Tatting is a form of lace-making. You use a shuttle and thread to tie a series of double knots and loops. When you get good at this craft, you can create really intricate patterns. My friend Heather over at Tatting Connection taught me how. She had me start with two different colored threads so I could see when I was making the thread do the proper “flip.” In my book, Cinderella’s Dress, my main character learns to tat, a skill important to her heritage. Below is some videos to show you what tatting is, then one to show how to make the crucial “flip”, and below that my Pinterest board showing some amazing samples of modern tatting.
1. What is Tatting?
If you just want to see what it is check out this video:
2. How do you tat? (Beginner’s tatting tutorial)
3. How to Make the Flip
This video is the clearest I found on how to do “the flip” which is key to tatting.
4. Look what you can tat!
Follow Shonna Slayton–YA Author’s board Crafts: Tatting on Pinterest.
