Forty Original Designs in Tatting By Nellie Hall Youngburg Novel and Unique Designs with Complete Instructions for Every Pattern Designed and Executed by Nellie Hall Youngburg, Brookings, SD© 1921. As a summer tatting project, tatters in the 2014 Online Tatting Class have been rewriting and modernizing the patterns in this vintage tatting book. Diagrams and new models have been prepared to help the tatter follow the patterns more easily. Both the original public domain booklet and the new version are being posted online to share with all tatters everywhere.



Nellie Hall Youngburg Wide Tatted Edging in Points No. 11 pg.3 with New Model by Kathleen Minniti and Diagrams by Jane Eborall
















Edging motif:


Begin with large center ring.

R 5, 21 picot separated by 2 ds, 5 clr rw

All small rings 4 ds between picots or joins

All chains begin and end with 5 ds.

All picots on the chains are separated by 2 ds.







Header:

All rings 3 ds between picots or joins.

All chains begin and end with 5 ds.

All picots on the chains are separated by 1 ds.

The original design would have joined many of the motifs (points) to the long line of the header edging. However, with careful study and a modification this could be tatted in one pass. Let's consider the possibility. Two rings of the header join to the point. Let's change that to three rings. Now we could tat ring 1 of the header and the chain, rw and instead of second header ring, chain (CH) 3 and join to the previous ring, CH 3 rw. Next make the large ring with 21 picots clr rw and tat the edging around as shown. The last chain would join to ring one of the header. End chain where the point started. RW and CH 3 picot 3 and secure chain to chain of header. Continue header joining the next ring to the point. Place 1-2 header rings between each repeat.