Thursday, December 3, 2020

December 3 button ornament

 


I am having so much fun tatting with buttons!

December 3 Button Ornament


Materials:

5/8" four hole button

size 20 thread

2 shuttles wound continuous thread method


Symbols:

+  join

-  joining picot



Round 1:

Ring 4 + 4 - 8, reverse work (join to button)

Chain 9, lock join to picot on ring, reverse work


Repeat ring, chain pattern around button with two joins in each hole


On final ring, join to base of first ring instead of making a picot


Round 2:

Split ring 6/6

Chain 15, reverse work

Ring 6 + 6, join between rings of previous round

Repeat around ending with lock join to top of split ring.

Cut, tie, and hide ends.




8 comments:

  1. What size button did you use? Looks nice on your tree.

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  2. Woo, hoo, what fun. My Church Mom, just sent me a big go of her mothers buttons. I just got done cleaning them up and cutting off some of the string...now to start tatting around them.

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    1. Ooh! You always come up with such wonderful ideas! I can hardly wait to see what you do!

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