This is a very pretty little motif that I designed some time ago when I learned to do self closing mock rings. It is a two shuttle design and the final finishing off is a little tricky as it necessitates finishing into a very tight corner. You are most welcome to try your own methods if you think of a better way to do it!
MATERIALS
- Two tatting shuttles
- No. 40 crochet cotton
SIZE
- 4.5 cm wide and 4.5 cm high.
- Wind two tatting shuttles each with about 3 metres of thread (this will be ample) and do not separate from each other.
- About half way between the shuttles, fold the thread in half and leave a loop of about two inches long - enough that you can put your shuttle through the loop.
- SH1
WITHOUT MAKING A LOCK STITCH OF ANY KIND make a normal chain of 4 DS, do not RW. - SH2
R 8 DS, P, 8 DS, cl. R, do not RW. - SH1
C 4 DS, do not RW. - Repeat Steps 4 and 5 until there are 7 rings with a chain between each Ring, and the final 4 DS chain after the last Ring.
- Put Shuttle 1 through the loop you left at the beginning and pull it up to form the Self Closing Mock Ring (SCMR).
- Climb out of the centre Ring with a split ring of SH1 8 DS/SH2 8 DS, do not RW.
- SH2
R 4 DS, 9 P sep by 2 DS, 4 DS, cl. R, do not RW. - SH1
C 4 DS, J to last P of previous R, 4 DS, P, 4 DS, J to P of next R of centre, do not RW. - SH2
R 4 DS, J to free P of previous C, 2 DS, 8 P sep by 2 DS, 2 DS, cl. R, do not RW. - Repeat steps 10 and 11 all round the motif and use the same technique as you would use to finish the single ring daisy motif (the one of a number of rings facing outwards from the centre and joined to one another by a picot) to join the free P of the last C to the 1st P of the 1st large R of the outer row.
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