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If you’ve been following the Absolute Beginner Tatting Series up to this point, and I hope you’ve been practicing, you’re probably getting pretty good at making that double stitch.
Here’s a tip. When you are tatting with two colors of thread, you can tell that the stitch “transferred” correctly if it is the color of your working thread, not the shuttle thread.
Unfortunately, you won’t always be using two colors, and you’ll have to get good at telling if the stitch transferred without that little trick. For example, when you are making a ring you will only use one shuttle, and one thread, so there is only one color.
Don’t worry too much, though. There is a trick you can use to check if your stitches transferred when making a ring, too. Do you want me to tell you what it is? Really? Sorry, you’ll have to watch the video to find out. (No hard feelings, but it wouldn’t make sense yet even if I did tell you.)
Are you ready to give one color tatting a try? On your mark, get set, go:
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This post is part of a series of Absolute Beginner Tatting Lessons. Go back to the previous lesson, Your Tatting Toolkit, or jump ahead to the next lesson, How to Make Picots.
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You are such a talented teacher. I don’t need to learn (been tatting for 33 years) but I find myself watching these- even with school starting in two days. You’re clear, concise and wonderfully patient at demonstrating.
I could wax on.
Michelle, thanks so much! You warm my heart.
Thank you for your tatting information. I am trying to relearn my old tatting talents. I have forgotten many things but I watch you videos and remember things.
May I be a name in your give away?
Thank you
lrt40
Linda, glad you’ve come back to the fold! To enter the giveaway, please make a comment on that post.
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Thank you so much for making these videos available online. When I went to go get my supplies, no one even knew what tatting was, so finding a teacher would have been daunting. With your help, I’ve actually been able to figure it out and successfully make a ring on my first try. Thank you so so much!!! It’s so much fun to learn a new skill, especially one that isn’t common in this day and age (like driving a stick shift lol)
Emmi, I’ve had the same experience in so many stores. I ask if they have any tatting supplies, and they look at me like I’ve asked for auto parts in a quilt shop. 🙂 I’m glad the video was able to help you, and that you successfully made a ring! Congrats! That’s the first step to getting addicted! Happy tatting.
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Hi
Thank you so much for the videos. they are very good.
I’m trying to learn how to tat, but don’t know anyone that can teach me.
I’m crocheting and knitting for long time and learn about the existing of tatting from the web. I bought a good book that teach tatting but watching your videos is much more understandable.
So thanks again for your work and hope to learn much more from you.
Best regards
Daphna
Israel
Daphna, welcome to the wonderful world of tatting! If you can’t find a teacher, then find someone to teach instead. That way you’ll at least have a tatting friend and can learn together. I hope my videos help. Good luck, and happy tatting!
A BIG THANK YOU for your videos that are so clear and precise.I just found this site! I have wanted to learn tatting for several years, and just last year found out 2 of my friends tat. We don’t live close to each other, and see each other maybe once a month. The one friend just gave me a book by Rebecca Jones. It is full of illustrations, step by steps different methods, history and patterns. This book got me started with making the double knot. I appearantly was not flipping knots right. I will be practicing more and rewatching video. Again thank you so much.
This is the video that actually got me to understand the flip and make my first ring. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this series. I am relearning to tat and these are a great help. I have a problem with my rings, when I tighten them, they are twisted and I have to straighten them each time. This is especially troublesome when I add in the picots.
The most common reason that the thread will twist around is that you are not consistently making the second half of the double stitch. Check to make sure that you’re making both halves every single time.
Thanks so much for your reply. That is what is happening, I am sure. I have gotten better, my fingers are figuring out what to do, things are going smoother. I have a string of rings with picots joined up. :D:D When I had young children a lady at a nursing home taught me to tat. I am so excited to get back into it. Looking forward to doing the daisy and butterfly. :D:D These lessons are perfect. Thanks for all your work.
You’re welcome.
Why can’t I close a ring by pulling shuttle yarn am I doing something wrong
I am enjoying your tatting videos very much. I would however; like to know what I am doing wrong, my thread will not transfer to the shuttle thread at the beginning of the stitch. It is very frustrating . Please help me with this.