4th of July Tat-a-long!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Very Canadian Tat-a-long!  I had a great Canada Day!

However we can't forget our friends to the south!  So we will start another tat-a-long!

4th July Tat-a-long Day 1

 

Materials:

Size 20 Lizbeth in red, white and blue.  (Any size will do but it means you will have to fiddle a bit with the beads)

Size 10 beads in white, black, red.

Terms

C- chain

R- ring

vsp- very small picot

lj- lock join.  Make a lock join by using a crochet hook to pull shuttle thread through the joining space.  This creates a loop and you pass the shuttle through the loop then tighten to remove excess thread.  In these patterns a lock join is often joined to the space between chains.  Where to do the lj is indicated in brackets.  For example lj (C2 & 3) means a lj in the space between the 2^nd and 3^rd chain.

mp- mock picot

rw- reverse work; turn the tatting towards you to change the direction the chain is facing

SCMR- self closing mock ring.  See http://www.janeeborall.freeservers.com/SCMR.pdf for instructions.

 

Wind 1.5 yards of blue thread on shuttle CTM with ball

Needle tatters normal tail

 

Center

R1        6 vsp 6 vsp 6 vsp 6 mp

 

Round 1

C1        4 vsp 4 vsp 4 lj (vsp)

C2       4 vsp 4 vsp 4 lj (vsp)

C3       4 vsp 4 vsp 4 lj (vsp)

C4       4 vsp 4 lj (mp) 

Round 2

C5       4 lj (vsp C1) 3

SCMR             8

C6       5 lj (vsp C1) 6 lj (vsp C2) 4

SCMR             8

C7       4 lj (next vsp C2) 6 lj (vsp C3) 5

SCMR             8

C8       3 lj (next vsp C3) 4 lj (between C3 and C4)  hide ends

For tomorrow you need 1 yard of red thread on shuttle CTM with ball.