Tatting Abbreviations
Reverse Work - may mean to flip work from top to bottom, or turn like a cartwheel depending on the circumstances. The term "Turn" is also used to mean Reverse Work in some early books. Reverse double stitch (done when doing front side/back side ... [... more]
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What Is Tatting?
Tatting is a very pretty lace which can be used for all sorts of purposes ranging from large cloths and doilies to bookmarks and cards. To learn how, please visit the links on the right hand side which will take you to my articles for beginners ... [... more]
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Heavy Threads - Size 10
Coats Mercer Crochet Cotton size 10 - this is a little heavier than the other Size 10 threads on the market. Some of the heavier Kreinik braids such as the #16 braid also come into this range. Use seed beads size 8 or 9 with this range of thread ... [... more]
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What To Do When Running Out Of Thread
The result is that I now do not waste any thread, I had enough on both the shuttles from the previous round to work lengths of lace and I also have the third full shuttle to finish the round. Yes this means some finishing of ends, but it also ... [... more]
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Tatting-Past And Present
There are many online tatting groups that have joined resources to introduce persons to the art of tatting. It may be for this reason that tatting is not something that you can find very much information on at your local craft store; because it ... [... more]
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Why Not Tat?
A person is more relaxed in the morning or early afternoon. Yet, others can relax more once the children are put to bed or after the supper dishes are washed and put away. So, evening works better and is more enjoyable for others. And, yet, ... [... more]
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Upholstery Needle For Tatting
Most of you have read my articles on various subject matters involving frugal tatting. I’ve written about using a cord threader for waistbands, doll needles and even a piece of wood to wrap your thread around and using it for a shuttle. Well, ... [... more]
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Teaching Tatting
I teach not only tatting but, also knitting and crochet. With over 41 years in the needle arts, I’ve learned that the first thing that students want is results; otherwise they usually get discouraged and determine that they are unable to master ... [... more]
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Tatted Collar For A Sasha Doll
If you would like to know more about Sasha dolls I would suggest visiting Susanna Lewis's web site. The doll in the illustration is my blonde Blue Gingham girl who may or may not originally have had the partial ponytail hairstyle shown when she ... [... more]
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Site Map
How to climb out with Beads and placing beads on the Surface of your Work Preparing the shuttles and making floating rings in Two Shuttle Tatting How to make floating rings and Josephine knots with a tatting shuttle How to make floating rings and ... [... more]
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Tatting Bookshop
Tatting Doilies and Edgings edited by Rita Weiss, is a lovely volume of patterns from a number of publications from the late 1930s and from the 1940s which have been reprinted by Dover Publications. The Complete Book of Tatting by Rebecca Jones ... [... more]
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Book Review On Iris By Iris Neibach
Despite there being very few patterns in the volume they are fully diagrammed with written text instruction where necessary and take up ten pages. The butterfly in particular takes several pages. This is not a book for the beginner but is a ... [... more]
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