Christmas Crafts: Tatted Lace Snowflakes at Chawton House
Channel: ChawtonHouse
Date: 2020-12-22

Join Chawton House volunteer Wendy New as she shows you how to make a beautiful lace snowflake decoration to adorn your tree, greeting cards (or anything else you fancy). 

Filmed in the Billiards Room at Chawton House, Wendy will guide you through the process step by step.

Suitable for those with basic tatting skills, you'll need:
- Crochet Cotton
- Tatting Shuttle & Hook
- needle with eye large enough to take Crochet cotton
- Polystyrene Board or similar
- pins
- watered down PVA glue & brush.

Instructions:
Snowflake centre : winding ½ m of Crochet Cotton no 8 onto shuttle make a ring of 8 picots divided by 2 double stitch. Close ring and sew in ends.

Snowflake middle : wind 2 m of threads onto shuttle and work into each picot of snowflake centre a ring of 4ds p 4ds, close ring and make a chain 4ds p 4ds. Make next ring into next picot of snowflake centre and repeat until 8 rings and chains have been completed. Sew in ends.

Snowflake outer : wind 2 m of thread onto shuttle and join to a picot of the snowflake middle. Chain 6 ds, make ring of 4 ds p 4ds, close ring, chain 6 ds and join to next p along snowflake middle,  repeat until the outer snowflake is complete. Sew in ends.

Press finished work, which can be stiffened with a little PVA solution and pinned flat on a polystyrene board to set shape. Once dry add a small hanging thread.

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This video is offered free of charge as part of Chawton House's digital programme. Visit www.chawtonhouse.org to find out more about the house, and to book on to our series of online talks and workshops.