Birgit Phelps' Romantic Heart

[donnawannatat]

This is really pretty. Thanks for sharing!

[Chessie]

Lovely! I want to try this myself :) TFS!

[Cindy Lou]

Thanks for sharing..I think I will add this to the top of my to do list..

[RuthGeller]

Very pretty!

[Sherry]

This is beautiful, thank you for sharing.

[janet6567]

Beelizabeth, for sharing your instructions for the Romantic Heart. I love hearts and am always looking for a new pattern. This is lovely; you did a beautiful job!!

[FairyTattingAndTings]

love love love

[MercyPres]

I tried your pattern and thank you. I don't do SCMR and modified to get the bottom. I used up a couple of shuttles an tried out a vintage GEMS pink in size 20 for the chains. This is a soft thread and Thread Heaven helped a LOT with all the retro tatting I did. Heart on left has rings of Lizbeth Marble size 20 and heart on right has rings of Lizbeth Butterfly Breeze size 20. My chains were so tight that after first clover I had to retro tatt and went to 4-5-5-5-5-4 on the outside chains

[Beelizabeth]

MercyPres- your hearts are beautiful. I find my SCMR more often turns out more like two chains than a ring-- whatever works. My chains work out rather loose so I have to tighten then a bit. I love the colors on the one done in Butterfly Breeze.

[Judy]

Here's one of my tricks. When I have a big pattern to do and I don't know how long to make the needle thread, I make it as big as I can without it tangling. Then, off I go. When I'm about 2/3 of the way through I look at how much needle thread I have left. If I have at least half left, I know I'll have plenty, so then every once in a while I'll make true rings using the needle thread, to use up SOME of it. I may do that at a ring following a chain. I don't knot after the chain because the next true ring will lock everything into place. Or if there is a cluster of four rings, I'd probably skip the knots after the first three, and make the fourth one a true ring, again locking the core thread for the clovers so that they stay the way I want them. Of course this trick only works if its all the same color.