GreyTatter

These are from a Snowgoose publication, done with two strands of Sulky thread. I did these as a Holiday present, and have finally gotten round to posting the picture. If anyone is curious as to the threads, please leave a comment, and I'll go scrounge in my stash and find them and let you all know.

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A pair of Peacock Hearts

The large one is done in a 20 Flora, and went to India as part of the 2007 Heart Exchange

The small one is done in a Coats Machine Quilting thread, and went to London, to see the Queen

[Update] - The Coats thread came from a local Wal-Mart, in their fabric section. The Tattinggoddess list was talking about this thread several months ago, and of course, I had to try it. There are other colors available, and the thread should be available in other stores that carry Coats thread.

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This is Ruth Perry's Celtic Snowflake 2006. I tatted it a number of times, and this one went to my Tattinggoddess Secret Santa exchange person.

It's pictured on the housewife that I made for her.

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It's a Baby Boo Pumpkin! that I grew in my garden - seeds came from KMart. It's a small pumpkin, about the size of an apple, or small orange.

Oh, you want to know about the tatting, right? Cotton perle, with orange beads. It's Wally Sosa's September tatalong project, with seven repeats of the clover, instead of 8. I didn't attach it to the pumpkin, just laid the tatting on top, so I can remove the tatting, and use it again next year.

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A new motif - If a bookmark can be called a motive.

This is a Bina Madden design, available at http://www.paradisetreasures.com/sabms.html

And I learned how to do a Self Closing Mock Ring! Actually, 12 of them in the entire bookmark.

I know you'll all curious as to why - and why the matching angel.

Well, I'm going to be a grandmother for the first time in April 2007, and I wanted to tat something for my DDIL for her pregnancy book and then for the baby book. And since we all won't know the sex until the babe makes it's appearance, a multi colored Flora 20 was called for. The angels [there are 6 of them - just not all pictured] are for the to be parents and grandparents to carry to keep mother and child safe and healthy.

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A Snowflake!

It's Winter Rose from Teeny Tatted Snowflakes by Samantha Melnychuk

Her website is at
http://www.geocities.com/sugar_lips_girl/home.html

It's not been updated for two years, so take caution.

I bought my copy of the book from ZigZag Corner, and it has some very nice snowflakes.

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This is Rigel, the key from Contemporary Tatting : New Designs from an Old Art by Judith Conners, ISBN 0-684-04278-9. It's a wonderful book, great designs, and a great section in front where she has defined and diagrammed techniques. The section on split chain is a nice one, and it's tempting me to learn how to do it, finally.
There's lots that I want to add to my tat to do list!

Yes, it's the same thread as two of the other motives - That's what happens sometimes when you like a color, and put too much thread on shuttles :-)

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It's not really a full size motif - but I had extra thread on my shuttle from the floral, and I turned to Tatting Collage by Linday Rogers. ISBN 1-86108-020-4, and found this cheerful pattern.

They are for cards, with tatting applied to them, thus the slightly unfinished look.

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This is from Martha Ess - New Critters on the Block

It's a charming little book, full of little block tatted animals - I have to do more of them, especially the flamingo. I had a request for this one from my partner who 'needed' it for her truck.

Since she usually despairs when I drag out my tatting, and show her some new technique, or tatted piece, I thought I'd do this for her first.

You can order the book from Martha at her website. http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/community.dll?ep=16&groupid=318278&ck=

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Okay, I had this lovely Flora 50, that I just had to use - You know how it is - the color and the mood coincide.

And I was looking thru 24 Snowflakes in Tatting by Lene Bjorn {Published by Akacia, ISBN 87-7847-052-8} and saw Third Day of December.

This is the center of that snowflake. Cool, huh?

The finished piece is a little over an inch in diameter, and looks quite nice pinned to a collar or lapel.

I'm now wondering about using beads in the motif, and other possibilities!

Stay Tuned. Same tat channel, some tat time :-)

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Okay, I'm going to do it. The 25 motifs in a year - shouldn't be too hard, right? And I have the first two done :-)

My plan is to do 25 different designs, by 25 different tatting designers. And put a link to their websites on this blog, so you'll know where to find them, or more information about that person.

The website for the challenge is http://25motifchallenge.blogspot.com/

And this is my first Motif!

It's from http://www.georgiaseitz.com/2005/gerdabfly.html
A Schraf type leaf. I've done 3 now, two for the white rose, and then this one. All three look different, with this one being closest to the pattern as diagramed. It's really easy to get lost in that pattern.

I promise, the next motif will be one I haven't done before!

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