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More skulls, and a pattern.

I was playing around with the skull pattern I posted here and came up with this variation. It’s a toothier skull sans the jaw bone. After coming up with a combination that worked I had this little tatted guy and wanted to do something with him (and not add him to the craft room bin of swatches, mock ups, trails and proof of concept scraps). So I thought I’d attach him to something, and then the idea of adding a tatted border around it to create a kind of cameo occurred to me.

I decided upon this edging (Victorian Edging by Eileen Stafford) with some modifications. To make it a little smaller to fit the size I wanted, I decreased all ds counts and changed the center clover ring to have only three picots instead of five as well as changing the joins to add a curve to the piece.

Both pieces were stitched to the green felt oval with black thread and a pin back was attached to the backside. Perfect for Halloween!

Skull Cameo Pattern

Size 20 crochet cotton and #7 fine tatting needle

For Skull:
R: 6
Split R: 8/6 RW
Ch: 34 RW
R: 8 + (to space between R and SR) 6 RW
Ch: 7-1-1-1-1-1-6
Attach chain to other outer eye and fasten off.

For Edging:
R: 4-4-4-4
*Ch: 3- (very small picot(vsp)) 4-2-2-4-(vsp)3 RW
R: 4+ (join to third picot of previous ring) 4-4-4
    (alternate every other repeat with 4-4+4-4, this creates a curve)
R: 4+4-1-1-4-4
R: 4+4-4-4 RW
Ch: 3+ (join to picot of previous chain) 4-2-2-4-(vsp)3 RW
R: 4+ (join to second picot of previous ring) 4-4-4 RW *

Repeat between * * for desired length (mine was 7 repeats) joining to first repeat at the end. Press flat with steam iron. Cut out a piece of felt slightly larger than the inside edge off the tatted band. Whip stitch pieces into place with black thread. Ta-da!