Folded Bookmark

If you don't like tails on your bookmark, or tassels or ribbons that come out from the page when you close the book, maybe you'll like this.  This is a bookmark that hasn't got any of the above, but will stay on the page of the book and will not get lost in it, too.

I call this a folded bookmark.  

Why folded?, you asked.  The next picture should make it clear enough.

The bookmark is folded together and placed to hang on the top edge of the book on the page where you stopped.  It  will not get lost in the book because you can see a splinter of it from the top.  There will be no overhanging tail, tassels or ribbons when you place the book on the shelf.  Neat, huh?

The thread used for the model is Lizbeth 115 - Springtime, size 20.  The full length of the finished bookmark is about 15cm and 4.5cm at the widest part.

Part 1 (shown in yellow in the chart)

Two shuttles

Begin at the ring shown,

R(5-5), reverse work (rw).

C(6-4-4-8), rw.

R(5+[to picot of pr ring]5), rw.

C(4-4-4), rw

R(5+[to shared picot of pr join]5), do not reverse (dnr)

Switch Shuttle (SS), C(3-3-3-3-3), rw.

R(5+[to 2^nd picot of chain before last]5), dnr.

R(5-5), rw.

C(3-3-3-3), rw.

R(5+[to previous ring]5), rw

C(3-3-3-3-3), rw.

R(5+[to shared picot of pr join]5), rw.

C(3-3-3-3), rw.

R(5+[to shared picot of pr join]5). Dnr.

R(5-5), rw.

C(3-3-3-3-3), dnr.

SS, R(5-5), rw.

C(4+[to previous ring]4+[to picot of opp chain]4), rw.

R(5+[to previous ring]5), rw.

C(8+[to last picot of 1^st chain]4-4-6), rw.

R(5+[to shared picot of pr join made]5), dnr.

SS, C(3-3-3-3-3-3), dnr.

SS, repeat from the beginning for the other half of the motif.  After the last chain, cut and tie to the base of the first ring made.

Part 2 (shown in green in the chart)

Shuttle and ball

R(5-5), dnr.

R(5-5), rw.

C(3-3-3-3), rw.

R(5+[to previous ring]5), rw

C(3-3+[to 3^rd picot of chain at tip of Part1]3+[to 2^nd picot of same chain joined to earlier]3-3), rw.

R(5+[to shared picot of pr join]5), rw.

C(3-3-3-3), rw.

R(5+[to shared picot of pr join]5), dnr.

R(5-5), rw.

C(3-3-3-3-3), rw.

R(5+[to previous ring]5), dnr.

R(5-5), rw.

C(3-3-3-3), rw.

R(5+[to previous ring]5), rw.

C(3-3-3-3-3), rw.

R(5+[to shared picot of previous join]5), rw.

C(3-3-3-3), rw.

R(5+[to shared picot of previous join]5), dnr.

R(5+[to picot of first ring made]), rw.

C(3-3-3-3-3).

Cut thread and join to the base of first ring.

Hide all ends.