Take 5 Snowflake

This pattern uses 1 shuttle and ball and 78 beads (optional, replace beads with picots if desired).
Completed size 3.25" point to point when worked in size 20 Manuela thread with Mill Hill seed beads.

Center: 6 beads on shuttle, 6 beads on ball.
R 5-5 b 5-5 RW
Ch 5-3 b 3-5 RW
† R 5+5 b 5-5 RW
Ch 5-3 b 3-5 RW
Repeat from † 4 times more, for a total of six rings, joining final ring to first ring.
Cut and tie to base of first ring.
Outer round: 42 beads on shuttle, 24 beads on ball.
‡ R 5 b 5+5 b 5 (join to first picot in any chain) RW
Ch 5 b 3 b 3 b 5 RW
R 5 b 5+5 b 5 (join to second picot in same chain). Do not RW.
Ch 5-5 RW
Clover: R 5 b 5-5, R 5+5 b 5-5, R 5+5 b 5 RW
Slide bead up ball thread to base of clover.
Ch 5+5. Do not RW.
Repeat from ‡ 5 more times, for a total of six points.
Cut and tie to base of first ring, finish ends as desired.

Designed and tatted by Emma Crew for the first snowflake round robin, March 2001.

© Emma Crew, 2001
emmacrew@yahoo.com
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