ShuttleBirds Tatting Guild 

of Spokane, Washington, USA

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P.O. Box 2622 
Spokane, WA 99220

 

 

Basic Tatting Kit:

~Some type of Container to hold your Tatting Kit

~Shuttles (or Needles), 

~Scissors or thread cutting device, 

~Crochet Hook, 

~Un-Tatting tool (pick), 

~Picot Gauges,

~Hackle pliers,

and any other tool you usually use when tatting.

 

Additional Ideas for the Basic Tatting Kit

~Magnifying Glass, or cheap reading glasses  

(for those small threads, especially for undoing mistakes)

~some type of intense light (for night-tatting)

~a white background fabric (like a sheet, for tatting black threads)

If you are using beads - 

~12 X 12 piece of Velux (so beads won't scatter)

 

Level of Skill in Tatting Techniques

Beginner:

Intermediate:

Advanced:

o        Rings

o        Chains

o        Picots

o        Shuttle joins

o        Lock joins

o        Continuous thread method

o        Shoelace trick

o        Long picots

o        Split rings

o        Magic thread method

o        Reading Pattern & Symbols

 

 

o     Node stitch

o     Dimpled rings

o     Double/triple picots

o      Mock picots (climbing out)

o      Rings off chains (hanging rings)

o      Beads

o      Block tatting

o      Padded tatting

o     Twisted picots

o      Frontside/backside tatting

o     Tatting with buttons

o     Josephine knot

o     Advanced beading (Beanile-style)

o     Downward facing picots

o   Celtic Knotted Picot

o        Split chains

o        Self-closing mock rings

o        Rolled tatting

o        Interlocking rings

o        Catherine wheel joins

o        Rings off split rings

o        Celtic tatting

o        Bobble tatting

o        Cluny tatting

o        Hanging Cluny

o        3D tatting

o        Multiple row tatting

o        Single shuttle split ring

o        Needle lace filling

o    Form stitch (something similar to a Cluny leaf but square in appearance)

o        Multiple shuttles (more than two)

o        Pearl tatting

o        Wire tatting

o        Square rings

o        Mignonette stitch

o        Half Moon Split Ring

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Last modified: January 12, 2009