Linda Davies is a long time member of the Online Tatting Class, master Tatter and tatting designer with several books in print. See her New Year's Doily on this page: http://www.bellaonline.com/subjects/8421.asp.
Materials: Size 20 cotton in purple, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red, 2 shuttles, Flexible PVA craft glue.
Abbreviations and instructions
Ch chain
- very small picot
all joins are down joins (shuttle lock joins) to very small picot on previous row
± lock join
SLT Shoe lace trick, work 1st half of ds without flipping, this changes shuttles
TWO turn work over like turning the pages of a book
Method: Please note all picots are very small picots.
Wind 38 inches of purple thread evenly between 2 shuttles.
Ch 1 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 4 SLT, TWO
Ch - 4 + - 4 + - 4 + - 4 + - 4 + - 4 + - 4 + - 1, tie & cut ends close, dab knot with glue.
TWO Wind 38 inches of indigo thread evenly between 2 shuttles and ± to 1st vsp.
Ch - 5 + - 5 + - 5 + - 5 + - 5 + - 5 + - 5 + SLT, TWO
Ch - 5 + - 5 + - 5 + - 5 + - 5 + - 5 + - 5 + - 1, tie & cut ends close, dab knot with glue.
TWO Wind 46 inches of blue thread evenly between 2 shuttles and ± to 1st vsp.
Ch - 6 + - 6 + - 6 + - 6 + - 6 + - 6 + - 6 + SLT, TWO
Ch - 6 + - 6 + - 6 + - 6 + - 6 + - 6 + - 6 + - 1, tie & cut ends close, dab knot with glue.
TWO Wind 56 inches of green thread evenly between 2 shuttles and ± to 1st vsp.
Ch - 7 + - 7 + - 7 + - 7 + - 7 + - 7 + - 7 + SLT, TWO
Ch - 7 + - 7 + - 7 + - 7 + - 7 + - 7 + - 7 + - 1, tie & cut ends close, dab knot with glue.
TWO Wind 66 inches of yellow thread evenly between 2 shuttles and ± to 1st vsp.
Ch - 8 + - 8 + - 8 + - 8 + - 8 + - 8 + - 8 + SLT, TWO
Ch - 8 + - 8 + - 8 + - 8 + - 8 + - 8 + - 8 + - 1, tie & cut ends close, dab knot with glue.
TWO Wind 70 inches of orange thread evenly between 2 shuttles and ± to 1st vsp.
Ch - 9 + - 9 + - 9 + - 9 + - 9 + - 9 + - 9 + SLT, TWO
Ch - 9 + - 9 + - 9 + - 9 + - 9 + - 9 + - 9 + - 1, tie & cut ends close, dab knot with glue.
TWO Wind 76 inches of red thread evenly between 2 shuttles and ± to 1st vsp.
Ch - 10 + - 10 + - 10 + - 10 + - 10 + - 10 + - 10 + SLT, TWO
Ch 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 +, tie & cut ends close, dab knot with glue.
Flash!
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Fantastic news!!!!!!!
At long last the Dora Young book, "All New Knotless Tatting Designs" has been reprinted with the addition of her biography as written by Heidi Nakayama.
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You will remember mention of the "Dora Young Knot", the bridging or split chain technique and my favorite, the single shuttle split ring. See http://www.janeeborall.freeservers.com/DoraYoung.pdf for details
In 2007 this was among the most wanted tatting books:
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Best wishes, Georgia Seitz
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