Motifs, Hearts, Doilies, Baby Bonnet, Edgings, Dragonflies and Turtle

If you are a Canadian tatter, under 30, could you please email me at sharon at rsbriggs dot com? A Canadian journalist is working on an article on tatting for a Canadian magazine and they really want to get the perspective from a younger tatter's viewpoint.


Margaret did some holiday tatting in Crete using size 20 Lizbeth thread in white. The first one is one of her favourites from the Anna magazines dated December 1991. The next one is the middle of the Tatted 10 point Snowflake  from be-stitched.com. The third one is the Five-inch Snowflake from a book called Easy Tatting.

 

Marie used a piece of petrified palm wood for the centre of the Tall Agate design she created. Her latest pendent is made with one strand of gold and one strand of copper ("Rose Gold") sewing thread and a piece of Willow Jasper. She found a mirror which makes a lovely backdrop to display all of her pieces when she's at a show.

Lyn took her tatting to show her 5and half year old granddaughter, and the little sweetie claimed nearly all of it. Smart girl. Hearts Desire by Susan Fuller done in Coats 40 Colour 9427. Lattice Heart by Birgit Phelps tatted in DMC Perle 8, Colour 99. Kira's Star by Birgit Phelps was made in Coats 40 Colour 9427. Medallion 1157 from Old & New Designs in tatting done in Twilleys 20 brings her to 17 of 25 in her challenge.

 

Garyo liked the hexagon motif she saw on Linda's blog and found a similar one in Mini Tats to try using Lizbeth size 40. She thinks she'll do 2 more and make something triangular out of them. The doily tatted in Lisbeth #40 Spring Garden is finished but it needs blocking. She did the same motif in Olympus size 40 thread with the shuttle on the left, and with a size 5 needle on the right. The shuttle tatting looks tighter and firmer, while the needle tatted one looks puffier and of course, larger.

Kristen had a lot of time for tatting since the school year is winding down and in one week she did 10 motifs, mostly out of Gun Blomqvist and Elwy Persson's Tatting: Patterns and Designs. Many of the designs are shown displayed as a mobile. Her favourite one is the square motif. Finally she shows us a mystery project she is working on.

 

Linda's blog is overflowing with cuteness. She created an adorable teddy bear vest from Karey Solomon's Ring Around the Rosy, a Pattern full of Posies publication from 1999, using 5 repeats, 1/2 of pattern for under arms and sewen together. The front and back on the shoulders I used 3 split rings with picots Tatted with Lizbeth size 20 in 115 Springtime and the chains are 623 Raspberry Pink Lt. The Bonnet is an easy NIN (newborns in need) by Merry Higby in 2001 tatted in DMC 746 yellow.

 

Fox has something new in rainbow colours coming on. She also had an opportunity to speak to the Canadian journalist about tatting and has posted the same request on her blog as well as collected up a sampling of tatted goodies to send her so that she can see tatting first hand, up close, and personal. Then there is the mignonette motif she did just to escape finishing the hanky edging which only has 20 repeats to go.

 

Frivole liked a doily edging she did for her MIL in Lizbeth Spring Green and Tropical Punch so she used the same colours for another edging.

StephanieGrace was asked for a dragonfly, so she used Jane Eborall's pattern to make this little sweetie. Then they kept on flying away so she had to make more. Then what good is a flight of dragonfly's without Mark's turtle to keep them company.

Sue used size 40 Lizbeth Scottish Thistle to tat and edging for this pair of socks. They look ruffled, but that's OK, socks stretch to go over little feet, but tatting doesn't. They will look perfect on. Is there something wrong with me that I'm scouting out patterns to add edgings to MY socks?

Dragon, Butterflies, Doilies, Star, Motifs, Bookmarks, Edgings, Hearts, Flowers, Fairy and Bunny

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.

 --------------- 

Marie has another dragon done although she forgot to do the middle body part so he's quite skinny. Worked in two strands of Sulky, 40 wt, rayon thread. 

Anika tatted this little butterfly as her first project with split rings. She tatted the Occasional Doily in size 10 thread and now she's re-doing it in size 20 Lizbeth baby pink and ecru. She tried block tatting a snowflake from Lene Bjorn's book in Lizbeth #122 but her inner rings were too large so it turned out to be a star. 

Garyou tatted this Mary Konior motif in Lisbeth #40 on her lunch break. She did this motif designed by Randy Houtz in Pale blue and light beige Lisbeth #40 and she thinks she'll re-do it in other colours. She tatted Jane's Bookmark for her friend's birthday also in Lizbeth size 40.

Kristen tatted more motifs from Gun Blomqvist and Elwy Persson's Tatting: Patterns and Designs. She finally finished the Round Tatted Doily from Rita Weiss' Tatting: Doiles and Edgings she was working on, shown here with a ruler for size.

Bonnie has a wee teddy bear that's destined to become a major feature on her blog that has a lovely tatted collar.

Ancolie tatted Iris Niesbach's Anemone Apennina in Lizbeth thread but the corners were more rounded than they should have been.

Cindy's daughter created this camoflage green colour and Cindy tatted Mary Konior's Curds & Whey edging to make a bookmark with some pretty Lizbeth #696 for butterflies. The Peacock HDT was used to make one of her old standby bookmark patterns - "Flowers" by Jill Hanna.

Diane tatted some more Stumpy bookmarks in Mocha Mauve and Vintage Rose.

Fox has to tat 16 repeats per side to complete this hanky, but it's getting very boring. The Old Fashioned Heart designed by Etha Schuette in Valdani size 12 thread in blue and yellow is pretty but with all of the bead and colour combinations she was in a hurry to finish so she could do another. She's wondering if the second half of the edging will show an improvement in her tatting. She has noticed that paying attention to each and every stitch has resulted in a change in the way her tatting looks.

Frivole has finished her edging done in the Altin Basak 50 variegated thread.

Jess used Tatilicious Size 40 Blue Ridge for this piece and thinks she might use Log Cabin Blues for the outside.

Martha will be teaching Love of Beads Heart at Palmetto Tat Days. There is also a class in "An Inverted Tatting Garden." with lots of little patterns using the inverted tatting technique. The fairy she showed before uses both inverted tatting and the daisy picot stitch. Just in case anyone finished the fairy she has bunny that uses the same techniques.

Sue's dragon was enthusiastically received by the 4 year old. Grandma loved the bookmark, and her friend was surprised that she received a cross too.

 Vanessa's mug rug is a variation from a Julie Sanders' pattern.