Welcome to the Tatters' Round Robin for Beginners

Georgia Seitz - Ribbonwinners
Tatting Patterns & Shuttles
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Welcome to the Tatters' Round Robin for Beginners!

The center motif pattern for this round robin may be tatted in two steps cutting and tying each round or climbing with a split ring from the inner six rings to the second round without cutting.

Round 1 Tat the six inner rings.
Option A: Tat all six rings then cut, tie and hide ends.
R 6 - 2 - 2 - 6 close ring.

Round 2 Attach the ball thread to the middle picot on any inner ring and begin to chain.

CH 3 - (very small picot) 4 Do not reverse work.
R 3 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 3 close ring. Do not reverse work.
CH 5 Do not reverse work.
R 3 + (join to last picot of previous ring) 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 3 close ring. Do not reverse work.
CH 5 Do not reverse work.
R 3 + 2 - 2 - 2 - 3 close ring. Do not reverse work.
CH 4 - (very small picot) 3
Shuttle join to the middle picot of the next inner ring.
Continue around joining the chains at the very small picot.
Finish off ends.

Option B: Wind two shuttles CTM. Tat five rings normally. R 6 - 2 - 2 - 6 close ring. Then tat the sixth ring as a split ring. Begin split ring with shuttle one (SH1) and tat the last part with shuttle two (SH2).

Split Ring SH1 6 - 2 / 2 - 6 close ring. Make mock picot see also Dani's graphic of mock picot)to climb out into the next round.

Shuttle lock join to the middle picot of the next inner ring.
Continue around joining the chains at the very small picot.
Finish off ends.

Suggestions:
Use a picot gauge to make the picots all the same size.
Insert a helping loop (Debbie Drke's method) to pull the last ends up into the ring/chain to hide. See alsoTammy's Magic Thread trick.
Remember help for every step and technique is available by email and on the Learning Center at www.georgiaseitz.com.

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