Necklaces Earrings, Motifs and Treble Clef

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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Tatteristic has tatted Mary Konior's Glass Mat In Lizbeth size 20 and would appreciate any tips you might have on joining the first and last sides together.

Cindy used a motif by Iris Niebach to practice some tatting techniques. She's wondering why everyone tats motifs and what they do with them. If they have 6 points I call them snowflakes and hang them in a tree. If they are square I do a bunch and join them together to make bigger things. If they're odd shapes like hearts or butterflies I applique them onto guest towels, clothing etc. Are there other suggestions as to what to use them for?
Ann has plans to combine tatting with embroidery and she is using a copy of a tatted edging and the fabric she wants to use, that she has sketched some possible variations on. Photo shopping images is also a great way to see what works and what doesn't before you invest the time in it.

Martha has been obsessed with buttons and stone chips and nuggets recently and she has turned them into the most fascinating jewelry. She's wondering is these would sell well on Etsy or if she'd just be wasting time better spent on other things. All of her pieces are unique, but is there a market? What do you think? I can see belly dancers using these as anklets and bracelets.

Sherry has a lovely surprise for everyone in her Mondo Monday Giveaway. Check out her blog to pick up your prize. These totally enchanting treble clefs use a folded ring to make the shape. This large model was tatted in Krystle's "Windbreaker" HDT. Sherry has also been challenging herself to tat with precious metals. It's difficult to work with, but it adds a new dimension to the lace.

Crosses, Doilies, Angels, Hearts, Snowflakes and Roosters

Special Note: Several of our participants create HDT and several are doing blog giveaways or have other noteworthy activities. It would be nice to include them here because this blog attracts a lot of traffic. However, this is a tatting blog and unless there is tatting showing in the picture, it won't get mentioned. So if you want to see it here - add tatting.

Alicia Alba has posted 2 more projects, a bronze and cream bookmark with a split ring border and a completed TIAS rooster. Wendy completed the TIAS and remarks that she would have used brighter colours if she had known what she was making. She used variegated green in Coats 20 for pattern of Holly & Berries by Mark Myers. Jeanie has been tatting and thought it was time to take some pictures. On the left in blue is Quantiesque from Jon's Tatsaway Blog and on the right in wine and pink is Lattice Heart by Birgit Phelps and the bottom motif is a Paw Print by Nancy Tracy.
Sunshinecraft was holed up in a training room for a couple of weeks without internet access, which was a good thing because I've had the wrong link to her blog and while she was tatting and posting I kept checking her blog post for January 1st. So here to play catch up are all the lovely things she has been doing. She made this lovely pink motif from a Japanese tatting book to practice her Josephine knots. Then to get comfortable tatting with beads she made these beaded edgings using some chunk silk she had from making thimble rings. She is working on a collar using DMC perle 12 The collar has 13 small motifs making for lots of ends to hide. She got down to the last row around the collar and worried that she wouldn't have enough thread to finish it. No worries. here is the completed collar and enough thread left over to tat a little butterfly. Now she's on to practicing cluny leaves and her strips of nice looking clunies are getting longer.

M tatted the Third Day of December from the book 24 Snowflakes in Tatting by Lene Bjørn in Lizbeth size 20, col 613 & col 623 & col 680. It looked so much like a flower when she started it that she began again in floral colours. It's a stunning motif. Wouldn't a bunch of them together look lovely as a shawl? Wouldn't a shawl like that be a stinker to wash and block?
Linda has a funky rooster, created when she did the TIAS and forget to change threads and didn't add a bead, otherwise he's perfectly funky.
Ancolie's new motif is Améthyste" by Pascale Provost.
Aileen is having a giveaway and among the prizes are a tatted lipstick/chapstick holder in your choice of colour and a crystal angel handphone dangle with lace wings. Check her blog for details.

Diane tatted 3 "Christina" from Tatted Bookmarks - cross-shaped by Lene Bjorn
from one 50 yard skein of hand-dyed thread size 30 "Forest" from Yarnplayer. The next cross pattern is from Tatting Patterns by Mary Konior and the thread is Parlak Oren Bayan Dantel Ipligi #063, size 50. The last cross in the same thread is "Monica" from Tatted Bookmarks - cross-shaped by Lene Bjorn. Ellen tatted Isabel's name in pink variegated Gutermann Sulky Cotton 30 thread which is one of her favourite threads. The four ATC fabric cards have the tatting glues in place. A fifth card has already been traded. Here is a tree full of really cute tatted owls. The hand sewn fabric tissue holder is decorated with a section of scrap tatting Ellen received from Jon.
Jeff, like a number of other tatters has been busy working on a Mary Konior design in her memory. What he chose to work on was Windmills. Why the design is called windmills isn't apparent until you see several of them joined like in the doily Jeff created. One motif shows a spiral effect, but when joined together you do see the windmills. In addition to windmills he has completed Jane's rooster in Lizbeth size 20 in colour numbers 656 (Dark Wedgewood Blue) and 142 (Turquoise Twist), along with DMC Cordonnet size 20 (White), which turned out to be good colour choices.

Snowflake, Heart, Horse, Leaf and Rooster

Carolyn got caught up in her other interests and wasn't able to tat for a while, but she has decided to take up the challenge again with Snowflake 7 from Festive Snowflakes and Ornaments edited by Barbara Foster in an unknown size 20 thread. Agasunset found that bad weather is conducive to staying inside and tatting. She tried her hand at making some square motifs and then joined them all together to create a pendant. After a quick photo shoot she had a number of new items to add to her Etsy store.

Isabel used my rose as a basis for her flower which she worked in 3 colours of sewing thread, purple, green pistachio, and fuchsia. Don't all those colours make for a really interesting effect?

Fox tatted the mignonette heart again and it's gorgeous. The mignonette gives it such a delicate lacy look and see how the variegation happened to line up.
M has tatted the Fall Leaves pattern by Heather Johnston in Lizbeth size 20, col 100. She had a bit of trouble following it at the start, but now that she has gained experience she's not afraid to tackle more leaves. Vanessa introduces Max her mauve breasted rooster that hatched thanks to Jane's TIAS.

IsDihara has tatted her rooster in Lizbeth size 40 in color # 107 Tropical Fruit, Clark's Big Ball size 30 crochet thread makes for his body and Lizbeth size 40 in color 688 Seagreen Dark, and a proud looking cock he is.
Linda has been working on Nancy Tracy's, "Mom's Pink Doily" in Lizbeth size 20 #151 Angel's Love. She was careful to make all the bare threads of the last round the same length but it still cupped a little until it was blocked.
Alan has found that tatting in silver while very rewarding has some serious drawbacks. He tatted Dawn's horse head earrings in silver and they look marvellous.