A member of the Ring of Tatters called Lily told me that variegated thread would look good if I put a contrasting plain colour with it and that is how this fan got started. The fan sticks are 9 inches long. This photo doesn't show the plain colour very well, I'll have to get another one done. I've scanned two close-ups to show the three ways in which I worked the plain colour before I finally came up with the best answer: which is illustrated as the white motif pattern sample below.
The first attempt at making the green filling was made with ordinary rings. The thread trails up the side of the ring, lock joins to an appropriate picot before starting the next ring.
Once I had the dimensions I used split rings, can you see which is which on the first close-up?
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In the second close-up can you see that the green rings come from the green chains using the second shuttle?
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Copyright Rosemarie Peel 1998
On the diagram left the numbers in the top left-hand corner give you the pattern for the lozenge shape.
The lozenge has the variegated thread in its rings and these are attached to the fan sticks.
All the numbers for the plain rings which come between two lozenges are shown. They look rather uneven in the diagram but they work out fine in reality.
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