I’m a tatter!
The best book is by Rebecca Jones, which is called “The Complete Book of Tatting”. Great pictorial instructions, and some cute beginner patterns.
I would suggest shuttle tatting over needle tatting (I found it much easier, plus it gives you a tighter finish).
I am happy to answer any questions on tatting… email is tia@thisismywww.com
I’ve been tatting for a few years now, and I found that the DMC Book of Charted Tatting Designs had some very simple instructions in it. I learned to do needle tatting first and can’t say I care for it at all now that I use a tatting shuttle. I found a couple good books at A.C. Moore, and they carry a few different shuttles too, but most of the books I found were on amazon.com. I still haven’t found many great sites for tatting, but I also haven’t looked in a while. Got kind of caught up in knitting. :XX:
ooh, ooh! I wanna learn… i said that before, but now I have a question. Is Tatting the same thing as netting? like for making cauls or snoods? I read that you can make hammocks and basketball hoops with netting, but is it the same as tatting? I found this on tatting
http://www.tat-man.net/knottinginstruct.html
and this on netting
I’m not sure whether they’re different or not. But I can’t imagine trying to make a hammock with tatting. :lol: I’ll have to see what netting is, looks neat.
lol ya, i think they are different. I think both links i posted were of netting, or knotting. Tatting and netting might go hand in hand in some instances. I like the sound of both either way.
DEFINITELY different techniques…
I wouldn’t want to tat a hammock… :S would take forever…
[color=blue]Wow! :cheering: This has generated so many more answers than I anticipated! Thank you all so much! Kaytayqt–I visited your site-beautiful tatting.
misstialouise- I will look for “The Complete Book of Tatting”. Maybe Amazon has it. (a dangerous site for me lol). Hope you and the baby are doing well today 
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Hello Kaytayqt and welcome! Thanks for the information - I’d really really like to try tatting too. My cousin does beading and she met a man on holiday in Spain who was doing tatting, she said it was fascinating.
I’m going to try to find a class in London in the autumn for it.
Hey Kaytay! :waving:
Be sure to check out the other posting in this forum. I have learned SO MUCH in here. The knitting videos are great, and the people in here are so awesome and encouraging.
