Yarnplayer shares her pattern for these lovely tatted earrings. Go to her blog post for the link to the PDF file.
Recent tatting tutorials
Enjoy these tatting tutes from Tatted Treasures:
Keeping Tension After a Reverse
Reading Patterns and Making Projects, Part 2
Recent tat tutes
Check out these recent tutorials from Tatted Treasures:
Which is the right side?
Reverse and turn work. An exploration.
A crocheter’s hand position
Tatting tutes and a giveaway
Recent tutorials from Tatted Treasures:
Too Scared for Two Shuttles?
On Buying Older Thread
And while you’re there, be sure to enter the drawing for a gorgeous white oak shuttle handmade by David Reed Smith. Go to the … Read More...
Recent tatting tutorials
Check out several new gems from Tatted Treasures:
(1) Is Your Shuttle Poking You?
(2) Putting Picots in their Place
(3) Starting with Two Threads and Hiding Ends Under Picots
Giveaway: Tatting goodies
Jon of Tat-a-Renda is having an excellent giveaway for her registered blog readers: two winners will receive one of the tatting stashes shown above. Go to her blog post to enter before September 20.
Share your experience
Heather of Tatted Treasures needs your help. She’s been building a comprehensive series of tutorials for beginning tatters. In a recent post, she said,
… Read More...Here’s a question for experienced tatters: What does a beginning tatter need to learn to be
Free pattern: Tatted dragonfly
Jane Eborall is sharing her pattern for this tatted and beaded dragonfly. Go to her blog post for the link to the tute.
Tat a moustache necklace
TotusMel of Needle Tatting and Other Nonsense is sharing her technique for making this simple tatted moustache necklace. Too cute! See the tute at her Instructables post.
Tatted gems and jewels
Our beloved Jon Yusoff, who lives in Malaysia, explains the names she gave to the tatted snowflakes in her book Elegant Tatting Gems. The names are almost as lovely as the designs. See Jon’s Tat-a-Renda blog post.
Recent tatting tutorials
Recent tatting tutes
Needle tat a chainmaille scarf
TotusMel of Needle Tatting and Other Nonsense has posted a tutorial for needle tatted chainmaille over on Instructables. This large-scale project, which uses sock yarn rather than thread, is a great way to teach yourself needle tatting. And when … Read More...
More basic tatting tutes for left handers
The lessons in tatting basics continue on Heather‘s Tatted Treasures blog:
The difficulty with the double stitch is to always “transfer,” or “flip,” the knot from the working thread to the shuttle thread. Once you’ve … Read More...
Tutorial: Double CTJ
Tatting maven Jane Eborall has come up with a double continuous thread join that produces beautiful results with minimal sewing. Check out her tute.
Tatting for beginners
If you’d like to try your hand at tatting but you don’t have a clue how to start, you’re in luck! Heather of Tatted Treasures has started a new series of tutorials for absolute beginners. Go to the first lesson… Read More...
Get the latest on lace
Check out Lace News: Breaking News for the International Handmade Lace Community. You’ll find alerts about worthy eBay listings, notices about events and competitions, articles about lacemaking, and more. One recent article links to Lace News’ playlist on YouTube, … Read More...
Tutorial: Tatting finger guard
Heather of Tatted Treasures shows us how to make a leather guard to protect the finger(s) during long hours of tatting. Awesome. See the tute. And be sure to bookmark this rockin new blog.
Giveaway: Jeweled shuttle
Diane of Lace-lovin Librarian is giving away a beautiful custom tatting shuttle. Go to her blog post to enter before the August 6 weekend.
Free tatting pattern: Rose Window
Jon Yusoff of Tat-a-Renda shares the pattern for her beautiful design, Rose Window. Go to her blog post for the link to the pattern.