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Baby Elephant – Jane Eborall © 2006 |
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Materials required:- No. 20 thread, one small bead for eye, 2 shuttles. The completed elephant measures approx. 2" x 1 ½". |
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Skills required – onion rings, split rings, rings on split rings, CTJ (see below) |
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Making the CTJ - continuous thread join |
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Using a hook, take Sh thread nearest to SR under and up through the last very small picot of side 1. Push Sh2 through the loop and gently tighten. |
Continue through all the picots on this side of the SR. |
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Abbreviations |
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R |
ring |
Ch |
chain |
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– or p |
picot |
SR |
split ring |
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/ |
after the / make 2nd half of SR |
smp |
Small picot |
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+B |
add bead to picot before joining |
SS |
Switch shuttles |
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vlp |
very long picot - size betwn ( ) |
vsp |
very small picot (smallest you can make) |
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Lj |
join made with shuttle thread |
+ |
join |
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RoSR |
ring on split ring |
Cl |
close |
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S |
start |
seta |
four first half of ds |
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setb |
four second half ds |
T & C |
Tie and cut |
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DNRW |
Do not reverse work |
CTJ |
Continuous thread join |
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Body – using Sh1 only (onion ring) R1: 2 smp 2 smp 2 smp 2 R2: small space 3 * + (next smp R1) smp 3 repeat from * once smp 3 + (space @ base R1) Cl R3: small space 3 smp 3 * + (next smp R2) smp 3 smp 3 repeat from * once + (next smp R2) smp 3 smp 3 + (space @ base R2) Cl R4: small space 6 + (next smp R3) * vsp 6 + (next smp R3) repeat from * 5 times vsp 6 + (space @ base R3) Cl DNRW Add in Sh2 Ch1: * vsp 6 Lj (next vsp R4) repeat from * 6times 6 Lj (vsp base R4) Ch2: 6 vsp 2 Lj (vsp Ch1) SS Front Leg SR5: 2 + (vsp on last Ch) 4 / 2 vsp 2 vsp 2 vsp 2 SR6: 6 vsp 2 / 2 vsp 2 vsp 2 vsp 2 R7: 2 + (vsp 1st side SR6) 14 Ch: CTJ to vsp’s on SR6, SR5 & base SR5 adjust angle of leg using CTJ before continuing |
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Front Ch: 8 Lj (next vsp Ch1) 2 SS Lower Head SR8: 4 vsp 2 / 4 – 2 Rw SS Trunk SR9 6 / 2 + (vspSR8) 2 SR10 4 / 4 SR11: 4 / 4 Rw SS R12: 4 seta smp setb 4 SS Ch: 4 Lj (space btwn SR11 & SR10) 4 Lj (space btwn SR10 & SR9) 6 Lj (space btwn SR9 & SR8) SS |
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Upper Head SR13: 12 / 6 SR14: 8 / 3 RoSR (4 + B [SR8] 4) 3 SR15: 8 / 4 Cl Lj (next vsp Ch1 – keeping the threads from both shuttles above the body) continue to Ear SR16: 3 vsp 3 / 6 SR17: 3 vsp 3 / 6 Cl Lj (join shown on fig. 1) Ch: 6 R18: 3 + (vsp SR17) 3 vsp 6 Ch: 8 R19: 4 + (vsp R18) 4 Ch: 10 R20: 6 + (vsp SR18) 3 + (vsp SR16) 3 Ch: 8 Lj (top SR16) Back Ch: 6 Lj (next vsp Ch1) 8 + (next vsp Ch1) 5 Vlp (2” tail) 3 Lj (next vsp Ch1) 6 vsp 2 Lj (next vsp Ch1) SS Back Leg SR21: 2 + (vsp last Ch) 6 / 2 vsp 2 vsp 2 vsp 2 SR22: 6 vsp 2 / 2 vsp 2 vsp 2 vsp 2 R23: 2 + (vsp 1st side SR22) 14 Ch: CTJ to vsp’s on SR22, SR21 & base SR21 (adjust so that leg is in a good standing position) 6 (next vsp Ch1 @ base R4) T & C |
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For any help with this pattern, please email me. |
