BASIC NEEDLE TATTING
Copyright Oct. 2000
THE SPLIT RING and SPLIT CHAIN
PART 3 THE SPLIT RING  and  SPLIT CHAIN
ABBREV:
RING-----------R
CHAIN---------CH
DOUBLE STITCH---------DS
PICOT---------------P or " - "
JOIN--------------- J or " + "
SPLIT RING......./
CLOSE RING------CL R
REPEAT FROM * TO **
Pattern
ring: 5 - 5 / 5 - 5   cl
ch: * 3 - 3 - 3
ring: 5 + 5 - 5 - 5 cl r **
Instructions
THE SPLIT RING
The split ring is a ring where you don't need chains in between each ring.  And is
done with the NEEDLE thread as well as the BALL thread.

You start off by doing the same as you did for the normal ring...5 ds p 5 ds, with the BALL thread.......Then you UN-THREAD your needle and turn your work around.
So the EYE of the needle is now going to be used as the point. you use the
NEEDLE THREAD to do the stitches on the eye end of your needle.
5 ds p 5 ds
When you have done the stitches with the needle thread,
RE-THREAD your needle with the needle thread and close the split ring.
as you did for the normal ring....in this demo I used two colors.
   so you can see what is happening.
This will give you  a string of rings like this....oooo
Shows you what you have done previously, with another chain added.

It also shows the stitches (in RED being the BALL thread) and
the stitches (in GREEN being the NEEDLE thread)
IMAGE 1
IMAGE 2
Shows the completed split ring
IMAGE 3
Shows a string of split rings...the first ring is a normal one.
IMAGE 3
These diagrams may help to explain the split ring, and how to do it
THE SPLIT CHAIN
The split chain is worked similar to the split ring.
The difference is that you have to do
a join before the stitches of the second half of the split,
The join being made would be in the same
place as for the normal chain.
see the diagrams
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