Comments on: For Love of Tatting

By: Bobbin Lace Bobbins

Bobbin Lace Bobbins — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:37:22 +0000

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By: Joan

Joan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:15:12 +0000

If I tatted, I’d sadly own about 3000 of those cute shuttles. Seems like something highly collectible, susceptible of being compulsively amassed in a secret hiding place. lol

By: fleegle

fleegle — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:19:37 +0000

Gee, I used to tat years and years ago. Nice to see that people are still doing it. I have some lovely old books…maybe I’ll pick up a shuttle sometime soon.

And you might be able to tat with Dolce, but it is a wee bit fuzzy.

Am not evil!

By: suzann

suzann — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:26:24 +0000

You only need one shuttle to tat almost anything. Some advanced tatting uses two shuttles. Tatting is probably the most portable craft ever. A small ball of thread and a shuttle and off you go.
See the little green one in the first picture? A very inexpensive plastic shuttle. I really like this one. The wood shuttles are very warm in the hand. All of the wood ones actually have different colors of wood inlaid. Unlike say Knit Picks Harmony needles where the wood is ground up mixed with plastic and dyed different colors. The wood shuttles are really small works of art.

By: Marie

Marie — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:12:38 +0000

So which one out of the bunch is your favorite?

How many tatting shuttles does one need? Or is that similar to the question, how many knitting needles does one need? lol

By: Betsy

Betsy — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:01:35 +0000

Which one is your most bestest shuttle?

The turtles have been dead quite a while, since tortise shell hasn’t been harvested for decades, right??