Valeire Square and Ice Cream Cone Written Instructions

Patterns based on a square motif from Tatted Yoke No. 4 in Fifteen Tatted Yokes and Camisoles Finished on Satin, Book 9, by Anna Valeire, published by E. C. Spuehler in the early 1900s.

Valeire Square Instructions
(Shuttle and Ball)
Diagram

Round 1: (Note that there are NO joins in this round.)
*R 8-8, cl. R 8-8, cl, rw.
Ch 5-5, cl, rw.*
Repeat from * to * until you have 4 pairs of rings and four chains.

Use the alligator join to climb out of round 1 and into round 2.

Round 2: (Note that you are joining adjacent rings together by joining into the picot of two rings at the same time.)
**Ch 2-2-2-2-2-2+(join two adjacent rings together)
Ch 2-2-2-2-2-2+(join into the space at the base of the next pair of rings)**
Repeat from ** to ** until you have joined back where you started this round. Finish as desired.

Ice Cream Cone
by Eliz Davis
(May 4, 2007)
(measures 3 3/8 inches by 2 3/8 inches in size 20 Manuela)
Diagram

Note that if you are tatting the entire piece in one color, you will need two shuttles since there is a 2nd shuttle ring at the bottom. For a two color piece, you'll use ball and shuttle for the ice cream and two shuttles for the cone. Instructions are for a two color piece.

Begin with one completed Valeire Square in your desired color (flavor) of ice cream.

Optional: Load a few beads on both the ball and the shuttle and drop them into the piece randomly for a few candy sprinkles.

Using the same color as the square, begin with the ring marked with a star in the diagram and note that you are starting up one side of the square and working your way around. If you are tatting in traditional tatting, your Valeire square will be backside up as you join that first ring so it would be as if you are looking at the diagram from the back.

Ice Cream Scoop:
R 3-3+ (j to center p of chain on square) 3-3, cl, rw.
Ch 2-2-2-2-2-2, rw.
R 3+ (j to previous ring) 3+ (j into same p of square as last ring) 3-3, cl, rw.
Ch 2-2-2-2-2-2, rw.
R 3-3+ (j to center p of next chain on the square) 3-3, cl, rw.
Ch 2-2-2-2-2-2, rw.
R 3-3+ (j to first p of next chain on the square) 3-3, cl, rw.
Ch 2-2-2-2-2-2, rw.
R 3-3+ (skip 1 picots on that same ch and join to next) 3-3, cl, rw.
Ch 2-2-2-2-2-2, rw.
R 3-3+ (j to center p of next chain) 3-3, cl, rw.
Ch 2-2-2-2-2-2, rw.
R 3-3+ (skip 1 picots on that same ch and join to next) 3-3, cl, rw.
Ch 2-2-2-2-2-2, rw.
R 3-3+ (j to center p of next chain) 3-3, cl, rw.
Ch 2-2-2-2-2-2, rw.
R 3-3+ (j to center p of next chain) 3-3, cl, rw.
Ch 2-2-2-2-2-2, rw.
R 3+ (j to previous ring) 3+ (to same p of square as previous ring) 3-3, cl.
Finish ends and add in new color for the cone or continue if you wish to tat all in one color.

Cone:
Using two shuttles in the desired cone color, attach your thread to the base of the last ring tatted and
Ch 2-2-2-2-2-2, rw.
R 3-3+ (j to center p of the next chain on the square) 3-3, cl, rw.
Ch 2-2-2-2-2-2, rw.
R 3-3-3-3, cl, rw.
Chain 2-2-2-2-2-2
Form a 2nd shuttle ring of 3-3-3-3, cl.
Chain 2-2-2-2-2-2, rw.
R 3-3+ (j to center picot of last shuttle one ring) 3-3, cl, rw.
Ch 2-2-2-2-2-2, rw.
R 3-3+ (j to center picot of the remaining chain of the square) 3-3, cl, rw.
Ch 2-2-2-2-2-2. Join to base of first ring of the ice cream scoop and finish ends as desired.