Tatted Princess Necklace and Earring Set

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!

1. Crochet Cotton Size 10
2. Tatting Needle Size 5
3. 2 Earrings
4. 4 - 6 Jump Rings
5. Clasp

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.

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.

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!