Tatting for the Complete Beginner, part 3, chains
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Chains. Part 3 of my Tatting series for the very, very, very beginner. Here, I'll show you how to make chains between the rings we made in the last video. Keep a look out for the next installment, where I'll show you how to read patterns!
Here are some links for tools and materials like the ones I am using in this video. Not all are readily available on Amazon, so I have included some suitable replacements. If you would like links unaffiliated with Amazon, please scroll down. Also note that these are Amazon Affiliate links, and as an Amazon Associate I potentially earn a very small commission from qualifying purchases.
DMC Pearle Thread size 12: amzn.to/41Ag4gc
DMC Cotton size 10: amzn.to/48yqnUi
Lacis Large (3 ⅝") Tatting Shuttle: amzn.to/4aDBHAD
Small Tatting Shuttle with removable bobbin: amzn.to/3tDrMKr
Small "click" Style Tatting Shuttles, set of 2: amzn.to/478FbIp
Crochet Hook Set for joining picots: amzn.to/3RWfczi
If you would like alternatives to Amazon, here are some unaffiliated links to storefronts that I use often:
www.lacis.com
www.vansciverbobbinlace.com
Instagram: / bryce.historically
Music: “Childhood Home” by Bireli Snow, epidemicsound.com
I decided this year to learn tatting and lace making and started with the shuttle. While I can normally learn things from books very easily, I instantly regretted it, tossed the book and shuttles in a drawer, and took up needle tatting instead. I came across your videos and instantly loved them. I fished the shuttles out of the junk drawer, and in a matter of days, with the help of your amazingly informative videos, I am on the road to loving shuttle tatting. Thank you so very much :)
Yay! I’m so glad I could help. 😊
Thank you so much. This is by far the best set of tatting tutorials on UA-cam and I'm amazed you're not overwhelmed with comments and subs. I can crochet and knit expertly but not tatting as my Nanna was too ill to teach me by the time I was old enough to ask. I'm 58 this year and have set myself a personal challenge to learn to tat and to make some trim to then use. I've already learned so much from you and can make a ring and picots! Go Me!!... just about to watch this video on chains and really looking forward to your teaching. I have my eye on an old edging pattern but I'm not quite there yet lol!
Yay! Wow, congratulations! If you can make rings and picots, then you can make anything tatting has to offer. Getting the knots to slide is definitely the hardest part. My next tatting video will be on how to read patterns, if that would be helpful. Coming soon. (And thank you for the compliment. 😊)
You make tatting look SO easy!! Excellent tutorial!! Still struggling but now my shuttle isn't flying across the room! Thank you so much!!!
I'm 58, married for 40 years. My husbands grandmother taught me how to crochet, and I love making afghans and blankets for our family members. She also tatted, which amazed me, watching the shuttle pass so quickly through her hands. I never had the time - or the initiative - to learn to tat... Crochet was about all I could handle. Knitting just confused me, lol. But your videos now have piqued my interest again, so I'm finally learning!!! ❤
I just want to thank you so, so, so much for these tutorials. It's something incredibly strange that I can better understand your instructions in English than in my native language. I thought that this needle would be lying in my handmade box forever until I found you. Big, big thanks for you again!!!
Thank you so so much for this series!!!! I saw a kid on tiktok tatting and I was immediately determined to learn. Your videos are clear and to the point while not being vague. With just a couple of tries I get everything no problem. I greatly appreciate you! 😊
Oh, I’m so glad to hear this! Welcome to the world of tatting 😁
I seen the same kid and went out and bought all the equipment the next day 😂😂😂
What a brilliant set of tutorials. Please can we have more! I have never managed to work out how to do tatting from books but I am going to give it a go after watching you tutorials. Thank you.
Coincidentally that’s what I’m editing now. “How to read tatting patterns” (or “how to tat from patterns” ... something like that). It’s been a while coming, and will probably be another week or two, but it’s next up. 😊 Thank you for the kind comment.
My grandmother tried to teach me how to tat when I was young (like 60 years ago!) but she didn't quite know either. Someone had showed her when she was a child but she couldn't remember the basics of it. You make it seem so easy I wish she was still with us so she could see your way to tat. She taught me how to crochet, knit, macrame, and other crafts but there weren't any books or instructions on how to tat back then. I never did learn how to join the rings and it's so simple I feel silly now.
Heavily considering learning tatting. I need lace for a little creepy doll I am making, but I don't want a whole spool of it. While this would mean buying about the same amount of material, it looks more fun than just getting lace. Plus, I already like sewing and friendship bracelets. Very nice tutorial.
I love these easy to follow instructions
Thank you 😊
I love tatting lace and learned tatting many years ago. Thanks for teaching others this technique. It's very relaxing to make lace
You’re tatting videos are so very peaceful and every one is a great help to me as a beginner. I have been doing quite a bit of pretty fast & various knitting, smocking and hand sewing techniques for more than 25 years, along with some basic crochet and embroidery, but I’d never tried tatting until this past week with your videos.
I want to learn to make collar & sleeve edgings (trim) for my granddaughter’s hand-smocked dresses - because handmade tatting is quite expensive (though I’m glad it is, hoping the tatters are getting more income for all their work).... Tatting does not seem to be as popular as it used to be ... it’s quite hard to find much or many varieties of handmade tatting in heirloom/fine fabric shops compared to 25-30 yrs ago.
Honestly, I had thought this was gonna be easier for me & that I’d catch on much quicker than I have with so much other hand work experience , but this has not been the case, so far this week. I’ve switched to thicker thread in hopes to better see what I’m doing (50+ year old eyes + a small iPhone screen). It’s a lovely kind of new & peaceful & much needed challenge to help me push stress & anxiety off the forefront of my mind.
I wanted to ask if there’s anyway that you could zoom-in closer for at least some
of the little things that you’re doing, especially picots & connections?
I do understand if you can’t zoom-in because of photography & camera
set-ups, etc.... I just thought I’d ask.
Thank you so much for sharing these videos & having so much patience to teach in these videos - plus creating the videos & adding peaceful music - all while having a family & home to care for.
Also, I love hearing your children & the animals in the background.
Sincerely, Mrs.Olson
I have officially finished your whole series, and I’m tatting away! Could you do a tutorial to show us what to do when our tatting shuttle runs out of thread, though?
Oh yes. It's next on my list!
I just after a lifetime got new tatting shuttles. I was taught when I was very young from a neighbor. I learned to tattoo a completely different way from what I see on UA-cam videos. I finally remembered the hand motions I was taught, now I plan to refresh and get back into tatting. Thanks for your videos - I will continue to tattoo the way my neighbor taught me years ago.
thank you so much! i just started tatting and after getting needle tatting down i realised that some patterns are just not as pretty as i want them to be bc. the needle comes in the way. I started shuttle tatting 4 days ago. these tutorials are so helpful!
Thank you for these wonderful videos! My sister recommended I try tatting. I floundered for a few days, but watching your videos made it click, and I can tell I'm really going to enjoy this hobby.
Wonderful tutorials!!! Yours are the only ones I have been able to follow. I gave up on shuttle tatting and picked up needle tatting years back. I had to quit doing that because the needle was too hard for me to grasp. Your tutorials have inspired me to try shuttle tatting again!
Wonderful!
Holo there, this was an amazing demonstration, you have an amazing talent! I hope one day I will be good enough to make a doily! Thank you for the help.
Wow! You are a wonderful teacher!! Thank you for being so generous with the knowledge you share on the art of tatting!! I sm so incredibly lucky to have come across your videos on tattong...
Thank you so much!
PLEASE make more videos to show intermediate techniques! That would be SO helpful! You are an excellent teacher!!❤️
Thank you, I will. 😊
Yay! I wanted to learn the next step and now I can practice this chain! Thank you!
Thank you so much for the deatiled explaining. I've been wanting to tat since I was a kid and now I''m finaly able to learn and i made it through the 3 patterns you showed so easily, I will keep practicing but I had to comment something cuz it was really helful, thank you so much!
This series of videos truly inspired me to start tatting! Hope to see more videos on this topic from you. It looks so elegant!
I have now watched the first 3 videos in your tutorial series- they are the best I have found by a lot. I am now actually making the rings and chains rather than just a mess. Thank you so much!
Yay! You’re welcome. 😊
Love your videos!
Your tatting tutorials are incredible! Thank you so much for all of them. You do such a great job explaining it and making it look easy. Can you make one on how to
1) finish a project / tie in the ends
2) add beads
Or 3) how to keep the ball of thread attached when you make larger products?
Ok. I'll add them to my list. 😊 I'm slow making videos these days, but those are all good ideas.
I'm having real problems getting the 2nd ring to close correctly. I see you and everyone else pulling on the shuttle to close rings, but that's just not working for me.
So, 1st ring was OK - I pulled on the free tail and tied it off, then I did stitches along the tail to make a chain and tied that off. OK again. Then I wrapped the shuttle thread around my left hand - pinching the chain, taking it across the back of the hand and then under to pinch and form a loop, and that's what I see everyone else doing; then I did stitches onto that, and the only thread to pull after that was the shuttle thread.
But the thread closest to the shuttle is what formed the stitches, which means the most recent shuttle end is the bit that slides over the top of the core thread. The core thread is between the chain and the new stitches, and the ring closes away from the chain, because pulling the shuttle only tightens the stitches on the core thread.
I can't make anything close up together unless, after the initial ring, I ALWAYS work every subsequent design element onto the tail thread. HELP!!!
Ok, so you need to flip the knots from the shuttle thread onto the hand thread. It's kind of tricky, but pivotally important. I have a video about just that step called "Flipping Tatting Knots" that might help you. Let me know how it goes. 😊
Thank you for this beautiful tutorial and God bless you and your family and Jesus loves you 🌼🦋
I can Tat at least the basic =). How I can cut the thread and saw it without undoing it? Are you planning to make more tatting videos? You are an amazing instructor. Thank you so much for these three lessons and the reading pattern too.
I always wondered how you do that I am going to do that looks easy
Thank you for making these videos, they're very educational! Are you using a different colour for the chain here to make it clearer to beginners which thread is for the chain and which is for the rings and picots, or is it common to use different colours to make the product more decorative?
Both 😉 For the purposes of this video, I thought it would be easier to see if they were different colors, but making multi-colored lace is pretty common as well.
thank you so much
When making chains, do you have to use a second thread? I know this a silly question, but wanted to check.
Yes, chains need a second thread. Rings only need one thread, because the knots loop back making the ring, but the knots for chains are in a row so they need that second thread. 😊
Thank you for this wonderful tutorial! Do you think you will manage the video about reading patterns, too? Or did I miss that?
It’s next up. Being edited now. 😊
this is a really good video! I do have to wonder, however, how do you end threads, and hide the beginning and ending threads?
Great question. I’ll add it to my list of videos to make. 😊 There are, of course, quite a few different ways to do it. One is called a magic loop, for which there are other UA-cam videos available if you search for “tatting hide ends” or “tatting magic loop.” You can also make fairly long tails, and thread them onto a needle and sew them back up inside the knots. If you don’t want to deal with any of this, especially if you have yardage, you can lay the threads back along the sewing edge and sew them down to whatever its going on.
... I just realized tatting is everything I did while making friendship bracelets. I need to get a shuttle
Your videos are so helpful!! But I still have one thing I just can't quite get right. The loop around my hand is always getting tighter and tighter, so tight I sometimes can't even get the shuttle through... Any tips on how to avoid that or make the loop bigger again?
Do you have to use a separate thread for the chain? Or could you use the same one? These videos are awesome, btw! Thank you for taking the time to put together such clear and helpful instruction!
Thank you! Yes, you can absolutely use the same thread. Just wind your shuttle, and then don’t cut it off. 😊
@@BryceHistorically thank you!
Ok so you’ve got a green and a white thread. What did you do to get the loop and the green thread together?
Hello, do you have a video of joining the picots a bit zoomed in? I don't really get how to join the picots. 😅
You know, I made a video on flipping a tatting knot super up close with a giant thread. I should probably do the same for joining Picos as well. I’ll put it on my list. 😊
Thanks
I’ve seen videos where the 2nd thread is on a shuttle (your green thread here) and some where it is on a ball as you have here. Maybe I’m trying to overthink this but WHAT is the difference? Why one instead of the other? Any difference?
Aha! Yes, a subject for another video. The second shuttle can be easier than a ball because it holds the thread without rolling away. But, you can also switch shuttles and make rings with either one. You can switch colors this way, and you can make some different types of patterns, too. 😊
Is it alright if I dont flip my knot, I can tat just fine without it but I dont know if it's 'allowed'
Well, tatting is an art, so anything is “allowed,” but if you don’t flip the knot it will have too much space between the rings to join without a lot of extra string between them. If you’re making knots and they are sliding, then you have good tension, so that’s good. I have another video focusing on the flipping part called “Flipping Tatting Knots,” where I use a giant shuttle and thick yarn to demonstrate so you can see exactly what’s going on. I hope that helps. 😊
Could you use embroidery floss?
Absolutely. I’ve actually had a lot of success with using single strands of rayon embroidery floss. Makes a very beautiful, soft lace. 😊
@@BryceHistorically thank you. I've got some colours that I'm not that fond of.. Thought it might be good for practice.
What do you do next?
Start reading patterns! (Or making up your own) I’ll have a video on that soon. 😊
Thank you for the tatting info, very informative, very clear ♥️
How to join picot to chain
and a other ring