This is the pattern for the heart I showed a few posts ago. I you have any questions please let me know.
Ruffled Heart
Vicki Clarke
drvmc2003@yahoo.com
2009
Ra- Ruffled sets- {3 1st ½ stitch, 1ds}
Rb- Ruffled sets- {1ds, 3 2nd ½ stitch}
Lj - lock join
SLT- shoe lace trick
Wind 2 yards on shuttle CTM
R1: 1-1-1-1-1-1 mp
Round 1: Ch 6 lj (to 1st picot on ring) 6 X each time lj to next picot
Round 2: Ch 8 lj (to space above lj) 3 X, Ch 4 vsp 4 lj, Ch 8 lj 2X DNRW SLT *
Round 3
R2 4-4-4-4 RW
Ch 6 RW
R3 4+4-4-4
R4 4+4-4-4
R5 4+4-4-4 RW
Ch 6 RW
R6 4+4-4-4 DNRW lj (to next space above lj on round 2) SLT #
Ra 17 X lj to vsp on Round 2
Rb 17 X join to base of ring 2
*Special note when you do this step make sure to maintain your direction of work. It’s really easy for the rose to flip sides until you make the lj at ring 6.
# instead of doing the lj and SLT separately you can accomplish the same task by pulling up the ball thread and pass the shuttle through the loop as in a normal join.
Pull up the ball thread until it pops out the other side. This locks in the stitch and switches the threads at the same time. Don’t do a 2nd ½ just go into the next stitch.
I've been working crazy hours for the last few weeks in other clinics so I haven't really been able to finish a post. Here's some pictures of what I've been working on for the last couple weeks. The leaf is Sherry's (lady shuttlemaker) design and thread. The rest is from Karey Solomon's book Tatting for the Tree. I really enjoyed the patterns in the booklet and the pictures don't do them justice. All the thread is from Sherry.
I was in Mount Tremblant, Quebec over the weekend (can't afford to go in the winter) and was getting coffee when I saw this bird. Guess what its for...to squeeze lemon for your tea! The lemon wedge goes in the bird, you press with the handle and then pour the lemon out the beak! Isn't this neat?
