Motif #17 in Progress

I started this pattern about 6 months ago. I don't remember from where I took it. Probablyt from one of the antique tatting patterns on Public Domain. I have modifies it slightly. But as usually it is not what I wanted. The pattern sems to have ruffled. So I have to redo it.

Wind yarn in two shuttles using CTM.

The Central Ring
SR 1: 5-5-5-5-5/-5 (I think it will look better if I change the 5 to 7)

The next rnd:

{SR 2: 5-5-5/5 r.w.
Chain: 5-5 r.w.
*R1:5+5(join to the first picot of SR2)
Ch: 5-5
R1:5+5(join to the next picot of SR2)
ch:5-7 (using the core thread, lock join to the next picot pof SR2)r.w
Ch of 5 ds. r.w} 1st cluster.
R: 5 + (join to the next p of the 2nd p of the central ring) 5 - 5 -5.
Ch:7+5
Chain of 5ds, join to the free picot of the last chain in the prev cluster. Rep from *

Motif #12

This motif is from the book "Forty Original Designs in Tatting By Nelli Hall Youngbery" downloaded from the Antique pattern library. This is pattern no:26 in the book.

It is obvious that I have to work on joining the various chains neatly to the base of the ring.

The chains in my motif look pretty twisted. Now that I have figured out the instructions, I'll try working the same pattern in a single colour.

Motif # 9

I found an interesting tatting pattern with a needlewoven center here. 

I don't remmber which book. I completed this motif during the first week of August but I somehow never got around to posting it until now.

Motif #8

The flower and the leaf are my motif #8. They are actually pieces I discarded because of mistakes. I was going through all my tadded motif, the good pieces and the mistakes I just could not through away. I felt these two would look good tofether and here they are.

Shoe Lace Trick

Below is square motif in blue tatted the conventional way and the same motif in pink using the Shoe lace Trick.