A tatted rose

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A tatted rose that I made for a friend for her birthday.



Next time I make one of these I'll place the petals better, but aside from that I'm really very happy with this one, and my friend loved it!



It's a nice, cheery little flower that will never wilt.

I learned several new tatting techniques to make the rose, so when I finished it I practiced one of them (pearl tatting) a bit more on these two bracelets:



All of these were made with normal stranded embroidery cotton (a mix of DMC and Anchor), with some beads for the bracelets and some wire in the rose stem.