March 25 - Beaded Easter Egg by ELiz

Copyright 2007 Eliz Davis


Beaded Easter Egg

Ball and Shuttle with 21 beads on your shuttle and 35 beads on the ball thread.
We will place 3 beads in the middle picot of the rings and 1 bead in each picot of the chains. b=bead

R 3 - 3 bbb 3 - 3, cl, rw
Ch 2 b 2 b 2 b 2 b 2, rw (4 beaded picots)
*R 3 + 3 bbb 3 - 3, cl, rw
Ch 2 b 2 b 2 b 2 b 2, rw*
Repeat from * to * 5 more times. (You now have 7 completed rings followed by chains.)
R 3+ (join to last ring) 3+ (join to middle picot of first ring--try to keep all of the beads together toward the center of the motif) 3+ (join to remaining free picot of first ring), 3, cl, rw.
Ch 2 b 2 b 2 b 2 b 2 b 2 b 2 b 2 (7 beaded picots), attach to base of first ring.
Tie and deal with the ends as you choose.