TATTING

Do you like to tat? Do you want to learn how to tat? If you answered yes to either question, the free tatting patterns may be for you. There are tutorials available for those wanting to learn how to tat.

Less thread ends to hide when tatting makes completing a tatting project easier. Learn how to do the Continuous Thread Method (CTM) and lessen the work of hiding

Tatting is using a a needle or shuttle to create lace for garments, doilies, and other durable goods

Who created the split ring? The answer is Ann Orr. She describes it in her books in the 1930s and '40s, but the technique wasn't developed until Mary Sue Kuhn wrote her book, The Joy of Split Ring Tatting, in 1985.

Once you start really to use beads, there's so many ways in which you can use them to further embellish your tatting.

Beads are a very popular way of decorating tatting and can be very pretty if you chance on just the right combination.

Wire has been used to finish off tatting since the turn of the 20th Century and a number of different uses have been developed over the years.

With tatting one of the many hurdles a beginner has to cross is that of tension between elements of the work. It isn't easy to get the neat, tight look of the experienced worker with the stitches lying "just so"

There are two ways in which tatting can be mounted for use on clothing and items such as bags, towels and so on.

Good tension is one of the most important aspects of the appearance of good tatting.

In this article I thought it would be a good idea to consider ways of making a neat beginning to a piece of tatting and how to finish off ends.

There are a number of different techniques that are included in tatting right from the beginning but a lot of new tatters are confused about picots.

My introduction to tatting and advice for the beginner.

This article discusses home arts while focusing on those that have fallen out of fashion and therefore are uncommon among modern project enthusiasts.

The Shoe Lace Trick (often abbreviated as SLT or ST) is a simple maneuvre which has been used more and more often in the last few years.

You can, of course, thread beads onto very long picots, direct from the ball or the shuttle thread, as well as when you join to the picot.

There are a number of different ways in which you can add beads to the centre of a ring rather than to its edge

Another very simple way of using beads is by stringing them onto the shuttle thread and using them between rings instead of chains.

Needle tatters have it all - a small, handy tool that's light to carry, they don't constantly want new, increasingly beautiful and expensive shuttles and crochet hooks and their equipment takes up far less space than the shuttle tatter!

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Choose a needlework loop which is a couple of inches bigger all round than your binding (to give yourself room to work your needle) and mount the fabric in the hoop so that it is drum tight.

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You don't know how to sew? Don't worry. There are several great places to take sewing lessons in Louisville.