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A tatting charm awaits us .... such a beautiful adaptation of the already adapted-from-vintage-edging heart pattern! Yes, you guessed right - the Happy Hands Heart from Endrucks' #1 pattern is now a Shamrock leaf, courtesy Diana Howe. And she shares her working with us!

Happy Hands Shamrock - adaptation by Diana Howe

UPDATE Sep 2022 - pattern pdf :

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_D5xY68NyfsKMB4LDr0GUv-WYC0VCba6/view

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pattern for Happy Hands Heart - https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2021/02/happy-hands-heart.html 

In her own words -

I’ve modified your Handy Hand Heart to create shamrock. The center ring (R1) makes a handy spot to add a lapel pin to mount it on a collar. Enjoy!

She shares 2 sequences sketched neatly - clockwise and counterclockwise!

 

Must leave a small space between CH1 and Ring A – the width of a thread – to allow an alligator join (passing one shuttle over, one shuttle under heart) to cross from chain D to E.

Tail/stem: after last ch 3, join to start.

I really like a balanced double stitch to create a stem.

This one is tatted in size 40.

Notice that she has used normal chains throughout instead of the roll tatting segments in the heart pattern.

TIP : Instead of ending the stem in a knot, one can hide ends in the chain as shared here - https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2019/12/open-treasures.html 

Above is her earlier leaf in size 20 where she used the S-chain (1double st,1 reverse st) for stem.

I really like the simplicity of her arrangement to create a perfect leaf! We are indeed lucky to have this pattern.
All tutorials can be found by clicking on the tabs above.

I requested her to write something about her tatting journey for us to get to know her better and she graciously agreed -
Diana Howe of Lake Stevens, WA, has been tatting since 1980 when she purchased a Better Homes & Garden tatting kit in Ames, Iowa in preparation for a road trip (move) west. Been creating ever since! So, while trying to design a shamrock with heart shaped leaves that start from the base, Muskaan posts the perfect heart, Handy Hand Heart. Here is her adaptation. Enjoy!

Many many thanks, Diana, for sharing your lovely adaptation and for your kind words :-) 

Please note that I have made a couple of edits to the edging pattern I shared in previous post, adding a few points I'd forgotten at the time of posting.

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The treasure chest is open! Krystyna and Anita are sharing lovely patterns of their lovely Hidden Rose adaptations shown here!!!

Actually, there are a few other snowflakes where tweaks have been made. But I’d like to tat those up before sharing. It may take a while, but there’s always next season :-D

Getting right down to it ….

Krystyna Mura’s Earrings adaptation

Now this is a very clever use of thread which she has diagrammed as well. In her own words –

  

I wanted to make the whole rose bud in the shade of red. It is possible to get such a result with Lisbeth 20 "cranberry bush" (colour 181)

This particular thread colour is excellent for this goal

I wound the thread on two shuttles as it's shown below.
The ring - shuttle 1;
All chains [except lock chains, of course]: the core thread - shuttle 2.

Krystyna has captured the direction, sequence and count, etc. all in a single, easy-to-follow colour-coded diagram!

Since I don’t have any such variegation, my model is made in 2 parts. The yellow rose is made with 2 shuttles, continuous thread and stem/leaves in green ball and shuttle, continuous.

However, I captured the green thread at the base before starting the 1^st lock chain.

For the outer chains in rose, I went clockwise instead of counterclockwise.

I didn’t snip off the yellow tails. These are easy to encapsulate within the green Josephine chain stem to avoid sewing in ends. After carrying them for a distance, I snipped each off at different points.

Krystyna used the magic thread trick to hide tail ends. I struck upon a new (I think) idea to end on a chain. Use the dead end, floating or single shuttle splitchain (SSSCh) method! Yes, it can be used to end, not just start a curlicue!

Here’s how –

Hiding Ends in Floating chain

After bottom leaf, double the shuttle thread and continue the Josephine chain by finger tatting over the other green ball thread. We are encapsulating the other tail.

On reaching the end, pass 2^nd tail through the SSSCh loop, and snip off after about 1cms. Now pull the shuttle thread to close the loop, tugging the 2^nd tail inside the stitches as well. Snip. No sewing in ends for those, like I, who cannot do the MTT.

I might do a stepwise pictorial later if anybody asks. 

Related - http://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2016/11/beginning-or-ending.html 

Anita Barry’s Heart adaptation

To see a heart in a rose snowflake is something Anita does well!

The rose count is tweaked slightly, however the original count will also work, provided the heart chain is reduced in length proportionately.

 

count and sequence notated in image

Rose - 2 shuttles, ctm. Use shuttle closest to the next element as core thread.

A: ring: 7 - 7. RW

B,C,D: Lock ch: vsp, 9, lock join, 10, vsp 9 +(ring)

E,F: ch: 18 lj vsp 20. T & C.

Heart - 2 shuttles, ctm. Start with shuttle #2

Chains have thrown rings (TR). Switch shuttle before and after each TR.

A: ring: 5 +(base of rose) 5. Switch shuttle

B: ch : 16, (TR:5), 3 , (TR:8), 3, (TR 14), 3, (TR 8), 3, (TR 5), 3, lj. SS

C: SR : 6/6.

D: SR : 6/6. SS. LJ.

E: Repeat chain going down, with thrown rings... RW

F: SR 5/5.

G: ring: 6-6.

This last can be a single shuttle split ring (SSSR) to hide ends.

UPDATE : Hidden Rose Heart pattern pdf.

I had tremendous fun tatting these pretty quick projects. In fact I used scrap yellow threads for both. Hope you enjoy them as well.

I will see you next with the #23 snowflake ! All photographed ….

Many thanks to Anita & Krystyna :-)))

Related Posts

https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2019/10/flowers-love-me.html - original

https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2019/12/hidden-treasures.html - variations

https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2020/03/hidden-directions.html - clockwise pdf

https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2020/08/hidden-option.html - a 2-round working method