{"id":1286,"date":"2012-05-19T09:04:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T17:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2012-05-16T21:36:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T05:36:04","slug":"1286","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in May Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’m making this one all in red and because I’ve been spending a lot of time watching lectures while studying for the CPA exams I’ve made quite a bit of progress on it. \u00c2\u00a0It’s nice when studying involves tatting. \u00c2\u00a0It’s much easier to get started for the day if I start with watching the lectures and tatting and can more quietly slip into the harder stuff (actually working the homework problems) a little later.<\/p>\n

The original Priscilla pattern called for doing this with a single shuttle. \u00c2\u00a0Make the center ring, make the rings along one side, and then come back around the other side leaving a bare thread on the back side between the flowers. \u00c2\u00a0Nowdays we have split rings, so that whole thing can be done in one pass. \u00c2\u00a0Here’s my modernized version:<\/p>\n

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Use two shuttles wound continuously. \u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

With shuttle 1:<\/p>\n

R 2(-2)x8<\/p>\n

Shuttle join to the last picot of the ring just made.<\/p>\n

*R 2-4-4-2<\/p>\n

Shuttle join to the next picot of the ring.<\/p>\n

R 2+6-6-2, join is to the last picot of the previous ring.<\/p>\n

Shuttle join to the next picot of the ring.<\/p>\n

Repeat from * 2 times more.<\/p>\n

R 2-4-4-2<\/p>\n

With both shuttles:<\/p>\n

Split ring of \u00c2\u00a02+6\/2+6 the joins are to the open (lower) picots of the rings around this one.<\/p>\n

**Split ring of \u00c2\u00a06-2\/6-2<\/p>\n

R 2(-2) x8, this can be done with either shuttle.<\/p>\n

With either shuttle:<\/p>\n

***Shuttle join to the last picot of the ring just made.<\/p>\n

R 2-4-4-2<\/p>\n

Shuttle join to the next picot of the ring.<\/p>\n

R 2+6-6-2, join is to the last picot of the previous ring.<\/p>\n

Shuttle join to the next picot of the ring.<\/p>\n

R 2-4-4-2<\/p>\n

Shuttle join to the next picot of the ring.<\/p>\n

With the other shuttle, Repeat from *** on the other side of the ring.<\/p>\n

Split ring of \u00c2\u00a02+6\/2+6 the joins are to the open (lower) picots of the rings around this one.<\/p>\n

Repeat from ** until desired length is reached.<\/p>\n

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Hopefully that’s not too confusing with the 3 different repeats.<\/p>\n

One of the big “discoveries” of playing around with the patterns in the Priscilla book was finding these patterns that call for making a series of rings with a single shuttle that are joined BETWEEN the rings to a row of picots (either on another ring or on a chain) below them. \u00c2\u00a0It’s such a neat idea for traveling with a series of rings and I like that you can’t see the bare threads at all. \u00c2\u00a0I admit that I don’t explore pattern books as much as I should, but I don’t recall seeing this sort of thing anywhere else.<\/p>\n

I also love edgings that are both symmetrical AND can be done in one pass. \u00c2\u00a0I’m thinking this would make a nice belt. \u00c2\u00a0I haven’t made one of those for a while.<\/p>\n

I’ve started another version of this in green and red that uses single shuttle split rings to put the red in the center of each flower, but I don’t have pictures, so I’ll save that to share on another day. \u00c2\u00a0I’m also working on diagramming this one out, but I don’t have it done yet, so that also will have to wait for another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m making this one all in red and because I’ve been spending a lot of time watching lectures while studying for the CPA exams I’ve made quite a bit of progress on it. \u00c2\u00a0It’s nice when studying involves tatting. \u00c2\u00a0It’s much easier to get started for the day if I start with watching the lectures […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-tatting","category-priscilla-project","category-progress-on-big-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}