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Last week Amritha asked me to help her out with Jeanne Lugert’s 3D rose. I don't know which, if any of my tips helped her. But it was just the incentive I needed to Finally make one. Yes, it is my first time with this pattern and worked in Pearl cottons size 8.

And then I got carried away, hunting and collecting more 3D rose patterns, some being shared last month for I LoveTatting. (see what was made during that month here).

I am stumped by the range of styles and methods being used to create a 3D lace rose and just had to try each.

UPDATE : Carollyn asked about the leaves. I've given instructions in the comments, but here's a back view of the leaves using Daniela's Mimosa Knots at intervals. 

I intend to add leaves to complete each rose hence the tails are left uncut. For a better comparison, I stuck with pearl cotton. Mind you there are still quite a few patterns I still want to try, before wrapping up. Not to mention those with special techniques such as Cluny, inverted, treble tatting, etc.

A quick note on those done so far – from center, clockwise –

1. Jeanne Lugert uses a split ring braid and looks good both in single or 2 colours. I added leaves using Mimosa Knots. 

2. An idea from pinterest where 3 separate rosette medallions are made and then overlaid & sewn. Instead of snipping after each layer, I continued with the single shuttle.

3. Agnieszka uses only rings made with one shuttle and shares a small and a large version. I really like how these turned out, especially the larger one.

4. Rolled rose from kukkatatting uses rings and chains. I found it a bit difficult to string it into shape but it ends up larger than previous roses. 

5. The Jessica Rose by Sharren Sarver Morgan uses dimpled rings instead of plain rings. It gives a nice blossomed look.  

6. 2 red roses in Anchor size 20 are my own prototypes.

The above is taken from a different angle. I find it is more fun to work with single shuttle, tweaking the ring sizes as you go, but the split ring one is easier to pull into shape.  

Much as I liked the shapes of each of these, what I kept missing was a coiled center as in a real rose or rosebud. Took the plunge to try my own 3D rose. 

Single shuttle. I’ve curled the first ring vertically (I've used this to perch the butterfly on one of the Buddy Hearts), then curled the 2nd ring around this 1st one using a slightly larger picot and 2ds more. Then the rest of the petals are made. 

These are still nascent and the smaller one is still attached to shuttle. I’m still trying to perfect it. But what do you think of them so far? 

UPDATE : A new bud, using 3 vertical rings curled around each other and a 4th ring to complete the bud. Size 10 knitting cotton....