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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: What is Tatting?
  • Chapter 2: Your Tatting Tool Kit
  • Chapter 3: First Steps in Tatting
    • 3.1. Making the Double Stitch
    • 3.2. Making a Picot
    • 3.3. Making a Ring
    • 3.4. Making a Chain
    • 3.5. Making a Join
  • Chapter 4: How to Read Tatting Patterns
  • Chapter 5: Basic Techniques and Definitions
    • 5.1. Attaching New Threads
    • 5.2. Bare Thread Space
    • 5.3. Clover
    • 5.4. Continuous Thread Method
    • 5.5. Core Thread
    • 5.6. Folded Join
    • 5.7. Josephine Knot
    • 5.8. Lark's Head Knot
    • 5.9. Lock Stitch
    • 5.10. Magic Thread Trick
    • 5.11. Mignonette Stitch
    • 5.12. Node Stitch
    • 5.13. Picot Gauge
    • 5.14. Reverse Work
    • 5.15. Shoelace Trick
    • 5.16. Split Chains
    • 5.17. Split Rings
    • 5.18. Square Knot
    • 5.19. Turn Work
    • 5.20. Up Join/Down Join
  • Chapter 6: Tatting Tips for Beginners
  • Chapter 7: Simple Tatting Patterns
    • 7.1. Butterfly
    • 7.2. Picot Flowers
    • 7.3. Ring and Chain Motif
    • 7.4. Beginning Edgings
      • a. Simple Chain
      • b. Joined Rings
      • c. Double Rings
      • d. Big and Little Rings
      • e. Ring and Chain
  • Chapter 8: Finishing/Blocking Techniques
  • Chapter 9: Needle Tatting
  • Conclusion

Title: LACE & TATTING: 1-2-3 Quick Beginners Guide to Lace and Tatting
Author/Designer: Kelly Winters
Format/Publication Date: TPB:2017
Publisher: Self, Middletown, DE, USA
Language: English
Page Count: 37
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 9" x 6"
ISBN: 9781542661126

SUMMARY- You'll probably immediately notice that one piece of lace shown on the cover is not like the other. That's because the edging at the bottom is a bobbin lace, not a shuttle lace. This is why budding authors need editors - or friends with an editor's eye for detail. There are so many beginners books, and I continue to buy each one I come across hoping to find one that is the equivalent of having a teacher or even a Youtube video. This author covers a lot of basic ground, but her descriptions need more detail, especially if no illustrations are going to be used to step the beginner through the fundamentals. She gives you several simple practice patterns in both written and then symbolic notation - but no diagrams except in Chapter 4 where she gives you the diagram of a ring. It's possible she wrote this book to supplement lessons she was giving? I don't know. I just know it could have been better despite the clear effort she made to give you a complete start.