Level of Skill in Tatting Techniques

 

Beginner: Rings Chains Picots Shuttle joins Lock joins Continuous thread method Shoelace trick Long picots Split rings Magic thread trick Reading patterns and symbols

Intermediate: Node stitch Dimpled rings Double and triple picots Mock picots (climbing out) Rings off chains (hanging rings) Beads Block tatting Padded tatting Twisted picots Front side/back side tatting Josephine knot Advanced beading (Beanile style) Downward facing picots Celtic knotted picot

Advanced: Split chains Self-closing mock rings Rolled tatting Interlocking rings Catherine wheel joins Rings off split rings Celtic tatting Bobble tatting Cluny tatting Hanging cluny 3D tatting Multiple row tatting Single shuttle split ring Needle lace filling Form stitch (similar to a cluny leaf but more square in appearance) Multiple shuttles (more than 2) Pearl tatting Wire tatting Square rings Mignonette stitch Half moon split ring

Basic Tatting Kit

Some type of Container to hold your Tatting Kit Shuttles (or Needles) Scissors Crochet Hook Frog-Stitch (Un-Tatting) tool Picot Gauges 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 frog stitching) some type of intense light (for night-tatting) a white background fabric (like a sheet, for tatting black threads) If you are using beads, a12"x12" piece of Velux so beads won't scatter

Last modified: November 11, 2010.