Georgia Seitz - Ribbonwinners
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Beaded Flower by Magret Hölscher


Size 20 thread or pearl cotton size 8, 84 beads threaded, shuttle and ball thread

This flower many be used in many ways, as a brooch pin, with or without leaves, as napkin ring decoration, or floating in a glass tea light cup holder.


Special abbreviations
(7k) picot with 7 beads
(1k) picot with 1 bead

Load 84 beads onto the ball thread, then wind about 70 cm (1 yard) thread onto the shuttle.


Round 1
Place 42 beads on the left hand.
Ring *1 (7k) 1 - (small picot), repeat from * 5 times leaving out the last picot which is replaced with a mock picot to climb out from round 1 to round 2. RW

Round 2
Chain 4 - 2 (1k) 1 (1k) 1 make a total of 7 beaded picots, 2 - 4 + (shuttle lock join to small picot of ring 1) continue to chain
*CH 4 + (join to previous chain) 2 (1k) 1, make a total of 7 beaded picots, 2 - 4 + (shuttle lock join to small picot of ring 1) *, repeat from * 4 times. Join last chain to first chain then use mock picot to climb into round 3. RW

Round 3
Make a shuttle lock join to the next free standing picot of the previous round.
Chain 2 ( long picot 1 ) x 20, 2, + (shuttle lock join to free standing picot between the following chain)

Repeat this chain 5 times and fasten off.

Make leaves and add small ribbon to make into a flower corsage.


Many thanks to Magret Hölscher (no email address) for sharing her patterns with the class.
Any questions? You are welcome to email me: AKTATTER@aol.com
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