A Very Canadian Tat-a-long 2023 Day 1

Welcome to Day 1 of the Very Canadian Tat-a-long! I hope you enjoy this few minutes of tatting.

A Very Canadian Tat-a-long 2023

Vicki Clarke victats@gmail.com

Terms

Rlj- reverse lock join.  Switch the threads while making a lock join by passing the ball thread through the lock join before taking up  the slack on the join.  You will need this on Day 2

C chain

R ring

Vsp  very small picot

Lj lock join.  Remember that above every lock join a very small picot is made and this is a place that we will use to join to later.

SCMR    self closing mock ring

Ss switch shuttles

Materials

2 shuttles or 1 needle

Red and white thread (about 4 yards of each if using size 20 thread)

Day 1

2 shuttles, 1 with red thread, 1 with white thread

Start with red thread

R             10 vsp 10

Add white thread for a white chain

Round 1

C             14 lj (vsp on R) 14 lj (to beginning of round)

Round 2

C             3 vsp 3 vsp 3 vsp 3 vsp 3 vsp 3 lj (vsp of last round) 3 vsp 3 vsp 3 vsp 3 vsp 3 vsp 3 lj (beginning of round)

DO NOT CUT ENDS!!!

See you tomorrow