Chicks-Quail
A Family of Chicks or Quail, Brenda has done it again.
What we need is another contest. I want to know what y’all are doing with these Kritters!
Kwiki-Kritter Tatted Chick-A-Dee
ChikiChick
December 1998
Materials
1-1/2 yards pearl cotton, size 8
#5 (med.) Tatting Needle or 1 shuttle) Crochet Hook
(for joining)
Wire Needle Threader
Sharp-pointed Scissors
Instructions:
All-purpose Silicone Adhesive (for eye)
2 ea. Sz. 11 Orange-colored Beads (beak)
1 Movable Eye, 3 mm
Twisted-wire Beading Needle or Bee’s Wax
Wind off about 1-1/2 yards of thread from the ball and cut String on 2 beads with beading needle or stiffen end of thread. Thread tatting needle, and leave about a 4-inch tail.
With bee’s wax. For “rings only” begin 1st ring as follows:
Head:
R 5, beads [for beak), 17, -1 [tp for joining], 4,cl
Body:
R4+5 , – -1[1.5" picot for wing], 10, -1 [tp for tail], 12, -1, -1 [smp for feet), 9, cl R.
The picot wing(s) are optional.
After final ring, weave both thread ends back through the last few stitches, cut feet picots, and glue the eye on with a small amount of adhesive. Press firmly for about a minute and let dry.To tat a hen, use a larger size thread or same size thread.
R 1O, bds, 14, -1, -1,-1, 17, -1, 4, close ring.
R 8 + 30, -1,24, -1, -1, 18, close ring
tp = tiny picot
Smp = small picot
- – = large picot
+ = Join
Three chicks are adorable on stationery. Use a rubber stamped image of Arizona or California, and an adult quail leading the front–just like in nature. The three tuffs (picots) are representative of adult quail.
Brenda Caldwell-Bonilla
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