Daisy

With help from Jane, who patiently looked through my pattern writing I can now give you the ............................

DAISY PATTERN © Sally Kerson 2013

Abbreviations:

R ring 
Ch chain

Cl close 
p picot

LBP long bead picot 
vsp very small picot

SR split ring 
RW reverse work

+ join B bead

MB move bead from core thread 
Cl close

Btn button 
T & C   tie and cut

Materials required: 1 four hole shirt button 11 mm, No 20 thread in two colours, size 11 seed beads

Wind two shuttles: shuttle 1 yellow and shuttle 2 white (or any colour which will suit the petals of your daisy)

Round 1 - (there will be two LBP in each hole of btn)

Using shuttle 1

SR1: 4 attach to 1^st hole of btn with LBP (2B) 4/2 vsp 4 vsp 2 Cl

SR2: 4 attach to 1^st hole of btn with LBP (2B) 4/2 vsp 4 vsp 2 Cl

SR3: 4 attach to 2^nd hole of btn with LBP (2B) 4/2 vsp 4 vsp 2 Cl

repeat until 7 SR have been worked

SR8: 4 attach to 4^th hole of btn with LBP (2B) 4/2 vsp 4 vsp 2 Cl T & C to base of SR1

Round 2

Shuttle and ball thread

Add 64 beads to shuttle thread 16 more are needed to add to picots.

(3 B at back of hand before starting)

R1: 3 p 8 BBB MB 8 p 3 Cl RW

Ch: 4 (with wrong side facing of Round 1 + any vsp on round 1) 4 RW

(3 B at back of hand before starting)

R2: 3 + B (R1) 8 BBB MB 8 p 3 Cl RW

Ch: 4 + (next vsp round 1) 4 RW

(3 B at back of hand before starting)

*R3: 3 + B (R2) 8 BBB MB 8 p 3 Cl RW

Ch: 4 + (next vsp round 1) 4 RW*

repeat from * to * until R16

R16: 3 + B (R15) 8 BBB MB 8 + B (R1) 3 Cl RW

Ch: 4 + (next vsp round 1) 4 to base of R1 T & C

See this link for diagram of adding beads onto top of buttons

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By missing out a bead on the BBB you can make room for a jewellery finding or stem/leaf, but the daisy will look just as good as an embellishment on clothes or bags etc. 

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