January 22 - PTG 2005 Snowflake from Teresa Woods

PTG Flake 2005 ©Teresa Woods, 2005

Abbreviations:
– picot
— long picot
+ join
Ch Chain
lj lock join
mp mock picot
R Ring
RW Reverse Work
SCh Split Chain
SCMR Self-closing Mock Ring
SR Split Ring
ss switch shuttles
TW turn work (page turn)

Materials/tools:
2 Shuttles, wound CTM
small hook (optional if shuttles have a hook or point) picot gauge (optional)

Instructions:
1st Round:
R 5 – 5 – 5 – 5 RW
*Ch 5 – 5 – 5 – 5 RW
R 5 + 5 – 5 – 5 RW*

Repeat between *’s until there are 5 ring and chain combinations

R 5 + 5 – 5 + 5 RW
SCh 5 – 5 – 5 / 5 TW

2nd Round:
**Ch 5 – 5
SCMR [ Ch 5 – 5 ss R 5 – 5 ss Ch 5 – 5 ]
Ch 5 – 5 lj (2nd free picot on same chain from Round 1)
Ch 5 ss
R 5 – 3 — 3 – 5 ss
Ch 5 lj (1st picot on next chain from Round 1)
SCMR [ Ch 5 – 5 ss R 5 – 5 ss Ch 5 – 5 ]
Ch 5 – 5 lj (continue lock joins as established)
Ch 5 ss
R 5 – 5 ss
Ch 5 lj**

Repeat between **’s around to last small chain
SCh 5 / 5
SR 5 / 5 mp leave long thread and tie together for hanger

Note from Ruth Perry: Beginners can tat this in two rounds without the split chain, by doing a Tie, Hide, Cut the thread ends after the first round, and starting the second round by joining to one of the picots of the first round.