Bracelet, Motif, Booties, Heart and Bookmark

Agasunset was challenged to make a tatted bracelet to resemble one made from chain links.
Liyarra tatted Myra Piper's pattern from her book Tatting in Tourmaline by Yarnplayer, Size 40.
NancyD missed a row in tatting this baby bootie which resulted in a preemie baby bootie, not at all what she wanted.

Fox has been using her new Pop A Bobbin shuttle and tatting lots of little roses for the border of her bonnet. From all the reports we're hearing this is becoming a very popular shuttle.
Heather has taken on a personal challenge to design a heart a month and here are January and February.

Sherry was doing some free form tatting and made this little number in silk.

Shirl tatted this cerulean bookmark in Lizbeth size 20 in Blue Med. col. 651 and is offering it in a giveaway.

Doilies, Crosses, Butterfly and Lace Slippers

Dale Marie has been working steadily on the doily for her mother and she's finished all of the motifs. Now she just has to add the outer round of edging.
Agasunset is having a giveaway for this burgundy bracelet. She was asked to make a goth necklace with a cross and this is the result. She designed a couple of cross variations of her own in time for Easter. Wanda got a little tatting done this and made Sherry's "Hope" butterfly in shades of brown and gold Lizbeth size 20.
Diane had to try out her new Pop A Bobbin shuttle and used and edging from Mary Konior's Tatting Patterns. The thread is Flora, size 20, color #228.


Fox is finding that not working with the specified materials is causing problems. The 4 small beads instead of the one large one suggested are moving around a lot and working with 2 strands of thread has it's own difficulties. If you have the March/April 2010 issue of Piecework magazine check out the vintage edging by Fox the Trimmings section.
Jeff has the next round on his windmills doily finished but he's run out of thread. So now he has to decide if he wants to do another round or just end it here and add a finishing edging.
Kathy has been asked recently about the pattern for her Victorian Slippers. Although she kept notes when she made it, it's not the same thing as a pattern, but she has plans to turn it into a real pattern.
M shares with us Motif 40 from the book The Tatted Artistry Of Teiko Fujito by Teiko Fujito, tatted in Lizbeth 20, col 671, Christmas red.
Marty used multi-colored metallic Oren Bayan thread and over 350 mini-seed beads for these earrings and Pendant. The beads are so tiny she couldn't even get a size 16 hook in them.

Doilies, Egg, and Butterfly

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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.
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Dale Marie was nearly finished the Iris Niebach doily she has been working on when she got her new Pop A Bobbin shuttle and she had to use it right away. Here it is with her Silent Tatter and another of Iris' designs; Delia from Tatted Doilies being worked in Lizbeth size 20 Antique Violet. Agasunset started with an edging and adjusted it to suit her purpose, then re-tatted it with acrylic beads. The final result was more Goth than she wanted but still nice.
NancyD posted a reminder that April 1st is International Tatting Day.

IsDihara tatted Easter Egg No 5 from Tatted Easter Eggs by Kirsten Wind Hansen. It's tatted in Lizbeth size 40 in Marble, color 121 for the rings and DMC Cordonnet Special size 40 in Ecru for the chains. Twitter, one of Sherry's butterflies, was tatted in Lizbeth size 40 Marble colour 121.
Heather has been under the weather and didn't get much tatting done for Tatting Tea Tuesday. That, and having the hooks pull out of 2 Aeros and the subsequent Super Glue accident as she tried to repair them.

Bookmarks, Edgings and Hearts

Brigitte finished two bookmarks made with Star Gem Size 30 thread. The heart is a pattern from Cathy Bryant's book "Tatting" with an added the little ring at the bottom to give it more of a heart shape. The lavender and green variegated bookmark is Jon Yusoff's design called Chinese Coin Bookmark and that finishes her 25, but she plans to start again.

Linda finished her block for the Palmetto Fund Raising Quilt. The tatted sections include Jon's beaded dragonfly and her heart, the basket from a Dover Tatting Book and the humming bird by Karey Solomon from her Tatting Times. Mr. Hedgehog is a pattern from Nancy Tracy and the butterfly from Sherry Pence, while the center medallion is from Patti Duff's Tatting Motifs. The spider is made with beads and chains for the legs. The purple edging is Linda's own design with split rings and chains and the edging below is from the book, Traditional Tatting Patterns edited by Rita Weiss, tatted with Star No. 80 Thread.

Fox has finally put her TAT package in the mail and as a treat she started working with some delicate pink Star cotton, tatting Mary Konior's pattern, called "Beaded Braid". Star is a vintage tatting cotton roughly size 80 which seemed a little thin, so Fox is using 2 strands to get something closer to a size 20 and so far it's working out quite well. Jeff used a new copper shuttle from Sherry and Lizbeth size 20 thread in colour #125 Seascape to tat one of Mary Konior's Masquerade motifs which he plans to make into bookmark.

Heart and Names

Bonnie tatted Susan K. Fuller's Heart's Desire pattern using Tatskool's size 20 ChocoRaspberry.

Ellen has been busy tatting names for leaving colleagues.

Doilies, Earrings, Bookmarks, Snowflakes and Motifs

Dale Marie joins the challenge and she is currently working on an Iris Niebach doily covered with hearts as an Anniversary gift for her mother.
Tattips has posted a picture of a pair of earrings. She used Lizbeth size 20 in Butterfly Breeze colour for these experimental earrings. I wish my experiments came out this nice.

NancyD is ready for spring. 'The Rose and Leaf' is a pattern by Lisa C. Trumble 1992 and the other one is by Julie Patterson 'Spring Flowers Bookmark'.

Wendy has a new Pop-A-Bobbin Shuttle that she has been trying out along with a new way of tatting. Can you tell which butterfly was done which way? No? Neither can she.

Jeanie has tatted Anne's Minor Norwegian Dragon which she says is cute and fun to tat.
Cindy has discovered that the 25 Motif Challenge is as addicting as we told her it would be. Here is the Flowers bookmark by Jill Hanna from the book Tatted Bookmarks from Handy Hands in her favorite Lizbeth color "Carribbean", size 40. She then used the same pattern to experiment with other threads. As you can see in the picture she tatted it in Perle Cotton, Size 12, and of course there was Lizbeth 'Carribean' which was size 40, Krystledawne's 'Be Mine' in Cebelia Size 30 and Blue Variegated Crochet Cotton, Size 20. That's a great way to see the difference in thread sizes and the impact of variegated threads on a design. If you want a better look, Cindy also posted up close shots of the threads with a dime for perspective.
Katherinne's newest book is Vida Sunderman's Tatted Snowflakes, so she has been tatting a flurry of them. She's practicing climbing out of centre rings using a split ring on these. The "Ribbon-Floss Snowflake" and the "Tiny Snowflake" were tatted in size 20 Lizbeth thread in the color "Victorian Red". Royal crochet thread in "Bridal Blue" size 10 was used for "Trefoil" and "Ribbon-Floss". The "Flower Snowflake" isn't wanting to lie flat, Maybe it needs some serious 'time out' on the blocking board to make it behave. Katherinne has also joined the ranks of people offering HDT. She is having a giveaway of HDT so if you want yours you better speak up quick.
Diane has just finished round 7 on the Hostess Set Doily from Tatting Patterns by Mary Konior using Oren Bayan size 50, #066 and it's almost done. She has received lots of goodies in the mail including some of Marilee's Purple Punch HDT, and a beautiful stained glass pendant. In addition she has a new Cherry wood Pop-A-Bobbin shuttle to play with. That will keep you out of trouble for a while.
Fox has to do 10 of these adorable rosettes for the border of the bonnet, but she's counting all of them as 1 of 25.
M tatted Milky Way from the book Tatted Snowflakes Collection by Jon Yusoff in Lizbeth 20, col 624, raspberry medium.