August 17 - Doilie by Brigitte H.

Copyright 2007 Brigitte Henneberger


Instructions:
Like the garland pattern from yesterday, this pattern is worked with two shuttles with different colours, in my example, I took variegated pink and dark green. There are always chains with rings on it.Chain: 5 (Ring: 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 cl.) 5. Change shuttles (and colour) and repeat with the changed colours.

Inner Ring:
Leave a space of both threads.
Begin tatting with a green ring (2-2-2-2-2-2), chain 5.
Change shuttle.
pink: chain, ring, chain, change shuttle to
*green: chain, ring (2-2+2-2-2-2 cl.), chain, change shuttle,
pink: chain, ring, chain, change shuttle* repeat 4 times from * to *,
green: chain, ring (2-2+2-2+to first ring2-2 cl.) change shuttle
pink: chain, ring, chain, change shuttle,
green: chain.
Knot ends together, sew in or secure it, the way you do it every times.

Second round:
Start with a ring in pink: 2-2+to the second picot of a pink ring from the inner ring2-2-2-2 cl.) chain, change shuttle
green: chain, ring, chain, change shuttle,
pink: chain, ring (joined to the last pink ring), chain, change shuttle
green: chain, ring, chain, change shuttle,
pink: chain, ring (2-2+2-2+to the fourth picot of the next pink ring from the inner ring2-2 cl.)
Tat along till you can close this round by tatting the first part of a pink chain, reaching the first ring of these round. Knot threads together and work in like you want to do.