Poker Butterfly Heart

Poker Butterfly Heart

Designed by Margaret Davies © 2020

This pattern came about in Lock down playing  Virtual Poker tatting,  by given a set of poker cards,  we were asked to design a piece of tatting,  this is what I came up with.

Abbreviations

-           Picot

+   -      Join

Vsp -  very small picot

JR  -  Josephine ring,  the numbers beside are the stitches count for the JR

CTM – continuous thread

I suggest two shuttles CTM for this pattern, I used size 20 thread but it’s up to you what size you use.  As you tat the chains the butterfly will stand up making it 3d.  At the beginning of every chain do a very small picot so you can join the next chain

Butterfly

1^st ring            10 – 6 – 4

2^nd ring           4 + 6 – 6 -4

3^rd ring            4 + 6 – 6- 4

4^th ring            4 + 6 – 10

do not break off thread

Heart

This starts at the top of the butterfly

1^st chain  20 + (join to 2^nd ring) vsp 5 – 5 + (join to 3^rd ring) vsp 20 + (join to top of butterfly) v

2^nd chain 25 + (join to p on 2^nd ring) vsp 7 – 7 + join to 3^rd ring) vsp 25 + (join to top of butterfly) vsp

3^rd chain 28 + (join to p on 2rd ring) vsp 9 – 9 + (join to p on 3^rd ring) vsp 28 +   (join to top of butterfly) vsp

4^th chain  7 JR10, 5 JR10, 5 JR10, 5JR10,  5JR10,  7  + (join to p on 2^nd ring)  6 JR10,  6 JR20, 6 JR10, 6 + (join to p on 3^rd ring) 7 JR10, 5 JR10, 5 JR10, 5 JR10, 5 JR10, 7 + join to top of butterfly.

In the picture I did a spiral chain so it could be hang up, but this is optional, I added a small piece of thread to the butterfly for the antennas.

Feel free to use the pattern for personal use or to sell items made from it, but not to sell the pattern as if it was yours.  Please credit me as the designer of the pattern

Link to my blog   http://margaretsdesignercards.blogspot.com

Link to the poker game http://tatyourownadventure.wordpress.com