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#13 - 100 Motif Challenge

This was tatted in #12 Finca, which I am still enjoying.  

Not bad for a fickle lover of threads. Note, the tail.  

I am improving since Miranda's bookmark came in the mail.

Now I enjoy playing around with cords  and all the
many choices there are for designing them.

Oh, yes, stating the obvious:  I did not use a picot gauge. Next time.

Snookered by a Snowflake

Val made me tat it.  Look here.  

The snowflake pattern is Julie Patterson's

Sp pretty the way Val finessed it. 

 Then there is mine:

#12-100 Motif Challenge

There is a warning in the first paragraph of the pattern, which can be found here:

This snowflake is made using Split Rings, rings

thrown from split rings, and Mock Rings, so it is

not for the faint-hearted!

Those words were not heeded by me as I can do all those techniques - only I did not realize they would be utilized so close together!

I found the pattern very challenging and quite fiddly.  Pour moi, not a fun tat.  But thank-you so much, Val for the idea and for posting your work, and thanks also to Isdihara, who contacted Georgia, who fixed up the faulty link.

Bravo Broomstick!

#11 - 100 Motif Challenge

Tatted in Altin Basak #50, a gift from Suneeti

Of course, this is one of Martha's new patterns from 'Playing With Picots,' her newest book.  

I had fun with this and was not as intimidated by the large picots as much as I was with the one, very small split chain I had to perform. Not much frightens me - but whisper "split chains" anywhere near my ears and I begin to shake!  

All that aside, I seemed to have managed this entire motif on the first go-around! Not perfect, by any means, but I am happy with the results.  Go, Fox!

It went so quickly, I had enough time yesterday to tat another bit of the 'Crown' pattern...

Edgy About The Edging

Taking a page from Frivole's blog...but I tatted the original pattern...

I cannot decide whether to tat a complete hankie border with this pattern - it is tedious going.  Using #80, after trying to tat this in #16 Finca several - about four - times -  I switched to the DMC, which for this particular pattern works much better.

It seems to call out for a crisp, highly twisted thread 

because of all the switching and the long chains.

#10-100 Motif Challenge