I wish I was at Palmetto Tat Days 2024

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.  

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

To make the pincushion:

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.