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AnneB’s Christmas Hearts joined together to form a gorgeous square doily with classic joining wheels. You’ll need to know rings, split rings, chains and self-closing mock rings to make this one. Pattern in English as a PDF. The first link below is to the pattern for the base heart, the second link shows you how [...]
Jon Yusoff has designed this lovely Heart of Daisies, filled with lots of gorgeous flowers. A perfect way to use up small pieces of left-over threads too! Jon gives two versions of the instructions, with and without split rings. Copyright: 2008 Designed By: Jon Yusoff Online Link: http://tatsaway-patterns.blogspot.com/2008/08/heart-o-daisy.html
Linda S Davies has created a lacey heart that’s quick to make up but oh-so effective. She’s included both written and visual patterns here and it’s simple enough for a total beginner. Copyright: unknown Designed By: Linda S Davies Links:
This is the pattern that Jon Yusoff use’s as her profile picture for her blog. It’s fairly simple to do, although some of our beginner tatters may find the split ring a little tricky. Jon has provided a clear visual pattern. Copyright: 2008 Designed By: Jon Yusoff Online Link: http://tatsaway-patterns.blogspot.com/2008/10/jons-heart.html
This beautiful lacey heart is a favourite with tatters the world over. Designed by Susan Fuller it is brought to us by Georgia Seitz. Copyright: unknown Designed By: Susan Fuller Sample Tatted By: Mike M Links:
This gorgeous heart is presented by Christel Weidmann in Switzerland. Pattern is written and in German but should be relatively simple to work out. The image here is the one shown on the website, if you have made this pattern and have a more colourful image I’d love to use that instead! Copyright: date unknown [...]
Beeton’s Book of Needlework was originally published in Great Britain in 1870 by Ward, Lock and Tyler. Instructions below as per the original. For modern tatters, oval means ring and purl means picot. This strip of insertion is worked with two cottons. Work with the cotton in the left hand over that in the right [...]
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