Introduction: Tatted Princess Necklace and Earring Set

By Etsy Store
About: Community Manager for Instructables and Tinkercad.

I needed something to wear with the beautiful pink dress I wanted to wear for Marvalous Monday at work.  So I whipped together this earring and necklace set.  It only requires regular rings and chains and is pretty simple to put together.  And it is, of course, pink!

Step 1: Supplies

You just need the regular old tatting basic supplies
  1. Crochet Cotton Size 10
  2. Tatting Needle Size 5
  3. 2 Earrings
  4. 4 - 6 Jump Rings
  5. Clasp

Step 2: The Necklace

Time to get started tatting:
  1. R 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 cl. k. rw.  (2 ds, 7 picots sep. by 2 ds, finish with 2 ds.)
  2. Ch 4 - 4 - 4 k. rw.
  3. R 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2  cl. k. rw. (2 ds, 4 picots sep by 2 ds, finish with 2 ds.)
  4. Ch 4 - 4 - 4 k. rw. 
  5. R 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 connect to center (4th) picot of previous ring 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 cl. k. do not rw.
  6. Repeat 1 - 5 until the desired length.  You will end with #5. 

Your necklace is done.  It is going to be really wavy-like, so you are going to want to at least iron it if not iron it, starch it, and iron it again.

Step 3: Earrings

I needed something to go along with the necklace, so I whipped up these earrings to match.  These are almost the same as the necklace except you don't repeat the pattern and you extend the pattern a little.
  1. R 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 cl. k. rw.  (2 ds, 7 picots sep. by 2 ds, finish with 2 ds.)
  2. Ch 4 - 4 - 4 k. rw.
  3. R 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2  cl. k. rw. (2 ds, 4 picots sep by 2 ds, finish with 2 ds.)
  4. Ch 4 - 4 - 4 k. rw.
  5. R 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 connect to center (4th) picot of previous ring 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 cl. k. rw.
  6. Ch 4 - 4 - 4 k. rw. 
  7. R 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2  cl. k. rw. (2 ds, 4 picots sep by 2 ds, finish with 2 ds.)
  8. Ch 4 - 4 - 4 k. connect to the bottom of the first ring you created, double knot and hide the ends.

Step 4: Finish It All Off

To finish it all up, I ironed all the pieces.  Then I spray starched them and let them dry.  (Before I spray starch them, I like to make sure all the stitches are laying right and I pull on the decretive picots and make sure they are laying right as well.)  Once they were dry, I ironed them again.

To attach my findings, I decided to put two jump rings on each end of the necklace (partly to make sure things lined up, partly to make it just a smidge longer), and added the clasp to one end.

For my earrings I just attached an earring to a jump ring and then attached that to the tatted ring that had no picots.  You are done!  Put them on and be a pink princess!