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Flower 1

© Gillian Buchanan 2001

MATERIALS

• No. 20 Crochet Cotton
  
• 2 tatting shuttles

1. Wind 2 tatting shuttles without cutting the thread between them.
   
2. Start by tatting over a paperclip - thread a paper clip approximately half way between the shuttles.
   
3. SH1
   C 6 ds, p, 2 ds, p, 2 ds, do not RW.
   
4. SH2
   R 2 ds, J to adjacent p, 2 ds, p, 4 ds, cl. r, do not RW.
   
5. SH2
   R 4 ds, J to adjacent p, 4 ds, 2 p sep by 4 ds, 4 ds, cl. r, do not RW.
   
6. SH2
   R 4 ds, J to adjacent p, 2 ds, 6 p sep by 2 ds, 2 ds, cl. r, do not RW.
   
7. SH2
   R 4 ds, J to adjacent p, 4 ds, 2 p sep by 4 ds, 4 ds, cl. r, do not RW.
   
8. SH2
   R 4 ds, J to adjacent p, 2 ds, p, 2 ds, cl. r, do not RW.
   
9. SH1
   C 2 ds, J to adjacent p, 2 ds, p, 6 ds, do not RW. Draw up C tightly, remove paperclip, J with Sh1 into space left by paperclip.
   
10. SH1
    Make 2 unturned half stitches. Reinsert paperclip and draw it up tightly against the last stitch.
    
11. SH1
    C 6 ds, J to adjacent p, 2 ds, p, 2 ds, do not RW.
    
12. SH2
    R 2 ds, J to adjacent p, 2 ds, p, 4 ds, cl. r, do not RW.
    
13. SH2
    R 4 ds, J to adjacent p, 4 ds, J to corresponding p of adjacent r, 4 ds, p, 4 ds, cl. r, do not RW.

Continue all round the motif as shown until there are eight rings at the centre, each carrying groups of five rings at the top. Join all rings as described, the last 4-4-4-4 R is joined to the first one and the last C is joined to the first one exactly as before. Don't forget to make the final two unturned stitches before joining into the base of the first mock ring - I find this method makes a very neat centre and you can make the traditional flower motif using it as well.