No goodies yet ,25 motif challenge

So I am still waiting for my shuttles and Lizbeth thread to come. Its a good thing I haven't been holding my breath waiting because its sure taking its own sweet time. In the mean time my needles have been kept busy trying to find the perfect shamrock in honor of St Patricks day.

I do believe this makes 5, 6 , 7 and 8 of the 25 Motif Challenge. The 2 beaded ones at the top I learned from a youtube video, the link is here. One of them has picots around the outside and the other one doesn't. The video is in a foreign language but I was able to follow along. The little lone red one in the middle is a pattern by Georgia Seitz that you can find here. Its done in red because it was sitting by my work table and I was just too lazy to get up and find some green. The little lone light green one (say that fast 5 times) by the stem of the red one just didn't turn out like the picture on the pattern. For one, it was supposed to be a four leaf clover and there was no way I could squeeze another round of stitches in there. I would guess that is because of the difference of thread size,  All the rest are made from a free pattern I found at Le Blog Frivole.  These are my favorites but I was hoping to find one a bit bigger so I may try to change the counts to see if I can make them bigger.
Now I guess I just keep my fingers crossed hoping that my goodies arrive soon!

Valentines Day #1 25 Motif Challange

 I know I am super late in posting these pictures but here we go!! This is #1 of the 25 Motif Challange and it also happens to be my very first try at tatting! I live out of state from the rest of my family so I try to send them a lil something on holidays. For this valentines day I wanted to come up with something that I could attach to my first craft obsession... beading. I found a great video on youtube from onevirtuouswoman   that taught how to tat a heart and it had a link to the pattern on her facebook page. I used some vintage J&P Coats knit-cro-sheen that I inherited from my grandma so it sure made it extra special knowing that I was using my grandmas thread and learning something that my mom always wished I had learned. These ended up being so much fun to make that I made 10 of them!!