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How to Tat with Lots of Beads

August 2, 2013

I am baffled as to how I cope with dealing with beads. The patterns I have tried request that so …

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Figuring out Patterns

July 30, 2013

Hi Heather, I have a pattern from way back, and I don’t understand it. Could help me figure the pattern …

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Choosing the Right Shuttle

May 14, 2013

Corry from Norway asked, “I’ve just been practising tatting for a month or so and I’d like some advise in …

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Tatting Tip: Choosing Thread Sizes

March 11, 2013

Joy asked, Looking through the patterns, I don’t always see instructions for what size thread to use. How do I …

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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