How to Tat with Lots of Beads

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

Figuring out Patterns

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

Choosing the Right Shuttle

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

Tatting Tip: Choosing Thread Sizes

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

Tatting Tip: Keeping the Working Thread in Place

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

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

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.