Happy Canada Day!!!!
I just want to let you know that I've been giggling to myself over this pattern. I can't find a picture but there are often Canada Day Hats where the top is a maple leaf, its kinda felt like and its kinda like the "cat in the hat" hat. That's kinda what this gnome is wearing. I couldn't get my hands on a letter C bead this weekend but I'm planning on making a few gnomes with a C going between the 2 large SCMRs in the hat. In the bottom picture the SCMRs in the beard are 2 p 2 and I added braids to the picots. Like I said I am having a lot of fun with this pattern.
A Very Canadian Tat-a-long
Vicki Clarke 2024
victats@gmail.com
Terms
R- ring
C- chain
SCMR- self closing mock ring
lj- lock join
lp- long picot
mp- mock picot
rw- reverse work. I
will only note this in situations where you don’t normally reverse work
SLT- shoe lace trick
CTM- continuous thread method, do not cut thread between
ball and shuttle
+ join (where to join is indicated in brackets)
tw- turn work, to tat back in the direction you just came
from you will turn the tatting like a page in a book
Materials
Shuttle or needle
Red, grey and a skin toned thread are needed
Wind 1.5 yards of red thread on shuttle CTM. Needle tatters normal tail
Please note you will be joining to the opposite side of the
day 1 motif
R1 2 p
2
C 8
R2 2
+(corner p on Day 1 motif) 2
C 8
R3 2 +
(base of next ring on Day 1 motif) 2
C 8
R4 2
+(next p on Day 1 motif) 2
C 8
R5 2 p
2
C tw slt
10
R6 2 +
(base of R4) 2
C 8
R7 4 +(
base of R3) 4
C 8
R8 2 +
(base of R2) 2
C 10
join to base of R1. Cut and hide ends
You are done with the red thread
Wind 1/2 yard of grey thread on a shuttle CTM with
ball. Needle tatters will change thread
on their needle
You will also need to have the skin-coloured thread on a shuttle
or needle handy
Lock Join to the base of R6
C 6
vsp 6
Set down the grey thread and pick up the shuttle with the skin-coloured
thread
R 6
+(base of R7) 6 vsp 6 before you close
the ring pass the shuttle with grey thread through the ring. This will join the ring to the chain.
You are now done with the skin-colored thread. I hide my ends in the next chain
C 4
vsp 4 vsp 4 lj (p on skin colored ring) 6 vsp 6 lj (to base of R8)
C tw slt 8 lj (last vsp made) 6
SCMR 4
C 6
lj (next vsp) 8
SCMR 4
C 8
lj (next vsp) 6
SCMR 4
C 6
lj (next vsp) 8 join back to beginning.
Cut and hide ends
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| Gnome with beard braids. |
