continuing belatedly

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 This is how I feel ... 2025 is simply continuing into 2026, LOL. Not looking for anything special, anything different, anything grand. I am more than happy to continue as is. 

Since I did not prepare any special image, and I do like a post with at least one pic, let me borrow what I did for our Endrucks 1920 Project Facebook group. And all the tatting you see is by our Endrucksian tatters!!!

So wishing all who visit my blog and especially those who take the time to read and comment, my 

💗heartfelt wishes for a happy, healthy, and fun-filled 2026 with tons of creative time to fulfill all your desires! 💗

Under one of my recent posts in FB, I noticed one question - What is the Endrucks 1920 Project? 

Now that got my curiousity and I immediately clicked on it and this is what Meta AI has to say about our Project ... 

All stars on the border are tatted by
🌺Anita Schaeder 🌺Anna Bonelli 🌺Anna Tedesco 🌺Antonia Lai 🌺Cristina Reb
🌺Daniela Galli 🌺Irma Noemi Figueroa 🌺Jane McLellan 🌺Jiamrat Supapol 

🌺Krystyna Mura 🌺Lella Loops  🌺Manju Talekar 🌺Margaret Davies 🌺Muskaan 

🌺Ninetta Caruso 🌺Paola Bevilacqua 🌺Paola Emilia Rotuletti 🌺Reiko Akamatsu 

🌺Ruth Palsson 🌺Sally Biggers 🌺Silvana Buonvino 🌺Stephanie Wilson 

🌺Ulrike Klauser 🌺Winnie Ho

Majority of the stars & snowflakes are derivatives of E3 & E12 for the Tat Me Endrucks Dec2022 game and the rest are the E15 Leafy Stars which I showcased recently. Links to roundups for details are listed at the end of this post.

🌺💗🌺💗🌺

A brief recap of the year gone bay to emphasize the continuity since there are a lot of fairly big to medium sized projects underway ....

• Net Best's book that I am editing - the Glossary which I considered almost done last January with merely some samples to be tatted ... turns out there was so much more to add and improve. At present only some models need to be tatted and a bit of clean-up is required. And then to get to the chapters.
• The updating of all PDFs in our EP collection is still ongoing, though Ninetta and I have covered some ground there. This may carry on through the year.
• Since late late August, we are also compiling a tutorial resource doc dedicated to techniques and effects used in our  Endrucks' patterns and derivatives. This doc will be released very soon though some PDFs remain to be completed.
• Manju had derived the entire alphabet from E17 which I am diagramming and presenting. While she has sent me the pattern and pics for all, I have managed to finish A to N. So the rest will continue through the next several months. The HAPPY you see above is Manju's!
• My blogging might continue to be sporadic if I follow in the footsteps of 2025 and I might not be able to respond to each and every comment, though I definitely read and appreciate each. 

I lost almost six months at a stretch last year when I couldn't focus on any 'heavy' thinking (the updating came at the right time in that sense). This year I hope no such problem will loom up. I have learned to not stress myself out trying to reach a deadline - I do what I can, when I can, and how I can, to the best of my ability and circumstances .... enjoying the journey and each moment.

Meanwhile I learned a lot, read and researched, discussed with experts, and concepts became clearer, and I also received patterns and books from friends!

💗many many thanks to all of you for being a part of my journey 💗

Roundup Posts 

https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2024/08/roundup-1-stars-and-snowflakes-for.html

https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2024/08/stars-and-snowflakes-for-tatme-dec2022.html

https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2024/08/it-was-my-turn-stars-and-snowflakes-for.html

https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2025/10/leaf-to-star-spinoff.html

https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2025/12/more-e15-leafy-stars.html

ETs alit

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 Jan to March we refrained from organising any game of the month in our FB group. Both Ninetta and I needed a long break to attend to other tasks. Quite a bit of work is involved in holding a game which is not always visible. 

Instead we asked members to display their Endrucksian Tatting (ET) by taking a collective pic(s) of all their Endrucks' works done thus far. The collage they sent would be showcased as the group cover for a few days. 

We started with Ninetta's exquisite collage, but the images below are not in sequence. Several members have already gifted away most of their models.

Ninetta Caruso has now tatted samplers from all 44 of Endrucks' original patterns, besides so many derivatives!!! She tacked on the 44 samplers to an accordion book which was part of an exhibition of their association. You can read about it in her blog, and do take a few seconds to see the booklet in this video --- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X-11fHJliaA1WWBigcK51oJMGRv6Xjag/view

And her post - https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2024/04/and-offline-life.html

Lella Loops shared her lovely needle-tatted models most from past games.

Michelle Forclaz sent in her works which include so many patterns she tweaked and played with.

Margaret Davies has been participating and tweaking and designing derivative patterns, too. This is her first collage.

 

Margaret Davies graciously sent in her second collage as well.

Debra F Cox took time out to gather whatever models she had left. She used a couple to decorate the book cover, too.

Muskaan This is my first collage which I detailed here - https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2024/02/endrucksian-links.html

Muskaan This is my 2nd collage which shows many of the doilies and snowflakes. Multiples are the result of either the design process or of tweaking for presenting the original pattern.

Antonia Lai had displayed some of her lovely ET at Queensland Tatters in Nov 2023. We used her pic as our cover for the 2nd anniversary of our FB group, hence not repeated this year. She has tatted many more, including new derivatives. In fact it is her Life is Bliss butterfly from E32, that we are using in our game this month.

We thank all our lovely members who took the time to send us a pic. This is merely a sliver of a slice of the Endrucksian pie which has grown in the past few years! 

Meanwhile, I have stopped receiving notifications when I leave a comment on other blogs. Kind of crazy why some glitch or other keeps plaguing Blogger. Fortunately, one just has to wait it out.