13 Rainbow Tassel .
This heart uses the same wide border pricking as number 9 in the series, the 'Wide Border' but uses cloth stitch and twist rather than half stitch, and uses more passives.
Two pairs of white workers and 14 pairs of rainbow passives made of 2 of each of the 7 rainbow colours. Work in both directions, I like to start at the top left curve. Place a pin in an outer pinhole, hang the two worker pairs around and twist twice (making the simple winkie pin edge).
Place a temporary pin between the pinhole edges just under the worker pin. On this pin hang open (also called rainbow style!) in order, and following the spectrum if making the rainbow. No twists on these pairs. The rainbow can go either way, start with red on the outside, or the inside, just keep to the spectrum. Of course, there is nothing to stop you using whatever colours you wish, throw in some sparkle too if you like.
Take another temporary pin and twist the passive pairs from one side around the pin and push it into the pillow. This should hold the tension while you work the first side. You can start from either side.
Work through using cloth stitch and twist (cross, twist, cross, twist). Tension at the end of each row. Make a few rows and return to the pairs waiting at the other side.
Video starting in two directions at the start, and at 12 minutes, how to work the valley.
Remove both the temporary pins. Keeping the passives in order, place a twist on each pair. Work the cloth stitch and twist as on the other side and continue. At the valley point at the top, where the passives are split, divide them equally-ish and work half to the extra middle pin, the rest will go around the top of the middle pin as shown in video.
The join at the bottom can be made how you choose. For this one, I chose to include a tassel. The colours need to join in turn to keep the spectrum in line so I made this video.
Video working the tassel
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