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25 Motif Challenge

Here is #1 of my 25 motif challenge. I got this pattern on Beverly's website www.bellaonline.com

I believe the way I received this pattern was through the online tatting group, but not for sure. Anyways, I printed it off, and then tried to go back to the site while I was working on it cause I didn't have a pic to go by. Well, I couldn't find it. lol

I tried to follow Beverly's instructions, but I messed up,,and had already had to restart it three times, so there was no way I was going to start over again. lol Anyways,,this is what I come up with. I don't remember what the pic looked like so Beverly I hope I done ok with your pattern.

Design Doodles

I have meant to post this for some time now. I was playing around with the Josephine Ring,,,think that's what it's called and made this design. I call it Design doodles cause I was just doodling around with a design. lol

Lesson 9

In my design tat group Sharon gave us this picture of a snowflake. We uploaded it into our drawing program and went to work on coming up with a design .

So this is my design from that picture. Hope you can see it, it's kind of small.

And here is what I've got tatted so far. I still like the outer edge having it completed.

Design Tat Lesson 8

I am finally about to get caught up on my lessons. The next lesson was to use whatever Ring count we used in our design and make a cloverleaf and trefoil. Of course I can't use the same Chain count as in my design but this is what I came up with.


Some people call both of these cloverleafs or trefoils but usually when the outer rings are smaller than the middle it's called a trefoil. I am learning so much, when I heard my fellow tatters talking about trefoil in a pattern I had not a clue to what they were talking about. Now I know. lol

Revised Design

In my design tatting group Sharon suggested to me to change the outer rings. I took her advice and did the small, small, large, large as she suggested. I also enlarged the center ring that attaches to the first round. I am so pleased with the results. Thank you Sharon!! You're a great teacher!

Copyright©2009 Thelma Bradshaw

Failure with Success....Finally!

Well, as you can see another failed attempt. So I took the pic then cut it off the motif. I refuse to be defeated. LOL!!

I got so excited over this trial piece. I done a few different things to it to decide what looked better. Finally , I think I will be able to make something with this.

Excitement going on here,,I am doing the happy dance. I finally was able to come up with my first design. How awesome is that! Copyright, 2009 Thelma Bradshaw