Heart's Desire

One of my favorite patterns is "Heart's Desire" by Susan K. Fuller.  I have tatted this piece four of five times in the past three years.

For this recent heart I used an Omega 50 cotton. The thread is quite soft.  On the final ring the thread broke once the ring was closed. I used the ball thread to make a lock join through that ring. One could use a single shuttle split ring to finish off and reduce the ends to tie in.

At 2.5 inches at the widest point, this is ready to put on a card

The pattern was shared with the online class and can be found here or the diagram by Frivole here.

New Threads

Treated myself to some new threads. These are Hakelgarn and I wonder what they will become.  Please do feel free to suggest.

Below is Manuela Color 213 size 20, not too bad of a thread and added it to the order as an afterthought.  This is Hearts Desire by Susan K. Fuller and I have done it a few times before.

I did see a knot as I was winding my shuttle and ran into some slight unevenness in the thread so I adjusted my tension so it did not cause any issues.

The pattern for this heart can be found on Le Blog de Frivole on the patterns page.