Has anyone had a go at tatting? It is very similar to very fine crochet but done with a shuttle or needle. I think that needle looks easier and this is I think the more modern way. My library sells beautiful books that are considered out of date for 20p each and I bought one yesterday on Tatting. I've looked how to do it on Youtube and it looks quite easy. It is basically more like lace, so lovely for heirlooms etc. I am definitely going to try it
So awful that the books that are not sold, go into landfill. Trouble is that at only 20p, I buy and look at and then don't want to keep some, so as I can't bin them must find a way of passing them on. If it stops raining I'll put them in a box at my front gateway. I'm sure the cookery books will go.
They go into landfill? I would have thought they were pulped and recycled?
Haven't ever heard of tatting, post a picture of whatever you make June
Karen Alpha chick to: Smudge, Matisse and Bluebell
Chief servant to Marley the cat
Remembering Weeps, Rexie, Sage, Cassie, Toffee, Captain Gabby, Commander Nugget, Ronnie, Juno, Special Poetry and Reading Casper, Tigger, Tophenanall Rembrandt, Chestnut, Tiddly, Willow, Mango, Coco, Dorian Grey and Pokey.
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I always thought tatting was lacemaking, with all those little hanging bobbins. I was obviously wrong!
I did try lacemaking at the south of england show, and it wasnt too complicated really ( ) but what put me off was wondering, other than bookmarks, what on earth you do with it when it's finished
You must post pics of your tatting - both doing and the end result!
It is a form of lacemaking Helen but done with either a shuttle or 1 long needle. Ordinary lace edging can be made as can bigger items like collars, table mats and even items for the home depending on the thickness of the thread used. It is something that used to be done a many years ago but like crochet is just having a revival. Like crochet, it is held with one hand and worked with the other. Something Helen that I think you would be good at
I am getting lessons from Youtube, which has some very good tuition videos. If interested, go onto Youtube and type in shuttle tatting or needle tatting in the search. If I ever get to make anything before next year is out, I'll show you
As for the books being dumped. This is what the librarian told me happens to them, they go into landfill. Such a shame when books are so expensive. The reason for them selling them so cheaply is to enable the public to have them. Apparently, if they try and give them away, people don't like to take them.
kate egg wrote:I thought it was about making rugs... (tatty rugs)
Looks a bit like Tunisian crochet, but very fine....
When I was a kid during the war years when things were scarce, my mum made all our rugs from old strips of cloth and very good they were too. She worked out the patterns for them and then sat in front of the old kitchen range working away. Something else that will no doubt be revived sooner or later.
I learned to tat June in the early 1980's. Started doing the simple circle with picots which I attached to the borders of hankies. Somewhere I have a hankie, most were given as presents. I also made a couple of mats, and tatted a border onto a linen mat, using a slip stitch like I used for the hankies.
I also tatted a row of circles and picots which I attached onto the family christening dress, made from my 1965 wedding dress.
Sadly I haven't done any tatting for years, and I doubt I could see clearly enough to execute a ring, but I loved doing it, and found it a better action for my hands than crochet work, which I had abandoned in the early 1970's.
Hope you master it - a friend in our village gave me a few lessons to start with, and then I was away.
My Gran and I learned to tat together about 25 years ago. She produced many more finished items than I did because she had more time.
I looked it up again recently as my children are now old enough to learn, there is a lot of information on YouTube.
I don't have a shuttle or the time to try at the moment, but I remember the basic stitches can produce pretty work quite quickly?
I have made lace with bobbins and a pillow more recently, and still have the kit - I don't think the two skills are at all similar, although the finished product cab be used the same way.
There is a local museum which has a display of tatted collars; I could stand for hours just looking at them!
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albertajune wrote: So awful that the books that are not sold, go into landfill. Trouble is that at only 20p, I buy and look at and then don't want to keep some, so as I can't bin them must find a way of passing them on. If it stops raining I'll put them in a box at my front gateway. I'm sure the cookery books will go.
Don't you have a recycling bag for paper and card? The council should provide one along with your bin and the box for glass.
) but what put me off was wondering, other than bookmarks, what on earth you do with it when it's finished 
