Purple Allum Tatted Flower

Materials:
Size 20 purple tatting cotton. 1 shuttle. 6 inches of 20 gauge green wire. 6 purple seed beads. 1 large green bead (as seed pod). PVA craft glue.

Method:
Small petals - make 2.
Wind 18 inches of thread onto shuttle, but do not cut from ball.
R 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 cl, RW
*C mp 3, start SCMR 3 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 3 cl SCMR, 3 lj to next p.**
Rep from * to ** all round until 6 points have been made and lj to mp.
Cut and tie ends, dab knot with glue.

Medium petals - make 2
Wind 20 inches of thread onto shuttle, but do not cut from ball.
R 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 cl, RW
*C mp 5, start SCMR 3 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 3 cl SCMR, 5 lj to next p.**
Rep from * to ** all round until 6 points have been made and lj to mp.

Large petal - make 1.
Wind 22 inches of thread onto shuttle, but do not cut from ball.
R 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 cl, RW
*C mp 7, start SCMR 3 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 3 cl SCMR, 7 lj to next p.**
Rep from * to ** all round until 6 points have been made and lj to mp.
Cut and tie ends, dab knot with glue.
Make one small ring with 9 long picots separated with 1 ds, cl, tie & cut ends.

To make up:
Tat all pieces required.
Glue seed bead to one end.
Glue the rest of the pieces in the following order:
Small ring, bead;
Small petal, bead;
Medium petal. bead;
Large petal, bead;
Medium petal, bead;
Small petal;
Large green bead.