Motifs, Doilies, Necklaces, Earrings, Bookmarks, Snowflake and an Edging

Frances has decided to join the challenge and she begins with 3 motifs from The Complete book of tatting by Rebecca Jones, followed by one from Tatting Patterns and Designs by Gun Blomqvist and Elwy Persson. To finish it off she did Elizabeth's Little Cross.

Heather found getting her entries into and out of the state fair was a bit of a challenge but her piece won a second place. The pattern is from the book Tatting from Burda, made in size 10 thread and measures about 40 cm across.

Joy finished one of Lynn Morton's patterns, a lovely tatted choker in size 20, that she thinks is a bit thick and might look better done in size 80 but she was trying to use up some of her stash. Now that it's done, she doesn't think it's either a style or a colour that would look good on her. The next one comes from an old adapted edging in New Things Happen to Tatting and she did matching earrings to go with it. The design is longer than the choker and has an adjustable chain on the back to give it another couple of inches.

Marta made this pendant using a plastic keyring and 5 amber beads.

Mary tatted another bookmark in shades of a pretty green with sunny yellow flowers in the middle.

Diane has 4 of the outer round motifs done which means she's nearly a quarter of the way through it.

Fox has taken another stab at one of the snowflakes from Jon's new book. Literally. And she has the scars to prove it.

Gina tatted an edging from a Norma Benporath booklet and while the end results is pretty enough it has a very odd sort of construction. I think I'd ditch the central ring on the flower in favour of a mock ring with rings thrown off.

Katherinne has has a busier semester than anticipated so she hasn't had much time for tatting other than Jon's Merriment Doily, in Lizbeth Victorian Red size 10 that she is working on.

Wanda made a bookmark for one of the friends that she went vacationing with. Never mind that the "book" it will be used in is a Nook.

Dragon, Leaves, Butterfly, Heart, Bookmarks, Doilies and Motifs

Stacy tatted this dragon as a bookmark for her not-really-a-nephew Joey. She wasn't sure about the beads, since it was intended as a bookmark, but it really needed them.

Mary fell in love with fall colors and decided to make a bigger maple leaf, so this one's a bookmark.

SunshineCraft tatted a little onion ring butterfly from Tatted Butterflies by Adelheid Dangela and discovered that sometimes onion rings are concentric rings and sometimes they are rings surrounded by chains. She tried it the first way and then read the instructions and did it with chains to get better results.

IsDihara shares Palmetto's tribute to Myrtle Hamilton along with a tatted heart by Terry McGuffin that was worked from one of Myrtle's patterns that had been modified to incorporate split rings.

Cindy is working on another "Flowers" bookmark from the Tatted Bookmarks book from Handy Hands.

Diane has the right number of rings with a bit of ripple in her Yes U Can doily. She's also been working on a doily by Nancy Tracy.

Fox is tatting her own shower of autumn leaves with Frivole's Maple Leaf Pattern tatted in Tatskool's HDT, and Karey Solomon's pattern tatted in Lizbeth #40, followed by Yarnplayer's terrific new Maple Leaf design. The she did a motif from a pattern in Priscilla Tatting Book No. 2 by Julia E. Sanders, 1915.

Martha's new book Playing With Picots is now available.

Heart, Motifs, Edgings, Doily, Earrings, Bracelet, Necklaces, Shawl and Snowflakes

The Guidelines

1. Permission to copy. When a participant joins they are authorizing us to copy their pictures to be shown on the challenge blog.
2. There is no need to advise the Challenge Team to let let us know when you've added things to your blog. We check all of the blogs when we do an update.
3. We 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. We don't read minds, so it's up to each participant to tell us when they have reached their goal of 25.
4. We know from past experience that the challenge is addictive. If you finish and plan on doing it again let us know so that we continue to check your blog on a regular basis.
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.

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Stacy started with one motif and added a couple more. It was going so well that she did several and it was like doing almost half of her 25 Motif Challenge in a single afternoon. Really it was Jon Yusef's Heart o'Daisies in Yarnplayer's HDT "Knitty Gritty" size 30. The 25 Motif Challenge was initially started just to keep ups motivated to keep on tatting. Once you get going, it's addictive.

Jess was inspired by Diane to make an attempt at the "Yes U Can" doily and did some very large images, which she has posted, to help her count the stitches. She has the first section done and stopped to take a picture before she proceeds.

Michelle decided cool weather calls for warm gloves and plain hand warmers call for pretty tatting. The pattern is from Lyn Morton's Tatting Patterns.

Axa has been getting some coaching from Claudia on working this design which uses some interesting techniques.

Marta has finished her winter doily and it's only autumn. The doily is about 20cm or about 8 inches and she's wondering whether she should call it finished and maybe frame it, or maybe keep on working and make it larger.

Isabel has the second part of her mega project done. Miles and miles of tatting. Well, maybe not miles, but I'll bet it feels like it.

Mary has tatted a whole set of autumn earrings including the leaf design from Yarnplayer and another design from Free-Tatting.com all done in fall colours. Some beads that she couldn't resist were turned into a bracelet while a variegated pastel thread was matched with a lavender thread to make this delightful pendant.

IsDihara has posted more pictures of the Palmetto Tat Days. Some of the highlights are a tatted lavender shawl and a green scarf, the winter quilt covered with tatted snowflakes and a gorgeous silver necklace by Nina Libin. Check her blog for more goodies to drool over.

Diane has been working on the "Yes U Can" doily and after trying a single shuttle round she cut it off and tried it again with chains but she doesn't think this is going to easy around the curve.

Fox was enjoying this pattern by Jon Yusoff until she noticed she'd missed a join and had to sew it together. Adding beads to a twisty, turny pattern doesn't help a dyslexic turn of mind. This motif from a Workbasket magazine was easier on the brain and like Fox, I can't imagine doing a tablecloth out of it, I'd be bored silly long before it was done.

Gina finished sewing up a little pouch and decided it needed some tatting so she's making a baby edging in size 30 Presencia, but she can't decide if it should go under the flowers, or along the edge. What do you think?