Requirements: Sample tatted in No. 20 tatting cotton.

2 shuttles, picot gauges & crochet hook needed.

Note: I prefer to use a picot gauge by laying it along my work. If you hold it at a right angle to your work use a gauge half the width I have given. It is important the picots made in the center are the correct length.

Woven Picot Center

Wind approx. 3 meters (3.3 yds) onto shuttle 1 and approx. 5 meters (5.5 yds) onto shuttle 2 continuous thread method (CTM.) Smaller picots (sp) use a 2 cm (3/4") wide picot gauge (picots are 1 cm (5/8" long when closed).

Longer picots (lp) use a 2.3 cm (1") wide picot gauge. The picots are 1.15 cm (7/8" long when closed).

Split Ring (SR) 1: 2, sp, 2, lp, 2, change to second shuttle for next part of the split ring which uses wrapping technique not tatting (/) very small picot (vsp) 8 close ring (cl) do not reverse work (DNRW)

SR 2: 2, lp, 2, sp, 2 / 8 cl DNRW

SR 3: 2, sp, 2, lp, 2 / 8 cl DNRW

SR 4: 2, lp, 2, sp, 2 / 8 cl DNRW

SR 5: 2, join (j) to sp on SR 2, 2, j to lp on SR 2, 2 / 8 cl DNRW

SR 6: 2, j to lp on SR 1, 2, j to sp on SR 1, 2 / 8 cl DNRW

Before joining the final 4 picots weave each of them around the 4 picots already joined.

See the close up photo. If you weave the 1st picot under,

over, under, over the 2nd will go over, under etc.

SR 7: 2, j to sp on SR 4, 2, j to lp on SR 4, 2 / 8 cl DNRW

SR 8: 2, j to lp on SR 3, 2, j to sp on SR 3, 2 / 8 cl DNRW

Join to vsp on SR 1. Do not cut thread.

Round 1

SR: 10 / 10 cl reverse work (RW)

Chain (CH): 16 RW

* R: 10, j between next 2 SRs of center, 10 cl RW

CH: 16 RW

Repeat from * 6 more times. DNRW after final ch and shuttle lock join (shj) at

base of 1st ch.

Round 2

The sp (small picots) in this round are normal sized small picots used for joining.

CH: 3, sp, 16, sp, 3 DNRW & switch shuttles (SS)

* R: 3, j to 2nd sp, 7, p, 7, sp, 3 cl DNRW & SS

Using Sh 1 shj between the chains on round 1. This join can be made before making the ring if preferred.

CH: 3, j to sp on ring, 16, sp, 3 DNRW & SS

Repeat from * 6 more times.

R: 3, j, 7, p, 7, j to sp on 1st ch, 3 cl. Cut & tie