leaves and flowers

I have a dilemma, I cannot decide where to start. Perhaps you can suggest me your preference?

Dear tatting friends,
The diagram for the design challenge is ready. Print it out and make your design.
1)Be aware that you have four motifs to join in the center, where the lines cross each other. The joining of the 4 motifs will give a further nice motif.
2) Start your design on the foot ot the top rings to be able to make a continuous round with the inner one.
You can already see a beautiful different version on Vinnie's blog
I wish you to enjoy this!
Iris

the oneround collar

This is the second try, the first one has been cutted in pieces, before being scanned. I always cut the pieces to see the space missing or advancing, but unfortunately with wool this is not so easy, because when the work gets cutted, it opens a lot and the hanging threads hide everything and extimating corrections is more difficult. Nontheless I was able to make the second piece with the supposed correction and I like it a lot. I will finish it and then I will make another one in rosa with some more corrections, for example I will make the element in the middle on the lower side bigger. Soon I will show you the finished piece.

design realisation

There were some points in the first try, shich did not satisfy me. First the little square could not be inserted in the design without an extra chain, second the clunies were hanging a bit down. So I made a second design trying to find a way to make the square perfect and a chose to put the clunies on the outer round of the flower. Tatting it I realised the the chains on the second round under the flower were too short, so I also cut away the flowers of first try and make the chains longer. So now I like the result of both. Now I will try the next one!

First try

Today I was free from babysitting and I could tat the whole day. So I had time to try out one of the 3 designs. I used the idea Jon and redid the designs on a polar grid, which I prepaired with my drawing program. But...unfortunately I'm not satisfied with the result, I have to find out, what is it, that I have to change to better the result. Perhaps you have some suggestions.

New designs

Dear friends,
the realisation of the item in wool with the wonderful Fujito squares has not satisfied me, because the tatting is not elastic like knitting, so the item does not follow the body lines. I have to find the perfect shape to make the item fit on the shoulders. I have worked a lot, but my daughters did not like it, so now I have to cut open everything and rearrange the squares in another way. My daughter Gloria said to make new designs. So yesterday evening I sat down and made a lot of new designs, from which I chose 3 which are worth to give them a try. Here they are. If some of you will try to realize one of them following the , you are free to do so.