If you’ve been longing to learn shuttle tatting, or looking for a new craft that’s fun, inexpensive and portable, this is the class for you. Marilee’s warm and expert instruction will guide you through the tricky parts and send you on your way to creating lacy jewelry and tatted embellishments for quilts, paper crafts and more. You’ll learn the basic lark’s head knot and double stitch and how to create lace patterns with chains, rings and picots. Marilee shares pattern-reading skills and discusses where to find vintage patterns. She also helps you avoid or fix common mistakes. As a bonus, you’ll learn a few more techniques: reverses, joins and beadwork, node stitch and floating and split rings. Use the skills you’ve learned to make little flowers and butterflies, floret earrings, a classic-edge bracelet, the beaded Rhapsody necklace and parfait snowflakes!
Class Sessions
Introduction
7:54
Meet Marilee Rockley, who will show you how simple and beautiful shuttle tatting can be!
How to Tat Double Stitch
17:06
The basic double stitch, or lark's head knot, is the hardest thing to master in shuttle tatting. Marilee guides you through!
Chain Ring Picots & Reverse Work
10:33
Learn how to form a chain with picots, the decorative or functional loops that adorn your lace. Then turn your work to work in reverse!
Reading a Tatting Pattern
7:12
Marilee shows you how to read patterns and shares the fun of seeking out vintage patterns.
Small Flowers & Butterflies
28:08
Practice your tatting with little motifs that can be used on greeting cards.
Floret Earrings
30:33
Marilee shows you how to make a pair delightful earrings from start to finish.
Classic Edge Bracelet
30:04
The technique used to make this bracelet can be adapted to create edging for almost anything!
Rhapsody Necklace
32:30
Make this charming accessory with or without beads. Marilee shows you how!
Avoiding a Twisting Picot
21:12
Learn about some common pitfalls in shuttle tatting and how to avoid or fix them.
Parfait Snowflake
21:45
Use two shuttles to work in the round to create a floating ring in one or two colors. You'll build a snowflake to incorporate in other designs or to use as an ornament.
Double Scoop Bracelet
12:39
The split ring and node stitch techniques are used to construct a dainty accessory.
Bonus: Earrings
21:56
Marilee shares a bonus lesson that include split chain, lock stitch chain, block tatting and split ring with bead to create beautiful earrings.
Your Instructor
Marilee Rockley
Marilee Rockley has been a driving force in modern tatting. Her designs, which have appeared in various magazines as well as her book Tatted Jewelry, make this Victorian art accessible to modern tastes. As a go-to source of information about tatting history and methodology, Marilee is on the forefront of the tatting revival. She also dyes her own tatting threads so that she can control color and create visual interest that can't be found in commercial threads.
Bonus Material
Shuttle Tatting – Resources & Patterns
Bonus Materials available for download after purchase.
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