Tatting Tip: Keeping the Working Thread in Place

March 2, 2012

Here’s a trick to keep your working thread in place when you relax your hand to make the flip in tatting. It saves the circulation in your little finger, too!

Tatting Tip: Leave a Little Thread on Your Shuttle

January 21, 2012

Here is a little trick I use to wind my shuttles more easily, and that also lets me use every last bit of my thread easily, keeping tension and without finger tatting. What’s the trick? Leave a little thread from the last project wound on the shuttle.

Tatting Tip: Hiding Thread Ends in a Ring-Only Pattern

January 4, 2012

Are you making a ring-only pattern, like a hen-n-chicks pattern, and need to add more thread? Here’s how to you hide the extra ends when you only have rings.

Tatting Tip: Recommendations for Buying a Tatting Shuttle

December 29, 2011

A few recommendations on buying your first tatting shuttle. Spike or no? Bobbin or not? How big? Which brand? Your questions answered here.

Tatting Tip: If the Stitch Still Won’t Flip

December 2, 2011

Are you having trouble getting that double stitch to flip? Here is another common beginner’s mistake.

Tatting Tip: If the Stitch Won’t Flip

November 30, 2011

Are you having trouble getting that double stitch to flip? Are you making this common beginner’s mistake?

Tatting Tip: How Tight Should I Tat?

November 22, 2011

How tight should you make the double stitch? Here are some photos for comparison.

Tatting Tip: Avoiding the Folded Join

October 31, 2011

Don’t want to make a folded join? Here’s how to join the last ring to the first WITHOUT using a folded join.

Tatting Tip: Taking out Stitches

October 29, 2011

Do you ever find that you don’t tat quite perfectly? Oh no, stitches to take out! Here is a far too detailed photo tutorial on how to take tatting stitches out.