This is what I did with the beautiful hand painted thread that I received from Suetta.It is called Raspberry Serbet, I plaited the tail!
This is motif no 5
It is in Altin Basik in shades of purple, no 50 thread. It was supposed to have a sort of spiderweb centre, but the Gremlins got into my shuttles!! and notheting fitted, I didn't realize this until I had made 5 of the points, so used the good old stand-by for mistakes my little heron shaped scissors and I cut the middle out and did a sort of perpetual chan middle with vsp's and finished the star points and fitted the middle in. The original pattern was from a vintage Coates leaflet with pieces missing that I found at a car boot sale so have been a little "creative" with the pattern. Apologies to Coates!!
This is a strange bookmark, but needs must when the Devil drives! I had this lovely rusty burgundy corded yard about as thick as usual 4ply knitting wool fom Prue on the exchange,
I just did a clover with 4 - 4 - 4 - 4 close x3,
then a chain of 6 - 6,
another clover, chain of 6 - 6 and joined to last ring of clover,
chain of 12 - 6 - 6
then I did clovers down the other side joining as I went, sewed in ends and added a tail, I liked it.
My grandson asked why I had given that Teddy a tail!!!
