The Yin-Yang earrings free pattern

Since my Hanako necklace free pattern was so much appreciated, here's my second free pattern for the Yin-Yang earrings which match the necklace perfectly.
These delicate tiny earrings are really easy to tat, and can be considered as a valid solution whenever you need a pair of earrings to match a tatted necklace.

This beautiful thread I used here is a DMC Diamond thread in black, but a Sunlight poly thread will also be perfect.

This DMC thread actually looks much better than it shows in pictures and I love its shiny effect, but I also find it quite expensive and not so easy to tat.
Sunlight thread has the same thickness, it's easy to work with, and much cheaper, though you may not find it in the same colour.

This pattern is tatted using two shuttles: as you can see the design of the two earrings is quite deceiving: they look the same but they are not. So please be really careful that you tat them correctly.


The basic modules in the pattern are three:

Base ring: 10knots, 1 picot, 10knots-close. The central rings are connected through their picot in the middle of the flower motif.

Segment: all segments are equals: 7 picots and 9 spaces of 2 knots each

Outside ring: this ring will contain the crystal or pearl we choose to add: it must thus be larger than the others: 10knots, 1 p, 2k, 1p, 2k, 1p., 10k









To get the mirror effect of the Yin Yang design it is necessary to tat the rings and segments in the right order. Follow the numbers very carefully.

This is earring number one, carefully follow the number order: you'll finish the pattern on top, getting back to number 1. That's the point where you'll have to put your earring hook.

You can see the result on the left earring in picture

Here's the second earring: as you see you now have to follow a different sequence. so that the hook could be added between segment 10 and 13.

Here's the second earring.




No need to say that seen from afar the earrings look the same: this precious symmetry and equilibre is a sort of precious secret...






The final size of earrings is around 2cm. wide and 3 cm. long when tatted with DMC Diamond, Sunlight , or Penny 30 threads.

I really hope you'll enjoy this work, and I will be glad if you will post the pictures of your works in the comments below.

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And here's the link to the Sunlight Polyester thread:
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Happy tatting!