Every Child Matters Day 2

I'm sorry the formatting of is weird but I can't seem to fix it. Materials Size 20 Orange Lizbeth Thread Needle or shuttle Continued from Day 1 C rw slt 8 tw slt 8 R 3 + (1st vsp on Round 1) 3 C 12 R 4 vsp 4 C 8 MR 2 C 6 MR 2 C 5 lj (vsp on R) 6 lj (2nd vsp on Round 1) 16 MR 2 C 4 R 4 + (3rd vsp on Round 1) 4 C 8 R 6 + (above next lj on Round 1) 6 C 8 R 4 + (4th vsp on Round 1) 4 C 4 MR 2 C 16 lj (5th vsp on Round 1) 6 R 4 vsp 4 C 5 MR 2 C 6 MR 2 C 8 lj (vsp on last R) 12 R 3 + (6th vsp on Round 1) 3 C 8 slt tw 8, join to beginning

Every Child Matters Day 1

Every Child Matters Day 1 

Vickii Clarke 2021 

Materialss: 

Size 20 Orange Lizbeth Thread

Terms are on yesterday's post

Shuttle tatters: 3 yards on shuttle, CTM with ball

Needle Tatters: regular tail 

R 8 vsp 8 vsp 8 vsp 8 

C 8 vsp 4 vsp 4 lj (1st vsp) 8 vsp 8 lj (next vsp) 8 vsp 8 lj (next vsp) 4 vsp 4 vsp 8 lj (to beginning)

 Do not cut ends See you tomorrow!

Thee pattern this year is aimed at highlighting Orange Shirt Day (September 30th). This is a day when we honour the Indigenous children who were sent away to residential schools in Canada and learn more about the history of those schools.

Every Child Matters

This year the Very Canadian Tat-a-long be done a day early. The last 2 months Canada has been grappling with the discovery of mass graves of First Nation Children at Indian Residential Schools. The number has increased over the month of June and is now in the 1000s. In light of these discoveries I will be posting June 29 and June 30 but will not post a pattern on July 1/2021, Canada Day. The pattern this year is aimed at highlighting Orange Shirt Day (September 30th). This is a day when we honour the Indigenous children who were sent away to residential schools in Canada and learn more about the history of those schools. The thread used in the pattern is size 20 Lizbeth Thread. Terms

C- Chain R- Ring Cl rw- close ring, reverse work Cl dnrw- close ring, do not reverse work vsp- very small picot lp- large picot (around 1 inch) lj- lock join. Make a lock join by using a crochet hook to pull shuttle thread through the joining space. This creates a loop and you pass the shuttle through the loop then tighten to remove excess thread. In these patterns a lock join is often joined to the space between chains. Where to do the lj is indicated in brackets. For example lj (C2 & 3) means a lj in the space between the 2nd and 3rd chain. rw- reverse work; turn the tatting towards you to change the direction the chain is facing SCMR- self closing mock ring. See http://www.janeeborall.freeservers.com/SCMR.pdf for instructions. slt- shoe lace trick SR- split ring

Rainbow Heart for Pride

 Happy Pride

For those that don't know Pride season has started.  Last year I shared this pattern on several Facebook groups but I just realised I didn't share it here.  Enjoy!

Rainbow Heart for Pride

Lucky Squares Update

I'm still tatting the Lucky Squares.  I've made 6 but now working on tatting a border of Shamrocks.  I'm slightly under 1/2 way but I like the way it looks so far.

Happy International Tatting Day!

I was amazed to find multiple references coming up when you googled International Tatting Day.   In the past it only came up on tatting related sites but it's actually found on some of the calendar sites.  Although no site mentioned the necessity of eating chocolate as part of the ritual celebrations there was some that explained tatting.   No tattoo related sites showed up.  

Lucky Squares

There's only a few more days until St Patrick's Day but I have at least one more pattern to share.   For this project I broke out a second shuttle to make the floating rings.   I prefer to work shuttle and ball but needs must.  For needle tatters I suggest that you use Bonnie Swank's needle tatting technique for the floating rings.  Beware that the sides are not all the same and you need to pay attention when joining the 2 squares together.  Otherwise you'll end up like me pulling out an entire side.  

Lucky Squares by Vicki Clarke. 2021

Materials:

Gold thread (not metallic)

Green thread (Shamrocks)

2 shuttles or 2 tatting needles

See the pattern for Lucky Pair for the shamrock instructions.   When making the 2nd set you will join to the 1st set of Shamrocks at the picot next to where you join the shamrocks on the 1st set.  (If this is confusing see the picture).

You need 5 yards on the 2nd shuttle and 4 on the first shuttle.

Needle tatters normal tail, but where I say 2nd shuttle is where you can use Bonnie's technique.

*R. 4 +(p on small ring) 4

C. 4 p 4

R  4 +(same p) 4

C 6 p 6

R 4 +( skip one p on shamrock and join to the next one) 4

C. 8

2nd shuttle R 4 p 4 p 4 p 4

1st shuttle C 4

2nd shuttle R 6 +(last p of prev ring) 4 p 4 p 6

1st shuttle C 4

2nd shuttle R 4 +(last p of prev ring) 4 p 4 p 4

1st shuttle C 8

R. 4 +(next p on shamrock) 4

C 6 p 6

R4 +(next p on shamrock) 4 +(p on next shamrock) 4

C 6 p 6

R 4 +(next p on shamrock) 4

C. 8

2nd shuttle R 4 p 4 p 4 p 4

1st shuttle C 4

2nd shuttle R 6 +(last p of prev ring) 4 p 4 p 6

1st shuttle C 4

2nd shuttle R 4 +(last p of prev ring) 4 p 4 p 4

1st shuttle C 8

R 4 +(next pon shamrock) 4

C 6 p 6*

Start tatting from * to * to finish 2nd half.

Please note that I made the same mistake on both Squares.  There are a few sections where I tatted 4 p 4 p 4 instead of 6 p 6.  It's the same stitch count but and extra picot. The 2nd square will join to the 1st square at the 2nd picot on the smaller outside rings.  See the pic if this is confusing.

Cheers