Shuttle Tatting for Beginners: A Step-by-Step Guide to Knots, Lace Patterns, and Techniques with 15 Easy Projects Including Rings, Chains, Doilies, Je (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798180785596)

The thread either flips or it doesn't. Most tatting books spend two paragraphs on that moment. This one spends an entire chapter.

You've probably watched someone tat and thought it looked impossible. Maybe you tried once, the thread locked up, nothing closed, and you put it down convinced it wasn't for you.

That experience is the most common beginning in this craft, and it traces to one cause: the flip was never explained with the depth it requires.

What Fifteen Projects Actually Build

• Learn the double stitch through a dedicated chapter on the flip, with a testing method for each half
• Close your first ring in Project 1 and your first complete bookmark in Project 2
• Form consistent picots with a gauge so each joining point aligns exactly when the design needs it
• Navigate reverse work and two-thread chains until both become automatic
• Read standard tatting notation before Project 5 so any published pattern becomes accessible
• Progress through size 10, size 20, and size 40 thread with guidance specific to each weight
• Block and finish a five-round hexagonal doily that holds shape and reads as professional handmade lace

Every project in this book is sequenced. Skip nothing, rush nothing, and by Project 10 the technique stops being something you think about.

The Structure Behind the Progress

• Fifteen original patterns, each requiring only what the previous chapters prepared
• Corrections for the exact errors that appear at each stage, given at the moment they occur
• Jewelry, bookmarks, edgings, and a doily covering what tatters most want to make
• Finishing and care instruction so every completed piece looks exactly like what it is
• Community resources and next-step guidance for continuing well beyond the final project

Tatting has a steep opening and then a long satisfying plateau. This book is designed around the opening, because that is where most beginners stop, and it doesn't have to be. Once the flip is reliable, the range of what you can make is limited only by thread and time.

Start tonight. The first stitch is thirty pages away. The rest follows from there.

Author: Tressie Medhurst
ISBN-13: 9798180785596
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 06/09/2026
Pages: 98
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.20d