Here’s a very clever tip from Donna in Florida.
Heather, I have tatted for 25 years and teach shuttle and needle tatting. A lady e-mailed me to mend her Grandmothers very long and wide tatted tablecloth. After tatting for a long time, my left pointer finger
became very sore. I took a piece of satin material 2 1/2 by 1 1/8 and sewed the ends together to fit over my left pointer finger. This helped so much. Then I took a pen and put two lines on the satin to make my picots. The marks
were so handy to make perfect picots. Please add this tatting tip to your comments. Donna
sounds like a good idea. could you supply a picture?
I, too, get sore fingers when tatting a lot. I took a piece of wide stretch lace, wrapped it aroung my finger and stitched through all layers. I then trimmed off the excess. This leaves a rough, sort of ragged seam which helps keep the thread from sliding off the fingergard. The lace also keeps the thread from sliding. I have tried making these from leather and elastic, but this lace does the trick! I love it so much I wear one on my little finger and one on my middle finger (I tat weird). When I’m really tatting a lot, I also wear one on the other hand.
Hi, I actually wanted to comment in regards to your blogpost from December 2011 about scotopic sensitivity syndrome, and tell you THANK YOU! My 7 year old son was just tested for that & he is going to need peach colored overlays to read with. So many things you wrote in that post reminded me of him. He’s struggled so much with reading & just isn’t progressing. Before he was diagnosed I noticed that he would read the sight words flashcards just fine. He’d breeze through them. What I didn’t catch on to was that the flashcards were on colored paper. Then we’d sit down to read a book from school & it was like he had no idea on some of the words (the books are always black words on white pages) we just practiced that he seemed to know so well just minutes earlier. Since his diagnosis I’ve tried to get him to describe to me what he sees, but it’s hard for him to put into words exactly what he’s seeing, so it was really nice reading your blog post. I just wanted to say THANK YOU!
I have a pattern for needle tatting and it reads, chain: 2ND and P with 1R. What is it asking me to do? I can’t figure out what “2ND” meand.