As soon as you can tat a ring with picots, it's traditional to make a butterfly.
It consists of 4 rings, that's all.
You can give them to strangers you meet while tatting on-the-go,
or stick them on cards and letters, or sew them onto bags.
Here we show different styles of writing patterns.
Fully descriptive style:
Ring A: 12 double stitches, small picot, 1 double stitch, bigger picot, one double stitch, small picot,
12 double stitches, close ring.
Ring B: 7 double stitches, picot, 7 double stitches, close ring.
Ring C: As ring B.
Ring D: As ring A.
Cut thread and tie to thread at beginning. Trim to form butterfly antennae.
Using standard abbreviations:
Ring A: 12ds, sp, 1 ds, long p, 1 ds, sp, 12ds, cl r.
Ring B: 7ds, long p, 7ds, cl r.
Ring C: As Ring B.
Ring D: As Ring A.
Abbreviations:
Numerical format:
Ring A: 12-1--1-12
Ring B: 7-7
Ring C: 7-7
Ring D: 12-1--1-12.
The number of ds is indicated by the figure alone, and picots are indicated by hyphens. Two hyphens, --, mean a long picot.