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!
Tag Archives: double stitch
Teens Try Tatting for the First Time
What happens when you combine a room full of middle schoolers, an aspiring teacher, a pile of thread and a mountain of cardboard? It gets interesting…
Tatting Tip: If the Stitch Still Won’t Flip
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
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?
How tight should you make the double stitch? Here are some photos for comparison.
A Few Thoughts on Tatting
My brief musings on tatting, knotting and designing.
Tatting Tip: Taking out Stitches
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.
Reading Patterns and Making Projects, Part 2
Continuing the last lesson on reading patterns, this tutorial adds chains, very small picots, rosettes and rounds with shuttle and ball thread and two shuttles.
Tatting Tip: Keeping Tension after a Reverse
How to keep your tension tight after reversing work, or between each ring and chain.
Tatting Tip: A Crocheter’s Hand Position
Crocheters often find a modified hand position more comfortable to tat with.
Tatting Tip: Which is the Right Side?
Are you puzzled by which side of your tatting is the right side? Read on for an easy way to tell which side is the front side of the stitches.
Tatting Tip: Which Half Double Stitch is Which
This picture tutorial will help you identify each half of the double stitch separately.