Needle Tatting Explanation of Stitches

Needle tatting common stitches. Master these and you will master tatting. One of the best methods of learning is to just practice the stitches - before actually tackling a pattern. Doing this first, you will find that following a pattern will be all the more pleasurable because you will finish your project is much faster!!

Double Stitch (d s) – Two half stitches made with the shuttle, forming one stitch.

Ring (r) - The required number of double stitches made with the shuttle thread alone, and drawn up into a ring.

Chain (ch) – A scallop or cord made with the ball thread and the shuttle thread, not drawn into a ring.

Slip Stitch (sl st) – Thread passed under the work to the next point indicated by directions.

Picot (p) – A loop left between stitches; (1 p) a long picot; (sm p) a very small picot.

Josephine Knot (j k) – A ring formed of single stithces, like the first half of a double stitch; it may be of four to twelve stitches.

Join – A loop drawn through a picot, shuttle passed through it, and thread drawn tightly. Or with the ball thread; or thread tied around.

The term, 3 ps 2 d s between of any number, means, as many double stitches before and after as between.

Sets of Stitches (sts) 4-4, or any numbers, are single stitches of the state number, like the first half of a double stitch; then the same number of single stitches, like the last half of a double stitch; this is one set of stitches.

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