Edgings, Leaves, Motifs, Bracelet, Pendants, Earrings, Doilies, Cross and Butterflies

Jane isn't fond of edgings that combine tatting and crochet like 91 and 92 and she's not sure she did the last row on the top one correctly, but it can create different effects. She liked the look of edging 93, and liked it even better when she realized that it is tatted in one pass. Edgings 94 and 95 use 'Victorian sets' of 4 first half stitches followed by 4 second half stitches, but she prefers the effect just on the chains.

Marthanne found this Maple Leaf Motif by Tammy Rodgers aka GreenFuzzer from 2001 and tatted it in Lizbeth's Autumn Spice # 136, size 20. A perfect pairing of thread and pattern and just the right size for tatting during a football game.

Elsa tatted her fourth design combining tatting and needle lace and the long picots in the centre provided a good support for needle lace overlay. This celtic bracelet was designed to match the other celtic pieces she made. The set ready for wearing has a pendant, earrings and bracelet.

Melanie likes the tight centre of this motif from a Workbasket magazine which uses trefoils of smaller rings all joined to each other and she thinks it would make a nice tablecloth.

Diane is loving working with the size 80 thread, Raspberry Pink Med for this Spinning Wheel. Since she was subbing, she didn't have much tatting time, but every little bit helps. The Raspberry Spinning wheel is done, and now she's on to one in Lizbeth #712, Kelly Green Med, also size 80. She's making slow progress on this Spinning Wheel as she and her sweetie took time out to celebrate their 36th anniversary.

Eliz explains the differences with tatting right handed or left handed especially while paying attention to front side/back side work. Playing with Muskaan's TWOT she worked pat of a wreath. Then there was the challenge to start with a different ring.

Marie loves finding old clip earrings and this is one revitalized with tatting. She has started several collections and thins one is called Royal with royal blue beads. Another Royal variation. The cross by Lene Bjorn is called Malene.

Muskaan added some beads to a wreath segment bracketed by a couple of laurel leaves it would work well as a necklace or choker. Fun ways to play with tatting. This butterfly glued onto a book ribbon makes it longer and keeps it from fraying. Rachael Mohler’s Hen n Chick Square Motif done in a nice fat thread makes a good coaster. Her first Hens and Chicks edging. A small butterfly project on Craftree is still being perfected. Tattingweed’s Crinoline Doily is giving her much more thought for the TWOT series.

Edgings, Doilies, Butterflies, Crosses, Cupcakes, Pendants and Techniques

Jane thinks edging 88 could be worked directly onto fabric instead of onto a crocheted 'header'. Edging 89 is a rings-only pattern which she'd call frothy and she thinks it would work better as an insertion than an edging. Edging 90 is pretty but pedantic, with a lot of ends to hide.

Sue has the next round of her doily finished and is on the round with lots of scalloped motifs and lots of ends to hide.

Diane eked out some tatting time and made some progress on Mary Konior's Spinning Wheel Glass Mat. Being the very first customer of  PainTatPlus, Diane received a lovely note with a tatted butterfly. She loves the way this little Spinning Wheel turned out, although it's really too small to be a glass mat (coaster) at a mere 3 1/2", but she thinks this may be her new favourite shade of blue!

Eliz tatted these butterfly twins using her own pattern to empty shuttles. Then she moved on to a variation of her Small Cross Bookmark. After that she needed a bit of a challenge and made the Tatted Cupcake 2 by Nancy Tracy.

Fox is still slowly working through row 11 of her doily, whose snail's pace of completion is further hampered by the addition of beads. Oh so slow to tat, but oh so pretty when it's done.

Marie found this pretty button at a store that's gone out of business and added tatting to make a lovely pendant. She has another cross done for one of the children. She loves Lene's crosses and this is one of her, most, favourites.

Muskaan has another session posted in her This Way or Tat discovery, working with ring only patterns.

Horse, Crosses, Motifs, Doilies, Earrings, Bookmarks, Comb, Bracelet, Angels, Pin and Pendant

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1. Permission to copy. When a participant joins they are authorizing me to copy their pictures to be shown on the challenge blog.
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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 tatted a horse from Tatted Animals by Inga Madsen and named it Sterling. Her favourite cross to tat is the Split Ring Cross by Jane Eborall, a pattern from 2004.

Melanie wanted to see how the pattern used in the online class would look done in two colours and she thinks she likes it, but next time she'll make sure she has enough thread. She wanted to see what it would look like done in finer thread so she tatted it again in size 80.

Diane tatted "Maria" one of her favourite cross patterns from Lene Bjorn's Tatted Bookmarks ~ cross~shaped in size 80 Lizbeth #678, Olive Dk. She didn't feel like she tatted a lot in September, but she still has quite a few finished projects to show as well as a lot of new techniques learned.

Eliz has her This Wat or Tat Dotted Snowflake by Muskaan exercise done. Helga Schilders, a member of the Dutch Tatting Circle, based these lovely earrings on the Blooming Trellis Bookmark. Eliz started this corner bookmark some time ago using the pattern from Nancy Tracy, working in size 20 Flora. The little flower is her own addition.

Lilas plans to participate again in the Christmas market of Pôle Bijou in Baccarat again this year and she is working on a theme inspired by nature for  Earrings, Combs, pins and clasps flower, Bracelet “carpet of moss”, but she has much more to do yet.

Margaret finds Birgit's Button Angel is a very good pattern to use up thread left on a shuttle and is a variation of the Simple Angel by Birgit Phelps. They are all slight different, tatted in Lizbeth thread no 20 in Green Coral Sea, Niagara Falls and Cranberry Bush. This Pinterest challenge bracelet was tatted last month. This  time she made the rings bigger 5+5/5+5 and the chains are the same 15 ds worked in White and Green Coral Sea.

Marie has provided the instructions for creating her Dew Drop Brooch, both the bar it hangs from and the medallion. Further to the instructions for creating the brooch she has included instruction for adding beads. This one is a slight variation. This pendant is a hematite cabochon, encapsulated in tatting with 2 strands of metallic copper sewing machine thread.

Sue finally finished row 16 and only has 1 more to go, but it might take a while since she's also working on Christmas gifts.