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Hi All,
Here is my latest blog post link, Making Anne B's Dragons. Link to her pattern on the blog.
Also getting closer to 150 likers on the facebook page...links on the blog page (to the right) if you would like to be involved in the next giveaway.
Happy Tatting
Fiona T

I've been tatting for 2 months mostly learned from the Internet and YouTube with a little help from a friend. I love the designers on these web sites. I'm very excited to be a part of this site.

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3. COMPOSITE RINGS

3.4 The Takeda single-shuttle split ring (2000)

Michael Takeda's composite ring is also based on a the scallop shape. Like the double shuttle split ring (3.1), a first section is tatted and then the remaining space is covered with an insertion of finger-tatting using a looped double thread from the shuttle. The loop itself closes the ring, but then must be anchored so that the ring remains closed and tensioned. This produces ...

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I need to pinch myself! I am here in Denver and today we go sightseeing. There is a miniature doll and toy museum on the list, the Colorado State Capitol Building, a visit to the Hobby Lobby and who knows what else might turn up.

Dear husband snuck a card congratulating me into my suitcase without my knowing it! What a sweetie.

I am very much enjoying the weather and the mountain clouds. The last time I was here I got altitude sickness (Denver altitude is one mile high), ...

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Just started the last round - which is the same scallop round as before. Will post a picture when it is all done. Done in Aida size 20 the large doily will measure about 17 inches in diameter.

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It's a long drop for the goslings.

Oh my! This is it. Thursday I fly to Denver, with one of my best girlfriends for company! We will be there from Thursday to Sunday with straight through flights for short travel time.

I am practically delirious. According to the information I got, my Hyperbolic samples are "prominently displayed".

Come on Thursday!

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3.3 Single-shuttle split rings

The single-shuttle split ring, SSSR (K. Solomon 1990s), is similar in concept to Dora Young's knotless method ring. However, it is based on a partially closed true ring/scallop, so the size of the ring is fixed and closed before the final stitches are added. The advantage of this SSSR is that a line of scallops can be made in the same section of the work, and the exposed core thread covered later ...

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3.2 This knotless method ring of Dora Young (1970s) serves as a split ring, but includes a ball thread.

Like some mock rings, it consists of a chain and a measured length of bare core thread. These are tensioned and closed into a ring shape before the final stitches are added. The bare core thread is covered lastly with the hitches of the knotless method. This KM ring was developed before the KM chain (split chain), ...

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3. COMPOSITE RINGS

These rings have been developed over time as solutions to problems which could not have been solved by the techniques then available. Their make-up and applications vary.

3.1 Double-shuttle split ring

Since the 1920s the split ring using reverse stitch and two shuttles has been used to exit a ring at a different point from where it began. It is also a continuous ...

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Tonight I took one of my rayon yarns to wind it around peace of cardboard ma it easier to work with it. Well I hat to leave room just for a min or two. My cat was sleeping on the bed. On my way out I told him: "don't you even dare"....I wasn't absent long but when I got back I found this

And my cat? Well he was lying on the bed...looking all cuddly and innocent.

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This is my Classic Doily done again in brown and ivory (my husband's favourite...and we have to keep the men sweet don't we?). The last time I did it in these colours I simply did all rings ivory and all chains brown, but this time I wanted to do blocks of colour.

The doily could be finished at this point and, done in size 20 cotton, it is a decent size, but I shall carry

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2.4 Onion rings

There are several ways of tatting onion rings, one of them involving true rings. The others appear to be layers of concentric circles when, in fact, only the central ring is a true one. Each outer layer around this is a mock ring composed of two chains that fit snugly and link to it via tiny picots. Usually the whole onion construction appears to enter and exit at the same general point.

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The technique used in the formation of these mock rings was published in 1853 by Mrs Pullan, a well known American authority on needlework. Mrs Pullan is known to have substituted a needle for the shuttle and stored her extra thread on a shuttle rather than a ball. [Refer to pages 56 and 57 of Rhoda Auld's book, 'Tatting', 1974.] By doing this, she could easily tat rings on chains, and close any mock rings ...

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