Bloomin' Ice Drop

I couldn't post yesterday. I was too busy designing another Ice Drop! Honestly, I was so caught up in what I was doing, I didn't realize it was dinner time. Luckily, I had leftovers that warmed up quickly!

As I was working on my Spring Garden Ice Drop the other day, I got to thinking about how I could adapt it.

And now my little Spring Garden has bloomed!

Copy and past doesn't work very well with Blogger, but I still haven't figured out how to attach a PDF to my blog, so copy and paste will have to do:

Bloomin’ Ice Drop 2 shuttle pattern
Materials: 3/4” glass gem, size 20 Lizbeth thread (approximately 8 yards on shuttle 1, 4 yards on shuttle 2), two shuttles, 12” ribbon for hanger (optional)
vsp = very small picot --- = long picot

Round 1:

•  Ring 4 vsp 4---4 vsp 4, reverse work.
  
•  Chain 6 vsp 6, reverse work.
  
•  Ring 4+4+4 vsp 4, reverse work.
  
•  Continue creating rings and chains in this manner until there are 6 rings and 6
  
•  sections of chain. On last ring, last picot is a join to the first picot of the first ring.
  
•  Lock join last chain to base of first ring.
  
•  Do NOT reverse work.
  
  Round 2:
  

•  Chain 9, reverse work.
  
•  Ring: 6+6, joining to vsp in chain on round 1, reverse work. Switch shuttles.
  
•  Ring: 4-4. Switch shuttles. Do not reverse work.
  
•  Chain 7, switch shuttles. Do not reverse work.
  
•  Ring: 6-1--1-6, switch shuttles. Do not reverse work.
  
•  Chain 7, reverse work.
  
•  Ring: 6+6, joining to same vsp in chain on round 1 as first ring, reverse work.
  
•  Switch shuttles
  
•  Ring: 4-4. Switch shuttles. Do not reverse work.
  
•  Chain 9, lock join to base of next ring.
  
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   Do NOT reverse work.
  
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  Continue in pattern to complete 6 pattern repeats. Reverse work.
  

After round 2, the piece should look similar to this. This is a good time to set the shape with a steam iron. I put my tatting between to layers of clean terry cloth wash cloths.

Round 3:

•  Ring 6-6-6 (very small picots). Fold ring away from you toward center of work.
  
•  Chain 8, lock join to base of next ring on round 1. Fold ring back up for joining
  
•  next ring.
  
•  Ring 6+6-6, joining to second picot of first ring. Fold rings away from you toward
  
•  center of work.
  
•  Continue in this manner until 5 rings and chains have been completed.
  
  
•  On the sixth ring, 6+6, slip glass gem into place, join ring to first picot of first ring,
  
•  6 ds. Hold domed side of glass gem away from you.
  
•  Chain 8, lock join to base of first ring on round 1.
  
  Cut, tie, and hide ends. Use 12” of ribbon to create hanger or tat a hanger.