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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Shuttle Tatting for Beginners: A Step-by-Step Guide to Knots, Lace Patterns, and Techniques with 15 Easy Projects Including Rings, Chains, Doilies, Je

Shuttle Tatting for Beginners: A Step-by-Step Guide to Knots, Lace Patterns, and Techniques with 15 Easy Projects Including Rings, Chains, Doilies, Je

Medhurst, Tressie

Paperback

JewelryGeneral Needlework

ISBN13: 9798180785596
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 9 2026
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.20 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
The thread either flips or it doesn't. Most tatting books spend two paragraphs on that moment. This one spends an entire chapter.

You've probably watched someone tat and thought it looked impossible. Maybe you tried once, the thread locked up, nothing closed, and you put it down convinced it wasn't for you.

That experience is the most common beginning in this craft, and it traces to one cause: the flip was never explained with the depth it requires.

What Fifteen Projects Actually Build

  • Learn the double stitch through a dedicated chapter on the flip, with a testing method for each half
  • Close your first ring in Project 1 and your first complete bookmark in Project 2
  • Form consistent picots with a gauge so each joining point aligns exactly when the design needs it
  • Navigate reverse work and two-thread chains until both become automatic
  • Read standard tatting notation before Project 5 so any published pattern becomes accessible
  • Progress through size 10, size 20, and size 40 thread with guidance specific to each weight
  • Block and finish a five-round hexagonal doily that holds shape and reads as professional handmade lace

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