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.

Don’t Make this Terrible Thread Mistake

January 9, 2012

What would you do if you were surrounded by a room full of gorgeous thread and were told you could take them all home…but there’s a catch. You only have a backpack and it also has to fit your clothes, books and toothbrush. What do you do?

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.