FREE TATTING PATTERN
12 inch diameter mat
`TAT THREE'
By Rosemarie Peel
Copyright 1999

This mat is specially designed to go under a plant pot.

The majority of the work is in the outside rows where it will show.

I have written out the pattern below in conventional rounds. If you are a more experienced tatter you will know how to work the first five rounds continuously by using split rings and bridged chains.

Materials
Wind a shuttle full from a ball of Coats mercerised Cotton #20 or similar. Do not cut.
The mat can be made using just one 20 gm ball of this thread but there is not much margin for error.

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This gap allows the pattern to be printed nicely on two pages.
For best results use the black cartridge on your printer.

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Abbreviations
R.....ring,
Ch.....chain,
RW.....reverse work,
LJ.....Lock Join,
-.....normal picot,
--.....long picot
+.....join
The numbers denote the number of double stitches to make.

The pattern is written out in a simpified way just to make counting the stitches easier. Look at the illustrations to see where the joins are made.

Centre ROUND ONE R 3-3-3-3 close, RW, Ch 6-6-6-6-6, [RW, R 3+3-3-3, Ch 6+6-6-6-6, RW] seven times, R 3+3-3+3 close, RW, Ch 6+6-6-6+6,

ROUND TWO [R 3-3+3-3 close, RW, Ch 9-9, RW,] eighteen times

ROUND THREE...NB...The first two rings make an increase by joining to the same picot on round two.[R3-3+6, RW, Ch 9-9, RW, R 6+3-3 close, RW, Ch 9-9, (R 3-3+3-3 close, RW, Ch 9-9, RW,) five times)]three times.

ROUND FOUR [R 3-3+3-3 close, RW, Ch 9-9, RW,] twenty one times.

ROUND FIVE [R 3-3+3-3 close, RW, Ch 6-9-6, RW,] twenty one times.

ROUND SIX [R 3-3-3-3 close, RW, Ch 6, RW, R 3+3-3-3 close, RW, Ch 9+9+9, RW,] twenty-one times.

ROUND SEVEN [(R 3+3-3-3, RW, Ch 3-3, RW,) three times, (LJ, Ch 3-3,) two times] twenty one times.

ROUND EIGHT...Two shuttles...Sh1 and Sh2 both wound full with no break between. Sh1 [R3-3-3-3 close, RW, Ch 3+3 (joining to the picot on the chain between two LJ on previous round,RW, R 3+3-3-3 close, RW, Ch 6, Sh2 R 3+6+3-3-3-3-3 close, Sh1 Ch 6, RW, R 6+6 close, R 3-3-3-3 close, RW, Ch 6-3, RW, R3-3+3--3--3--3--3-3 close, R3+3--3--3--3--3--3-3, R3+3--3--3--3--3-3-3 close, RW, Ch 3+6, RW, R 3-3+3-3 close, R 6-6 close, RW, Ch 6+6, RW.] twenty one times.

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