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This thing called Tatting



  1. Instead of asking you to get help, you will received applause, pats on the back and hearty welcome greetings when you admit to be an addict!
  2. You openly admit to making a mistake people think you are creative!
  3. You actually enjoy unpicking your stitches! well ... at least some do
  4. There is never a wrong choice! You can do up/down, front/back, reverse order, count/don't count the join, needle/shuttle and you still get to where you want to go.
  5. There is only one stitch to learn, but oh boy, imagine what you can do with it!
  6. It is the only thread craft that can't be duplicated by machine (?)  ... at least, I have not seen any.  There are machine embroidery that is made to look like tatting but it certainly does not show that actual doublestitches that identifies tatting!
  7. You enjoy that feeling you get when people ask you what you are doing and seeing the look on their faces when you say that its tatting.  Admit it ... you do!
  8. You can survive with only three brain cells. (just had to add this after reading Jane's comments)
 *enough rambling - break over, back to tatting, LOL
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  1. Jane Eborall4 February 2011 at 01:21

    Blimey, that sounds like me talking!!!! Ah, I know what's happened. YOU'VE stolen my brain cell # 3? I'm calling in the tat police RIGHT NOW!!!!
    Brilliant summary. I thoroughly endorse it but PLEASE send # 3 back asap.

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  2. Karen T4 February 2011 at 01:44

    Best explanation I've ever seen!

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  3. Ridgewoman4 February 2011 at 02:01

    Yes, I consider myself a tatter. I’ve tatted since the mid nineties (not sure what year I began really). I wanted to participate in your question...but could not figure out HOW. duh oh....
    xxx bj

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  4. Anonymous4 February 2011 at 02:12

    That is SO ME!!!

    Hello, my name is Lily and I'm a tatting addict!

    *holds her head up proudly


    LOL
    well maybe I don't care too much for unpicking stitches...

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  5. Nancy G4 February 2011 at 02:19

    Cool. Love #3. Spent an hour and a half doing just that so it would be 'just right '.

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  6. Lace-lovin' Librarian ~ Diane4 February 2011 at 03:08

    I do!

    Signed, a tatting addict from Illinois
    aka Lace-lovin' Librarian ~ Diane

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  7. Miranda4 February 2011 at 04:44

    It's all true!

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  8. Tatfully Yours4 February 2011 at 08:03

    No truer words have been written!!

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  9. Tat-a-Renda4 February 2011 at 08:06

    I have added another point after reading Jane's comments. BTW Jane, I am keeping #3 for a while to force it into revealing what the TIAS is, he he he ....

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  10. Jane Eborall4 February 2011 at 16:50

    So, does this mean that the kidnapping will end after Monday and he'll be returned?!?!? I'm bereft, bothered and bewildered without him!!!!!!

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  11. Margarets designer cards5 February 2011 at 02:42

    This is the best words ever written, I often get what is that, or is it crochet, No I say quitely but wanting to shout out its tatting. I did with my hands not a b......machine. I was asked that at a christmas fair, "What type of machine made that", my side screamed I tried to try her its tatting, getting out a shuttle. I have hands not a machine. I dont blame you for keeping #3 for a while until we find out what the Tias is.
    Margaret

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  12. N. Maria5 February 2011 at 10:25

    Yes, I DO love the look on people's faces when I say "it's tatting"!!!
    You have written great words of wisdom, Jon!

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