Happy Canada Day!

 Happy Canada Day!  

Happy Canada Day!

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

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

Watch out for the color changes!

Day 2

Round 3

Chain color is white

C             4 lj (vsp) 4 lj (next vsp) 4  rlj (next vsp)  ss

Chain color is now red

C             4 lj (next vsp) 4 lj (next vsp) 4  rlj (lj)  ss

Chain color is now white

C             4 lj (next vsp) 4 lj (next vsp) 4  rlj (next vsp)  ss

Chain colo r is now red

C             4 lj (next vsp) 4 lj (next vsp) 4  rlj (lj) ss  

Round 4

Chain color is white

*C          8

SCMR    3 p 3

C             8 lj (lj) *                                             

Tat from * to * 3 times but on the last lock join make it a reverse lock join to switch to red thread ss

Tat from * to * 3 more times but on the last lock join make it a reverse lock join to switch to white thread ss

Tat from * to * 3 times but on the last lock join make it a reverse lock join to switch to red thread ss 

Tat from * to * 3 times but on the last lock join attach to the beginning of the round instead.  Cut and hide ends.

For those Canadians who are reflecting on Canada’s history today I invite them to look at this pattern from a few years ago https://victats.blogspot.com/2021/06/every-child-matters-day-1.html?m=1.  Tatting and reflection go together very well.

Have a Great Day!

See you tomorrow for Day 1 of the 4th of July Tat-a-long!