4th of July tat-a-long!

 Welcome to the 4th of July tat-a-long 2024

For the next few days leading up to and ending on the 4th of July I will post a small section of tatting.  

 A 4^th of July Tat-a-long 2024 Day 1

Vicki Clarke         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

White thread needed

 

Shuttle tatters wind 1.5 yards of thread on shuttle.  Needle tatters normal tail

 

R             3 lp 3

C             6

MR         1 p 1

C             6            

*R          3 +(lp) 3

C             6

MR         1 p 1

C             6*          

Repeat from * to * until you have large rings and 5 small rings.  Cut and hide ends. 

Make one motif