I decided to use two shuttles for this round since there are thrown rings in it. I did start with shuttle-and-ball and utilise the shoe-lace trick (SLT) but the resulting effect is not to my liking, as shown below.
The one on top is tatted with shuttle-and-ball. What I get are 'kinks' in the chains where the thrown rings are. Compare those with the smooth chains when tatted with two shuttles. That is why I almost always choose to work with two shuttles when there are rings on the upper side of chains, unless the construction of the design requires that I do a SLT.
Another interesting feature that I have found of NB's patterns is the way the join is made when two rings are joined to the same picot.
What I have seen often is just as it is - two rings joined to the same picot. But NB's joins are slightly different in that a small picot is made immediately after the first ring is joined to the picot, with only one double-stitch between the join and the picot.
The second ring is then, first joined to the small picot of the first ring and then to the picot of the chain that was already joined by the first ring. Looking at the work so far, I think this method of joining gives a firmer result in the sense that the tow rings do not 'wobble' and lay flat.
There will be one more round after this, the scallop round, and this piece will be done.
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