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Woohoo! It’s my first giveaway! To celebrate the many positive responses I’ve gotten from my Absolute Beginner Tatting Series, I’ve put together a little gift box for one lucky beginning tatter. Already tatting? Give it to a friend and recruit another tatter!
The kit includes:
- Two Clover brand plastic tatting shuttles. Choose from either pink and blue, or yellow and green.
- Two balls of DMC Cebelia size 20 threads, in lavender and light pink.
- One Boye size 13 crochet hook.
- One small seam ripper.
- A very nice red paperboard box, with a bit of my tatting on the lid, to hold all your new tatting supplies and projects.
This is a nice starter kit for any beginning tatter, or a stash-builder for an experienced tatter. Includes the shopping list from my post, Your Tatting Toolkit.
Want this box of tatting supplies? Here’s how you enter for your chance to win!Please leave a separate comment for each entry in order to have it counted. This entry is mandatory! If you do not do this, your other entries will not count! Follow this blog and comment below, including your email address (in the comment form or the text) so that I can reach you if you win. Please share your tatting story in your comment! Have you tried to learn tatting before? Been an avid tatter for decades? Remember a grandmother who tatted?
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Shipping to North America only. Giveaway ends at Midnight, MST, August 31st. I’ll use random.org to pick a winner. I will email the winner, and if I do not hear back within 48 hours a new winner a new winner will be picked.
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I have never tatted, but have always been fascinated by all the beautiful things I’ve seen. When I saw your “Absolute Beginner” series, I knew I had to try it. Thank you so much for the tutorials and for the opportunity to enter your Tatting Toolkit Giveaway.
Catherine, good luck! I hope you do try it, and keep me posted on your progress.
I hesitate to enter because I really do have these things but… I have a friend in England who’s looking to start and I would send her your beautiful package. I’ve already sent her the links for the videos. If you’d rather include just newbies, I would totally understand.
I’ve been tatting for 33 years although really seriously now for the last year. My great Aunt Rose-E who was also my godmother taught me and made me promise to teach someone else too (I have several times, including my daughter). I found blogs last year and with that split rings and other techniques that NEVER even crossed my mind. The one thing that really got me excited was “how to open an closed ring”. That has saved my bacon more than once.
Stop by my blog for a peek- http://www.telamagistrae.blogspot.com
Michelle, I’ve been following your blog for a while and enjoy it. Glad you’re discovering new and interesting techniques. You’re definitely entered in the giveaway, and I’m sure you’ll put it to good use.
I have never tatted, never known anyone who tatted and don’t know of any local groups that tat. BUT I would sure like to give it a try! Worked my way thru stamped embroidery, counted cross stitch, some granny square crocheting and now doing knit lace shawls. Would love to say “I tatted that!”
Sue, many of us tatters are the only ones in our local area (that we know of at least), so we often turn online for inspiration and companionship. I’d love to include you in my tatting circle of friends. Good luck!
I so want to learn this. I think I am just scared to start. This kit would be wonderful to receive. Everything you need to just jump in feet first!! ha ha (more like hands first!) I did bookmark your First tut on tatting so I can try it. Hope to win. Thanks for the chance.
Ricki, pick up a shuttle and give it a try. Let me know how it goes!
I love needlecrafts of all kinds and have always wanted to try tattting! I am following your series faithfully but haven’t had a chance to get to the craft store to get the supplies, so this kit would be perfect for me. Thanks for the chance to win!
email is emarci at hotmail dot com <3
Marci, thanks for following. Let me know what else would help you learn and I’ll try to include it all.
What a super website! I am not a beginner. I just wanted to let you know that your website is VERY helpful for beginners! Pat on the back good job! Dyan
Dyan, thanks for your complements. Please let any friends know about the tutorials who want to learn tatting.
I remember my Great Grandmother tatting. She was from a time when tatting was an acceptable ladylike past time and she made lovely dainty things. I took up needle tatting which is also very fun but have enjoyed seeing your traditional tatting videos and have been trying out the more traditional method which I am finding very meditative. Love it! Thank you for the lessons!
Anna, your story made me smile. Glad you are enjoying the traditional method too.
I have tried tatting in the past, without much success. Your videos have inspired me to pick it up again. Thank you!
There are very few really good tatting blogs. Yours is the best I have seen. Keep up the good work!
osprey63@gmail.com
Alice and Pat, I hope you give it a try again. Come back and let me know how you are doing.
What a great incentive to try tatting! I have not tried tatting but have been fascinated by it for a very long time. My grandmother either tatted or crocheted lace. Beautiful work and I would love to know how! I am enjoying the lessons though so far they are mental lessons only!
Pat (pupton58 at gmail dot com)
Pat, do give it a try. Continue the family tradition!
Love your box!! Awsome idea! I started tatting 4 yrs ago. My mother always wanted to learn once she had gotten older. She told me of her grandmother trying to teach her. But mom was a little too young to be interested. Soooo….my mom was coming out to see me one spring and I thought it would be nice to teach her tatting. Of course, I would have to learn first. So I tried the shuttle and was thinking it might be a little hard for her, so I tried the needle. Very easy. Once she came to see me she tried a little tatting. 2 years ago, I finally gotten the shuttle down, after 3 attempts. I’m sooo addicted, it goes everywhere!!! I just started teaching free classes to some of the local girls. This little kit would mean alot to some of my less unfortunated students.
Marie, I love that you learned to tat so that you could teach your mother, and then kept on teaching!
Hi I am a beginning tatter, and mostly working from a dvd I found at hobby lobby and the advice that I read on intatters message board, I have knitted and crocheted since I was about 10 years old but never could find anyone to teach me to tatl.
My biggest frustration so far is that craft stores do not carry tatting supplies, I mostly have to order them online or make do with what I can find, but I love the idea of your goodie box for new tatters.
Deb and Mosaic Magpie, I hope the videos have helped you, and that you keep up practicing. Good luck!
What a lovely giveaway and perfect for me. I have never tatted with a shuttle before. I did recently find a video on needle tatting. I made a few rings and some edging that I used in my crazy quilting. The needle tatting is fun and I would love to learn with a shuttle. Thank you for the opportunity to win!
Deb
I tried my hand at tatting for the first time almost twenty years ago. I always wanted to figure it out but the how-to book just never made sense. Watching your videos has really made me understand tatting for the first time. I would be thankful for the start up kit, I would love to pick up where I left off all those years ago.
My mother learned to shuttle tat from her mother-in-law from her first marriage. Either she had a good teacher, or just a knack for picking it up right away. She learned it quickly, but never pursued it. Nor ever forgot it.
Years later, she taught me when I was around 16 years old. I so struggled with it, but never gave up. It took me three months to finally get the hang of making consistent slip knots and not ‘knot-knot’s.
I made my first doily, which took me about four months of careful work (you know, being a newbie and all). When done I proudly showed my mother. My heart sunk when she took it away from me and gave it to a friend of hers as a birthday gift. She flippantly told me, ‘you can always make another one.’ – but it was my FIRST piece! you can never get that back. –
I did go on to make other things, but I still reminansce the ache from having my first piece so rudely taken. Don’t misunderstand; I love my mother and always have. I don’t think she quite comprehended how she wounded me by what she did.
By the same token; I never comprehended how much grief I caused her until I had kids of my own and heard the words from my past reverberate back to me: “Oh mom, it’s not like how it was in your day.”, and “It’s the 1990′s, things are different now.”
As the saying goes, ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same.’
hi,
I am hesitant to look for a give away of something like this. All my childhood I have seen tatted laces and always wanted to learn the art. Today, I started looking out of things needed ad ways to learn online and hit your blog.
Wish me good luck
Regards,
Aparna
I learnt tatting when I was in grade 9 but never actually tried to make anything due to my busy schedule with studies. Now after seeing so many nice free patterns and encouragements on the web, I have started tatting again and trying to learn new try quite often but still a long way to go.
After seeing my tatting pictures and facebook profile picture all my friends are asking about this art and they want to learn it too. I will be happy if I will be able to make at least one person learn it. But more than one is always a lot nicer.
I read you tatting blog quite regularly and your videos are nice and easy to follow. I always recommend your videos to all my friends who ask about tatting.
Prabhjyot, glad you got back to the tatting. There are SO many beautiful patterns online and in books, and SO many wonderful things to make. Good luck!
Just want to ask you where is the follow button on your site? I would love to see your new stuff everyday.
Thank you for your reply.
Prabhjyot, there is a RSS follow button at the very top of the right sidebar (just below the header picture). If you click on that you can choose your favorite RSS reader. Or you can “follow” by just coming back regularly. Let me know what else you’d like to see.
Thanks, I have put up a link to your site on my blog so it will be easier for me to come back to see new things here.
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I would so love to win this and start my “Tatting” journey – my grandmother was a great tatter – she learned in England where she was born and my Mom still has a few of her supplies. Been wanting to learn for a while myself, so I’m happy to find you and your Absolute Beginner Tatters Series. Woohoo!
My mother tats and my grandmother tatted, but I’ve always been hesitant to try it, because the finished products look intimidating. The Absolute Beginners series has inspired me to try it!
I’ve always loved the look of tatting, but as of yet, I haven’t learned. I was really excited to see your Absolute Beginner series. I look forward to adding tatting to my crafty repertoire. Thanks for the giveway!
Vanessa, JuliaP, Marie, glad to have you aboard! Give tatting a try and you’ll have a new bag of tricks.
I googeled Tatting but nothing came up. Since I’m all for trying out old crafts I would love to try this. You made me very curios of this. Thanks and good luck for the give away to everybody!
I love the idea of a beginner giveaway kit. As you know I’m a beginner, and I love your series. There were just so many things I didn’t “get” about shuttle tatting that you are making so clear.
I can’t wait for more of your lessons.
Shell, stay tuned. The next lesson “making picots” will be out tomorrow morning.
Can I take part but IF I won ask you to send to my granddaughter in the USA? She’s a new learner.
TIA
Jane, absolutely! Glad to hear she’s taking after you.
Thank you so much for your video series. I started tatting in March of this year and after I made a bookmark for my mom I found out that my Great Granny tatted as well.
I will admit until I watched your winding a shuttle video I was doing it in a very odd way and it took forever, now I know a better way, Thanks so much for that.
I have become so “addicted” to my tatting that my dd wants to learn but at the moment I don’t have another shuttle to teach her with. This kit would be a fantastic start for her.
Stacey, glad you found a better way to wind the shuttle. I love it when I find an easier way to do something!
I began to tat over 30 years ago and stopped when I went back to work. I’m now retired early due to my disability which has put me in a wheelchair for the last 25 years. I was going through all of my old yarn stash to inventory it since I do alot of crochet and knitting. I found my old shuttle and a few of the items I used to make. My sister saw them when she visited me last week and thought I ought to go back to it. Now I am beginning to look at the web sites and patterns available for tatting and I woud love to get back into it again. I just need a good refresher course so I can start. Your giveaway would help me tremendously.
Cindy, Have you heard of Jan Stawasz? He began tatting after a disability rendered him unable to work, and now is a master at it. I look forward to the day when I am as good as Jan.
I taught myself to tat from an old book. I seem to be doing well enough. I won a 3rd place ribbon at the county fair for a tatted doily I made. It would be nice to have some supplies. They can be hard to find around here.
Gary, congrats on the fair! Keep practicing and you’ll get a first place someday.
I have been looking for years to find someone or someplace to go to, to learn to tat. My grandmother used to do it and said she would teach me when I was old enough…She died before I was…I have a metal suttle, but will get a plastic one, if that is the best to learn on…I can’t tell you how excited I am to have come across your website….
Awesome,
Cathy J
Cathy, use metal or shuttle or ivory or wood or whatever you have or like best. The plastic ones are good for beginners because they are a cheap investment, not because they work any better. Welcome to the club!
When I was in middle school a woman who heard me sing gave me a tatted cross as a gift. It was so beautiful! Many years later I tried to learn to tat myself. I learned how to needle tat, but I couldn’t understand the books on shuttle tatting. Thanks for the tutorials- maybe now I can get the hang of it!
Kelsey, that was such a lovely gift. After you learn, maybe you can pass on the same for another young girl.
I tried to follow, but it’s just giving me the style page! I remember my granmother tatting, and would love to re-learn how to do it.
KellyS, What do you mean by “style page”? If there’s a problem I’d like to fix it.
Followed you and commented on twitter!
I want to learn to Tat. It is such a lovely craft. I know how to crochet some quilting and embroidery. I have never learned to tat and I have seen such beautiful motifs and edgings made from it.
My mother used to do some, and I always thought it looked so pretty! I would love to give it a try myself.
Karol and Sylvia, Please do give it a try. It’s not as hard as it looks!
I am new to tatting and am hoping to learn at the retreat I’m going to in Colorado in September! It is such a beautiful lace! I appreciate the chance to win your kit! Thank you so much!!!
Kerry
kerrykatiecakeskeb43@gmail.com
I LOVE looking at tatting and am hoping to learn it at a retreat my group is having in September!! I am sooo excited to learn and really appreciate the opportunity to maybe win a beginners kit! Thank you so very much for this chance!!
Leslie Ehrlich
pinyoncreekq@q.com
Leslie and Kerry, what type of group do you belong to? It’s great that your retreat is teaching tatting!!
I’m so excited; thanks for the giveaway opportunity! Following on Google Reader. I have bought tatting shuttles in the past and then gotten discouraged… I tried needle tatting fairly recently and had fun but couldn’t find user-friendly instructions. I actually found your site b/c of lefty instructions — woohoo!
Kate, glad you found the lefty instructions helpful!
@DelightfulKate following you, and tweeted!
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Oh, I would love to enter this, thank you for such a generous giveaway!
Both of my great-grandmothers tatted beautifully and while I was too young to have learned before they passed away, I’ve always wanted to. My Grandma kept all of their shuttles, patterns on index cards w/pieces of the lace either taped or stapled to them, along with a lot of the threads. My Mom has those now, but I’ve thought about getting a couple of the shuttles from her to learn and then eventually getting some of the patterns too, once I have learned.
I’ve left a link on my Blog, just to tell others about your tatting blog. I have mostly cross-stitchers that are my followers, but I know there are many of them who do other needle art crafts also.
Here’s the link to my blog itself. http://kilijosmusings.blogspot.com/
And here’s the link to my FB page where I shared your giveaway link. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1221249158
Super giveaway! When I was about 3 years old, our neighbor was a tatter. She made the most beautiful items! Her shuttle would fly and I could never catch on. Got a shuttle and tried, but made a mess. Have to be shown, I guess – visual learner here. Thanks for your blog and the chance to win! I’ve got your RSS feed now.
Joy @ tomorrowsmemorieskjlb.blogspot.com
Joy and Kim, I hope the videos indeed help, as tatting is so much fun to do. It’s super easy too, once you get over the initial learning curve.
I’d love a chance to enter and learn tatting! I am very interested and the videos should be very helpful
Thanks!
I would love to learn, this is a good way to start. I may need someone to come to my house to help me.
mary mac, I wish I lived closer. Maybe the videos can help, or maybe you can find a tatting class in your area. Either way, good luck!
I would love to learn how to tat, but unfortunately my family’s funds are a bit low right now and my craft budget is taking the hit. Being able to win a tatting kit (thank you so much for the opportunity) would allow me to start this new craft and follow along with the tutorials, which I’m really enjoying. Thank you so much for the opportunity to win and for the great tutorials, which I’ve been bookmarking furiously.
Emmi, I thoroughly understand about craft budget cutbacks. That’s one of the reasons I love tatting: it’s super cheap! The initial startup investment is about $20 (free, if you win the giveaway), and there are tons of free patterns online. Good luck!
I went to our church’s thrift store yesterday and they gave me 16 different spools of crochet thread. I took it as a sign from God and went around to 3 craft stores until I found everything on the toolkit list. Now I’m spending my husband-less weekend learning from you. Thank you so much! (Please take me out of the give away so someone who has need to win can; it’s always nice to win, but I’d prefer someone else whose budget has taken a cut get this. Thanks)
Emmi, a word of caution on buying secondhand thread. (Please note, that I am a huge fan of buying things secondhand.) Some of these threads are useable and great, and some are older and may have become too brittle to use. Here’s a quick check. Unwind a length of thread and try to pull it apart with as much strength as you can. If it holds up, great! If it breaks, then it will probably break while you are trying to close a ring or hide ends. Don’t use that thread. I hope your spools are useable! Happy tatting.
I learned to tat when I was a little girl from my sunday school teacher. I still have and treasure the hankie she made for me. I am also fortunate that I still have the hankies my grandmother made.
I have been away from the craft in recent years and would love to win this kit so I could get back started.
Thanks,
Celestine
heartnhand2god@yahoo.com
Celestine and Claire, those early starts might help you when you try it again. Good luck, and keep me updated on your progress.
Hello!
I have been trying to learn tatting for a very long time. I have gotten to a point where I can make ONE ring and picots!
I have watched many a video and read every tutorial I could find. I have never met a person tatting that had the time to teach me and often I was the only one in my crafting circles that wanted to learn. I have met lots of people saying they wished they knew how….
I have gotten the hang of Cro Tat… It’s fun, but well.. it’s not tatting….
I have just now found out about your fabulous website and I will certainly give it another whirl!
I think this giveaway is a very sweet thing to do! I hope whoever wins it will have hours of enjoyment out of it!
Good luck to everybody!
Spin, It’s great you can make a ring and picots! You’re well on your way to making a doily! The next video will be on how to join rings (picots) together, so stay tuned.
Awesome! Thanks!
I tried many many years ago to do tatting, I was a bit young then but I did manage to do it. But recently I have noticed it has come back into fashion again and I have wanted to try it again. I don’t really remember how to do it now so it will mean starting from scratch, so I do hope I can win this prize, and thanks for the chance to win.
I love the look of tatting, especially on a handkerchief edge. I have two different booklets about tatting but no shuttle as of yet! I’ve wanted to try tatting for some time but I wasn’t certain I could learn it on my own. I’m glad you’ve made some video tutorials!
Thanks for the great giveaway!
Collette and Aubrey, I’m so glad you going to give tatting a try. It is so much fun and so beautiful, you’ll get hooked as soon as you master the basics. Keep me posted!
I have never tatted before, but I would love to try. I see articles about it all the time on craftgossip and I always think how fun it would be to try t out. Winning would give me a great reason to try
Aubrey@greeble.org
I have tried tatting on my own, but wasn’t very successful. I love these tutes. They are so clear and helpful. Thanks! I would love to win this package too.
Connie, good luck learning. Once you get the hang of it, it will be super easy.
Just getting started as a tatter artist (tatterer?) so winning this giveaway would be a great help. I was unaware of your blog until I saw the giveaway announcement on /craft Gossip. You can be sure that I’ve bookmarked the site as a favorite! Thanjs for the great giveaway opportunity!
Paula, glad to have you as a new “tatter.” Good luck!
My Great nana tatted any thing she could find. I have just started to learn. What a great giveaway!
Melissa, Linda, Janet, glad to have you aboard! Keep practicing and you’ll be hooked!
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Just found your site and became a follower. I used to tat as a young teen, but haven’t tatted since, so I don’t remember much. Would love to learn again, and hopefully it will come back to me. I don’t have any of the thing that I need, so this giveaway is a good chance to possibly win them to start to learn. There are some great tutorials on your site, and I LOVE the fact that you have videos with your tutorials as I am a visual learner. Thanks so much for that, and your giveaway. Love your site!!!!
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I am fascinated with Tatting. Furthermore, I am excited about learning how to Tat. Hopefully, I will get the hang of it quickly. Thanx for the 411 on what to purchase to get started. Also, your tutorials make it look so easy!! Good luck to all you beginners, like me!!
Tatting is so beautiful. Your blog is inspiring. I hope to learn how and possibly to win your gift set. Thanx!!
Fran and RoryRueRue, good luck to you both. I hope the videos help you learn to make this beautiful lace.
I follow through RSS (does that count?). I tried to learn to tat years ago in a class my mother and I took. She did ok, but I couldn’t get a hang of it. I’d love to try again now that I’ve learned to crochet. Maybe I’ll grasp the concept better.
Carmen, RSS definitely counts. If you can crochet, you’ve got a leg up in learning tatting. Most crocheters that I teach find it a little easier going. Good luck!
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I am hoping to have time this weekend to go get the supplies needed…I have watched a few of the videos, but without doing them along, they are just not sinking in.
But I have to say that the videos are done very well. And I appreciate all the time that has been put into helping others learn a lost art.
Cathy J
Cathy, I hope you can find some supplies locally. Some craft or sewing stores have a small selection of tatting shuttles and threads.
About the videos, thanks. I really enjoy passing this on, and just hope I’m able to help some people out. Keep me posted on how your tatting goes.
When I came across this beautiful lace last year I knew I had to try it – but unfortunately couldn´t find shuttles locally. So… I improvised and learnt needle tatting and have done a few pieces. But, if I should be so lucky as to win your fantastic giveaway, I sure would follow your tutorials and do it the “proper” way!
Celia, I hope you can get some supplies one way or another. At least you found some needle tatting supplies–needle tatting is just as “proper” as shuttle tatting; just not traditional. I first learned needle tatting too, and though I don’t do it anymore (except to demo once in a while), it is a perfectly valid way to go. Either way, good luck and keep tatting!
Hi, I’m Teodora and I’m a beginner
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I started a few weeks ago to learn tatting with a needle just until I bought my first shuttle …then come the second shuttle and the third and I stopped at the fourth …. Generally I’m a quilter, but since I discover tatting, I’m hooked for ever. You must know pretty well this feeling
Your give-away is wonderful, and I’d love to win that box with YOUR work on top of it . …the Cebelia thread is a dream, too.
Thank you for your generosity .
T.
P.S. So happy to read your blog, I will be a sure follower .
Teodora, tatting does have a way of capturing you from the beginning. Enjoy!
Me again….just realized that you are shipping only to North America…. No problem, I’m still happy to read your blog further
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I started to learn to tatt a couple of weeks ago – I wish I had found your site then as your videos are very clear, concise, good quality and easy to understand and I like the useful hints you give.
I have added your website to google reader in order that I can keep up with your posts
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Am in the UK – but happy to pay postage.
Ann, there will be more advanced videos coming, so stay tuned. I’ll catch up with your skill level soon.
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I have tried to learn to tat and have not been successful. I knit and crochet, sew and cross stitch. I am going to try again using your tutorial and hope to be succesful after all these years. I am retired and have the time and patience to be successful. Thank you and i would love to win your kit. Kaju
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the great tatting tutorials. I inherited my grandmother’s silver shuttles and her patterns. Grandma’s patterns were “sample pieces” she tatted stitched onto brown paper. The sample pages were then sewn together like a book. The thread she used is incredible delicate-almost like sewing thread. I’ve always wanted to follow in her footsteps. For the past 20 years, I have asked almost everyone I’ve come in contact with if they could teach me to tat. Attempted it a few times on my own but could never make the flip. Watching your fantastic tutorials, I was able to accomplish the basic rings and picot. Yeah!! Please keep them coming; I can’t wait to learn how to connect stuff and read patterns. You are the answer to my tatting dreams.
Felicia, your grandmother sounds like a treasure! Congrats on getting the flip (and rings and picots)! We’ll be getting to joining picots, adding thread, and reading patterns soon, so stay tuned.
What a lovely give-away! I’m beginning my 4th year of tatting and definitely still learning all the time. I got in touch with the local tatting group a few months ago, and we’ve had people drop in to our meetings wanting to learn! This would be a great start for more visitors.
Leah, how great that you have a local tatting group! Few people are as lucky as you to have fellow tatters in their area. Please do pass along my blog to any new tatters you know.
We had been trying to find this group for a while – turned out where they met went out of business and they had kind of trickled into the ‘no longer active’ category until my mom, a random new friend who also tatted and I tried to track them down. Now we’ve got a new meeting place, random walkers-in wanting to know about the group – really breathed new life into the group. I definitely look forward to our monthly meetings…and I’ll definitely bring your site up to everyone.
Leah, that’s great! Keep the group going. There are a lot of people wanting to learn to tat if they can only find a teacher. Can you be that for someone?
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I have, in the past, attempted to learn to tat. I have not been successful as of yet, but I have not given up! I still intend to learn!
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Kenna, definitely don’t give up! Tatting is so much fun, and easy once you get the hand of flipping the stitch. Happy tatting.
I tweeted at http://twitter.com/#!/kennarog/status/107683240332107776.
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I was drawn to the words, “Absolute Beginner.” Thas me. I’ve always been intrigued by tatting, but never had anyone to teach me. I did some bobbin lace ages ago, which I quite liked, but drifted away from. Child rearing does that to one. I was admiring a tatting shuttle in an antique shop in a coop where my MIL had a shop. The owner wasn’t there. My MIL grabbed it and gave it to me. I tried to pay, but she said not to bother. So I’ve felt guilty about this little trinket every since, and haven’t ever learned to use it. I’m sure it’s lonely, and I should appease my guilt by learning to make something.
Catnap, someday I’d like to learn bobbin lace too. It looks so beautiful. One shuttle is always lonely without a friend. Happy tatting.
Seeing bobbin lace totally blows my mind! I can’t even imagine trying to learn it.
I would love to learn to tat – I tried many years ago but was all ‘fingers and thumbs’. I will check out your tutorials and have another go. Please enter me into your draw
CarolR, I hope my videos can help you. Please keep me posted!
My dear Great Aunt tatted and crocheted. I have pot holders, doll clothes and doilies made by Aunt Madeline that remind me of her when I find these treasures carefully saved in my drawers. Someday I would like to learn to make these designs. Then I can use pretty pot holders and doilies without wearing out my old treasures.
Joanne, what a treasure to have your great aunt’s tatting and crocheting. You can definitely make your own; give it a try. Happy tatting!
I want to learn how to do this so bad so when I saw this I knew I had to try to win. Thanks for this giveaway.
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I’ve never tried tatting, but I’ve wanted to try for a while, and since finding your blog through Craft Gossip and reading the tutorials, I’d love to win and finally have a go! Thanks for the chance to win!
Read your blog often. Keep up the writing and tatting. Thanks for the chance to win. Robert, in northern Iowa.
Robert, so nice to have some guys around here! Welcome, and happy tatting.
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I have never tatted but all of the exsquisite work makes me want to try!
thepricklypinecone, Do try! Tatting is so much fun and really easy once you get the hang of it. My video tutes should help with the initial learning curve. Enjoy!
My sister has been tatting for several years, and I would like to learn.
Cheryl, do try! But I warn you, it can be addictive.
I am such a beginner -
I need supplies for tatting that is for certain -
Do you think you would fit in the box – lol
I need someone to teach me –
I have only tried needle tatting – i don’t have a shuttle –
My story is short and sweet -
Tatting is beautiful & I don’t know what i am doing – roflol
But I will figure it out someday !!!
Thank you for the fun
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PattyC, well, if I hunker down really small…
Enjoy your new tatting adventure!
Thank you very much for the opportunity for this giveaway. I’m still a beginner in tatting — soon I will attempt split ring!!!
Tara, glad to hear you are tatting well enough to plan on split rings soon, good job. Keep checking back, and I’ll get to that (and lots of other topics) soon enough.
I wasn’t really familiar with tatting until I happened upon this blog. It blew my mind! I can crochet pretty well and I can knit poorly but this looks like it’s right up my alley. I just love how delicate it looks. If the local craft store was open right now, I think I’d have to jump in the car and do some supply shopping! Thanks for the great lessons!
Kristen, I tried crocheting and knitting too, and also could not do either well. I have a basic grasp of both, but my tension is always too tight and it knots up. So when my mom suggested tatting (remembering that my Gram did it) it fit me perfectly. Tighter is better! Give tatting a try, and keep me posted on your progress!
Hi. I’m really interested in entering your contest but I confused with the directions. “Please leave a comment for each entry…”, since I’m unsure what each entry means this is the only comment I left, which I understand will not count (“your other entries will not count”). I’m going to leave a comment anyway.
I learned to tat basic stitches years ago but didn’t complete anything. My grandmothers were very crafty but I don’t remember either of them tatting. I would like to get much better at tatting and hope your website will help.
Sherry, this entry definitely counts. If you want more entries, just tweet or post this on Facebook or other site, and leave a comment with a link to your post. So glad to hear you are trying to tat again, and hope my blog can help you! Keep me posted on your progress.
Your tutorials are fantastic! I am still a relatively new tatter, taught myself using you tibe videos and books about 9 months ago. I have fallen in love with this art so deeply that though a newbie myself, I am starting a tatting drop in at my local library to share what I know and hopefully learn from more experienced tatters who come out. Your give away would be a very helpful tool for any newbies who come unprepared. Thank-you for the opportunity to win such a great beginners kit!
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i have never tatted, but i am so wanting to do this. i especially want to learn
the lacing. i have downloaded every video on tatting i can find because i am
a visual learner.
i have been out of work for almost 2 years due to the fact i have been placed on oxygen 24-7, so this giveaway is a wonderful gift if i win
thank you