done in pink and grey from tiny balls without a name of the manufacturer.

Sue finished row 11 of Renulek's Spring Doily 2016 and it's looking lovely. She's little more that half way around row 12.

Doilies, Motifs, Cat, Earrings, Snowflake, Cross, Unicorn, Pegasus, Toys, TIAS and Edgings

Mistene finished round 1 of the Heart Doily using her new Summer Trail HDT from Yarnplayer, although she had to cut/fix a few times because she wasn't paying close enough attention to the pattern. She zoomed through round 2 which was a nice break from the first round.

Jane found there's a lot of tatting for the area covered in Motif 39, which is 13 cm across and she likes the effect of the variegated green. She had red thread left on the shuttle from the last motif, so she used it for this one, which continues with the chain rosette theme. This motif was a contorted mess after the second round, but the outer round sorted it out and although the book says the flowers are blue she decided on a rainbow of colours since each one was done separately.

Marthanne has been having some trials with the butterfly doily. When last we saw it she realized she had a mistake to fix and since then she has cut off row 5 and 6 re-tatted them and added rows 7 and 8. For a break she tatted this yellow cat, but she's misplaced the pattern so she can't tell us the source.

Melanie came up with this variation from Renee Campbell’s pattern Rainbow Bright Earrings for which she used size 80 thread and no beads. She finger tatted the Long Picot Earrings designed by Nina Libin in mint colour thread and used a single shuttle split ring for the second ring.

Diane has some new shuttles to use while working on her Spinning Wheel Glass Mat.

Eliz  managed to add a round to Renulek's Spring doily, but she's still way behind.

Fox is loving the Rectangle doily which is fiddly, but she likes the shape and she's already on round 3.

Margaret has the tenth Day of December snowflake done in pure white, Lizbeth thread, hoping that in December she will have all 24 snowflakes done.

Marie got a little sidetracked, but she finally finished her doily which measures 10 inches across. She tatted Maria, another cross from Lene's book.

Martha has a new book of tatted toys coming out soon which will include her unicorn. The unicorn morphed into Pegasus. I can see lots of people adding this book to their wish list.

Stephanie has been tatting, but as they're test tats she can only share a blurry picture just now. This is Martha's toy dump truck which will be in her new book. The rubber duckie is also in the new book. This is the bunny from Jane Eborall's TIAS 2016 that started back in January tatted in Lizbeth threads, size 20, except for the carrot greens which are an 'unknown' thread. She has been experimenting with colour and assorted threads tatting a Jan Stawasz doily. This first one is done in Omega thread #50 and she likes the variegated colour which reminds her of colouring with crayons. The next one is done in Perfect Quilter approximately equal in size to DMC 80 and the yellow ombre is such a nice, warm, and happy colour. She used a ball of bright yellow for this one and she's not sure of the size or the manufacturer, but it came out slightly smaller than the one done in Perfect Quilter. She used two shades of pink - those tiny, balls with no size on the label for this one. This Mary Konior doily, called, Primrose Path, is tatted in a Sulky Cotton Blendables #12-weight that has a nice lustre to it, again equivalent to size 80.

Sue started round 11 of the Spring doily, which was a bit of a surprise because she thought she had just finished 11, but it was only 10. At this size it's hard to keep track.

Wanda hosted the Tuesday Tatters and got out her vintage dishes, displayed on her lovely tatting for the visit. Becky brought this beautiful infant's dress to share with a simple ring and chain edging at the neck and arms. There is a matching ring and chain insert with a ring and chain hem. Altogether it's a charming piece.