Sharon's flakes

Just too tempting to forego! Sharon shared 2 new snowflake patterns recently and I got to work immediately. Now, they look pristine in white, and snowflakes should be white. But you know me – I want to spice up the challenge and took to colours to see how they’d look. Also, to bring out the flower within.

This is the first snowflake (pattern here) originally worked continuously with one shuttle and ball, climbing out with a split chain.

My coloured rendition is done with 3 strands of Anchor embroidery thread

which is equivalent to a Lizbeth 20. And no split chains.

Black shuttle for central ring & orange 0333 'ball' for rosette chains : <1¼" or <3cms

Mustard 0306, ctm : <2¼" or 5½ cms

Green 0204, ctm : 3" or 7½ cms

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This is the 2^nd snowflake she posted here.

I used Anchor 40 this time, but worked continuously.

Measurements after each round : 1” ; 1½” ; 2½" or 6 cms.

Started with maroon, ctm for the central ring and 1^st round, then switched the core thread to cream. I kept the maroon shuttle, but snipped off the ball.

In order to get the desired colour placement and eliminate colour blips, I used

the Slope & Roll join instead of lock join in the 2 outer rounds;

SLT to make the split chain in maroon,

and the Reverse Join to switch positions after the split chain.

I remembered how to do the split chain, but unfortunately the colour is hard on the eyes and somehow that segment twisted while linking. The camera shows it all, sigh !

Future Ideas:
This snowflake could work beautifully as repeatable motifs linked for a larger lace.
But as I worked the outer round, it struck me how beautiful it would look as a continuous doily – the ‘formula’ for the last round can be repeated (with additional side rings) ad infinitum without having to change the stitchcount at all!
Perhaps one of the middle or last round can have the central floral motif all around ?!

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