This Thursday evening marks the beginning of the Palmetto Tatdays. This is a weekend of tatting and fun that is organized by the fabulous Palmetto Tatting Guild. Last year I ran out of time and didn’t end up sending a kit for the grab bags. This year I’m lucky that Ginny Weathers and Deana MacKenzie are taking my kits in their car. I’m happy I was able to get the kits down there in time. My big issue was getting a good picture of the project so I wrote on the pattern to come to this blog for a picture. The pattern itself is very simple but it always helps to see a picture.
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| Bottle Cap Pin Cushion |
Bottle Cap Pin Cushion
Vicki Clarke 2023
victats@gmail.com
Materials
Size 20 thread
Shuttle or tatting needle
Water bottle cap
Material- I used pashmina scarves with interfacing to
stabilize the stitches
Sewing needle and thread
Glue gun or Eileen’s taky glue
Terms
R-ring
C-chain
P- picot (consider adding beads to the picots on the chains
or changing the ring count to 4 p 4 bead 4 p 4)
Motif
Shuttle tatters wind 5 yards CTM on shuttle. Needle tatters normal tail.
*R 4 p 4
p 4 p 4 (on the repeats change the ring
to: R 4 + (previous p on R) 4 p 4 p 4
and on the last repeat join to the first ring)
C 8
p 8*
Repeat from * to * until you have 14 rings and chains then tie to first ring and hide ends
Make a running stitch about ¼ inch from edge.
Gather up material so it creates a little pouch.
Stuff with polyfill and tie off the thread
Glue the stuffed pouch into the bottlecap raw edges into the
bottle cap
I painted the bottle caps black but you may want to paint
them a different color. Alternatively,
take a piece of ribbon and glue it around the sides of the bottle cap.
Gently ease the tatted motif onto the bottle cap so the
chains are on the fabric side and the rings are on the bottlecap side. Snug it
up against where the pincushion meets the bottle cap. You make want to glue or sew the tatting in
place.
