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^IH*nga ring, •t! nnd ,_Pan ’ P«cot wi[| the double 8 partem.

> xtra (om> ^s until you this picot rhc aid of it ovcr the ■* picot to rhc shuttie

MelltoJ 4: Insi Jo a ring This i> a iMriarion on Method 3. The idea i*., ro crearc a picor long enniigh to accommod.i the ccmrc of ehe ring when it is cłoscd. As ri have to be joincd diagonalły opposite irsclf bel. srirchcs h«ive been complctcd, form it earły in ci.

Begin tarting any ring as illusrrarcd. addin.. picot to the givcn pattern. Continue the double sr. are diagonalły opposite the long picot. Then ł< behind the ring and thread on the required bead v.. a crocher hook. With the hoolc srill in the picor, pla J passive thread and draw chis through the end of I

form a loop. Remove the crocher hook and pass_

through the loop. Ease this down gently beside the other double stitches so that the shurrle thread will srill run through them aII. Make the second half of a double stitch. Finish the ring according ro the panem and closc. The bead shoułd lic in the centro of the ring.

Unfbtisbed ring, long picot and bead

Method 5: On a separata thread By using this method you can add a string of bcads bccwcen two adioining rows of rings or chains. The bcads will zigzag betwecn the rows. Bugte bcads, ricc bcads or pairs of smaller bcads will crcatc an eyc-catching effcct, whether you tat with a needle or a shutdc. Thread all the bcads in readiness and looscly anchor them with an ovcrhand knot at cach end. Begin tatting the first

of the two adjoining rows and iumkU one end of the string of bcads to the top of the first ring/chnin. Cominue with your pattern umil you nrrivc at the next point of attachment. Lcave a pair of bcads and then make a join. Continuc in this manner till you havc finished the row. Tat the second row, joining the rings/chains bctwccn cach pair of bcads on the si-paratc thread. As you work along you can adjust the tęnsion of this thread vo thnt cverything is balanccd by the end »»J the second row.

Beads zigoigging between rows

SPLIT RING

Dcvcioped around 1923 by Anne Champc Orr, the split ring did not becomc rcally popular until the 1980s. Anne Orr callcd it ‘rcverse stitch’, and dircctions for mnking it wcrc givcn in the re-publicnrions of her pattems: Anne Orr's ('lassie Tatting Patterns (1985) and Tatting with Anne Orr (1989). Perhaps you havc copics. Wer original books were published circa 1935 and 1940. Thcrc were, howcvcr, no guidclincs for the split ring’s Application, neither was therc any rcfercnce to it in her patterns. Ovcr time rcversc sdtch has also bccn callcd ‘wrong way tatting'.

Mary Sue Kuhn renamed the technique ‘split ring' and promored it in her book, The Joy of Split Ring Tatting (1984). The patterns she designed wcrc composcd mostly of lines of rings using two shuttlcs with threads of differing colours.

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