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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. NeedleDreams' Blog 2005 Online blog with photos taken by me. Tatting pattern of my desings and photos of my laces Waleska Sosa Wally Sosa
Materials:
2 Shuttles
2 colors of threads
Instructions:
This pattern use Maltese Rings. To make the maltese rings you need to join both shuttles if using 2 colors. Start a regular ring and make 1 ds. Pass the working shuttle thru the ring loop (front to back) and take out the loop from your fingers. The ball or 2nd shuttle will be in the back of your hand. Make a ds using the 2nd shuttle, the same as if you're making a chain. Pass again the working shuttle thru the ring's loop (back to front), place the loop in your fingers and make a picot. Take out the loop of your hand, pass the shuttle and make a longer picot with shuttle 2. Keep doing the same until you have the amount of picots you want. Finish with a picot made with the 2nd shuttle and close the ring.
Start the heart making a maltese ring of 9 inner picots and 9 outer picots. (9 : 9)
Ch: 5.
Maltese ring of 9 : 9.
Ch: 5.
Maltese ring of 9 : 9. Reverse work.
Ch: 8 - 10 (- 1 --- 1 - 10) x 4 times. Reverse work.
R: 5 + (to the 4th outer picot of middle maltese ring) 5. Reverse work.
Ch: 1 - 1 --- 1 - 10
TOR: 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1.
Ch: 10 - 1 --- 1 - 1. Reverse work.
R: 5 + ( to the 5th outer picot of middle maltese ring) 5. Reverse work.
Ch: (10 - 1 --- 1 - 10) x 4 times. Join to the 1st picot. 8. Join to the base of the 1st maltese ring.
Cut and hide ends.
