In July 2023 we had the “Mark Me” game in the Facebook Endrucks group.
This game followed the ColourMeEndrucks in June 2023 (roundup here: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2024/09/colour-me-endrucks-roundup.html ), and so we suggested to our group to find a fun way to keep creating something colourful and usable, while reusing their tatted “ColourMe” edgings. And as you easily guess from the title, the game consisted of tatting bookmarks.
Also, in Frau Eleonore’s book there are many original edgings and insertions, some had already been adapted into bookmarks, and some more sprang up during this game. All are now collected in our Bookmarks directory – https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dtWGgZZEGBBwLDpJgRChAEo91l4uuXq-fxRNzKDc6r8/view
Not only for bookmarks, these patterns can also be easily embellished for bracelets, hairbands, and chokers.
Before starting the game, we put together the pics we already had to compose the cover picture for the game. Following Endrucks’ original pattern order:
Below are the models sent during the game by members of the group, listed alphabetically. I invite you to visit also the Facebook album where all models are shown - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.636439238247812&type=3
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1. Anna Bonelli - Her model is a combo of E10 and the E3 heart charm. Absolutely agree with Muskaan’s comment: Clever adaptation and use of colour placement!
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2. Brookie Heightsmen – She called it “book worm mark”, nice and witty name! Pattern extracted from E41. I am with Muskaan when she says Brookie always manages to bring in a twist and a fresh look!
3. Lella Loops – within a couple of days after the end of the game, she sent this simple corner bookmark, derived from E1 adaptation by Muskaan... I love the colour of this little heart ❤️and very beautifully tatted!
4. Muskaan – These bookmarks are part of the countless collection of E37 derivatives tatted by Muskaan, during her adventure that lasted 3 years! Read what she tells us here - https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2023/08/almost-3-years.html
She already gifted many E37 derivatives to the Project, but my feeling is that the magician may pull more rabbits from her hat!
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5. Ninetta Caruso – That was lazy tatting… I had started the E6 edging during the previous game in June 2023, it was already hanging on the shuttles and there was no need for much imagination: I just doubled the pattern.
6. Pina Pinto – I feel honoured that Pina chose to present her bookmarks (one is a butterfly, the other one looks like a blue flower), derived from E16, with the cover of my book “Tatting is a serious matter” in the background! She’s a long-time member of the group, being one of the first Volunteers. The early pdf with Pina Pinto's stepwise pics for the E16 was available since Nov 2020. Later, we reorganised it and added diagram and text, the new version is already public. For her blue bookmark she used part of the E16 edging, but it’s still only a model without a proper pattern, like many other models in the Project. But the butterfly I think is the one presented here: “E16 - Grazia Butterfly by Pina Pinto (2D or 3D)” https://drive.google.com/file/d/10mqdUjIcdRADIuGt5il0C2PUvGn0HthK/view
7. Sheetal Kakodkar – She’s a talented Indian tatter and participated with two bookmarks! The first one is derived from E18a, the second one is derived from E43, I love the interesting shapes she designed. In both she used part of the main pattern and added a tail with many techniques, which is a clever idea. Very inspiring!
8. Vani Kattoju – She’s not new to the group, nor to design, always ready to participate with enthusiasm and creativity. For this game she proposed patterns’ combos that are her original ideas.
For the bookmark which combines E3 and E8, she wrote it looks like a fun cartoon’s bookmark and asked our opinion. I agree with her, but Muskaan left her romantic point of view: “To me it looks like a small nosegay with dangling ribbons!”.
In the second picture, her tatting is extracted from pattern E12. She showed us two Rakhees tatted in sight for the Indian festival Raksha Bandhan. The larger she thinks could be a bookmark too, and the smaller one a brooch or a pendant.
In the third pic, there is a model which combines two patterns, E18a and a second unspecified one, I inked the question mark in the pic, because the E38 is my guess.
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You may have missed the time but you cannot lose the place. Just bookmark the link to the game (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1235560633606162/permalink/1631045330724355/), find the pattern which inspires you from the great number of main and derived patterns of the Project, and make your own bookmark. You will be always very welcome!
From Muskaan and me, our heartfelt thanks to all participants! And a very special thanks from me to Muskaan, an amazing master tatter and friend, and my PIC (“partner in crime”!) in this Project! 🥰
Ciao, Ninetta
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