Learn Tatting

Good designs in cluny tatting

Learn tatting tutorial: In making this cluny tatting a shuttle with a pin on one rib is useful to adjust the weaving. When working with fine thread the joining may be either to a tiny picot left for it, or by looping the nearer thread around the chain. There are two new terms:

Petal learn tatting - One section of a flower made by weaving.

Twisted threads learn tatting - One ds, pass shute twice around ball thread (or more as the length requires), 1 ds. chiefly used for headings.

Meanwhile keep the shuttle thread tightly under the thumb and finger. Then make 1 or 1/2 ds, preferably 1/2 (see C), with shuttle on outer ball thread, pass shutte thread under the ball thread, near the ds, and across the two inner threads. It is now in position for weaving.

Begin the first stitch in weaving a petal of the cluny flower, see diag.12; pass shuttle (1) outward, under thread A, over thread B, under thread A; pass shuttle (2) inward, over thread A, under thread B, over thread A; these outward and inward movements of the shuttle make one stitch of the weaving. Twelve stitches form one petal. Narrow from the 10th stitch upward to form the point of petal,by pulling the weaving thread gently and firmly. Having formed the petal, hold the shuttle thread firmly under the thumb-nail, unwind the ball thread and pull it through the weaving until it is tight, then pull the shuttle thread tight to form the tip of the petal. If the ball thread twist in pulling, put a pin in the loop, pull tight, then remove pin. Make petals very close together.

Learn tatting notes:

Unless the thread is the very best, hard-twisted, the weaving will be uneven and the thread will break in drawing up petals. Silk, fibre silk and colored crochet cotton as shuttle thread for the flowers make a pleasing variety, with white or ecru cotton for the ball thread.

The learn tatting weaving begins at the base of a petal. Adjust stitches at first by pulling slightly the two inner ball threads B and A, to insure that the ball thread slips easily through; and try it often during the weaving. Adjust by pin or shuttle point; and by pulling outer and inner thread apart, this slips the weaving threads close and even, and gauges the width. Keep ball threads apart, the width needed to form the petal nicely. Have long weaving threads.

Keep ball thread around fingers untwisted, that the petal may be drawn tightly. Learn tatting weaving inward without turning the shuttle, keeps the thread even. After a little practice with the tension of the theads, very little adjusting will be needed, and it will bew found extremely interesting to weave the tiny petals into a semblance of delicate, lacybut firm little flowers.