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!
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Blocking Your Tatted Project
How to block your tatted project once you are finished making it. That is, how to get any wrinkles and dips out of it, and get all the rings and chains going in the direction they are supposed to, so it is presentable for public display.
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: How Tight Should I Tat?
How tight should you make the double stitch? Here are some photos for comparison.
Sewing in the Ends, Method 2
Here is another method of hiding thread ends. This time we will weave them back and forth between the stitches.
Sewing in Ends, Method 1
When you finish tatting your project, you still have a few things to do to be completely done. You first need to hide those thread tails, and here is my favorite method of sewing in ends.
Starting with Two Threads and Hiding Ends Under Picots
This tutorial with video shows how to start tatting with two threads and hide ends in a way that creates less bulk. Also covers hiding ends under picots.
Question for Experienced Tatters
Here’s a question for experienced tatters: What does a beginning tatter need to learn to be successful? For beginning tatters: what do you struggle with, and what do you want to learn?