All thumbs
 

I travel at least once a month and need to have something too do while I'm in my hotel room. So I thought tatting would be a good pasttime. I just had my first lesson, talk about being all thumbs I think I'm the master! I think I finally got it in making the double stitches after ripping out the many bad ones. Guess just like anything else, it's practice, practice and more practice.

Well... I never took any formal lessons...but after I found a shuttle in my gmas stuff I tried to learn how.... what a mess! But I know I didn't spend near the time trying to learn it as I have with my quilting. Enjoy!

Shuttle tatting is one craft I just could not get the hang of.

I love tatting! Learned in high school Home Ec class got to leave and go to an elderly lady's home to learn. I have since taught 4 H little girls an and adult group. It does take practice and a hat pin is handy for picking out those knots!

My grandmother taught me how to tat when I was a teen. I made many doilies, and the lace for my sister's wedding dress. We could tat without looking (except for the picots)! Just keep the thread on your left hand loose, and you'll get it in no time! And don't make the knots too tight.

I found the shuttle of my DGM, but I wish I could have seen some of her lace. That must have been lost or 'found' by some of the other relatives. I have had to give up of crochet and knitting,so tatting is out!

And I thought tatting was truly a lost art. I remember my Grandmother tatting in my youth. She did such beautiful work. Wish I had taken the time to learn.

please show us your work, I would love to see it.

My paternal grandmother taught me tatting, cross stitch, Swedish embroidery, embroidery, and crochet (which I hated and still do hate). My maternal grandmother quilted but I never learned how. :( There were no knitters in my family. I haven't done any tatting for about 60 years but I do remember I could do it quite easily but she never taught me how to join the results when the bobbin ran out ... not very useful if you can't do that.