Happy 4th of July!!!

 Happy Independence Day!

Wishing you and your families a terrific day with lots of good food, fun and fireworks.

Day 3

mlj- modified lock join (include the ball thread in the lock join 

C chain 

R ring 

lj lock join

Wind 1 yard of thread ( I used red) onto a shuttle CTM

Join to a corner picot, you will be tatting across the short side.

C 4 vsp  4 vsp 2 lj (next p) 2 vsp 4 vsp 4 mlj turn work

C 5 lj (next p) 4 lj (next p) 2 p 2 lj (next p) 4 lj (next p) 5

Join to beginning, cut and hide ends.

Change to white 

LSC lj ( to Center P of previous section) 20

R 20

Hide ends

Now it maybe obvious that this is intended to be a firecracker.  So to light your firecracker you will add a red tassel.  Or you can skip the ring and just cut at the LSC then add a bit of red colour to the ends.  Or change the ring count to 7 vsp 1 vsp 1 vsp 1 vsp 1 vsp 7  then add bits of red thread to the vsp.

Thank you for doing this tat-a-long with me and I hope you have a wonderful 4th of July!!!