Here you'll find links to a series of educational videos on tatting shot by me and used mainly for my own reference; but if they help you too, then I'm very glad!
NOTE: NONE of the techniques described in the videos or the patterns used for lessons or practice is my own.
Lesson 1 - How to fill the shuttle up.
Lesson 2 - Basic knot or stitch. How to make a ring.
Lesson 3 - Picots
Lesson 4 - Basic Picot Join (a.k.a up or upwards join)
Lesson 5 - Read patterns
Practice lessons 1-5
Lesson 6 - Two threads
Lesson 7 - Picots with two threads
Lesson 8 - Joining with two threads
Lesson 9 - Complex tatting patterns
Practice lessons 6-9
Lesson 10 - Two shuttles AKA "Floating rings"
Practice lesson 10
Lesson 11 - Pearl Tatting or tatting with multiple threads
Practice lesson 11
Lesson 12 - Two-shuttle split ring
Practice lesson 12
Lesson 13 - Single-shuttle split ring
Practice Lesson 13
Lesson 14 - The Dora Young knotless chain AKA Split chain
Practice lesson 14
Lesson 15 - Mock ring
Practice lesson 15
Lesson 16 - Beads in picots
Lesson 17 - Beads in shuttle thread
Lesson 18 - Beads in ball thread
Lesson 19 - Beads in center of single-shuttle ring
Lesson 20 - Beads in split rings
Lesson 21 - Beads in mock rings
Practice lessons 16-21
Lesson 22 - Josephine knot and ring
Practice lesson 22
Lesson 23 - Ric-Rac or lattice stitch
Practice lesson 23
Lesson 24: Mignonette
Practice lesson 24
Lesson 25 - Concentric Rings or how to make the lock join, the slope-and-roll join and the Dora Young join
Practice Lesson 25
Lesson 26 - Block Tatting
Practice Lesson 26
Lesson 27 - Roll Tatting
Practice lesson 27
Lesson 28 - Maltese Ring
Practice Lesson 28
Lesson 29 - Daisy Picot
Practice Lesson 29
Lesson 30: CLUNY
Practice lesson 30
Lesson 31 - Hanging cluny
Practice lesson 31
Lesson 32 - Hanging cluny off a ring
Lesson 33 - Inverted picot
Lesson 34 - Wide picot
Lesson 35 - Multiple Picot
Lesson 36 - Double dizzy picot
Lesson 37 - Dizzy double stitch
Lesson 38 - Single Shuttle Split Chain AKA Floating chains
Lesson 39 - Closing a flower or twisted picot join
Lesson 40 - Opening a closed ring
Lesson 41 - Shoelace Trick
Lesson 42 - The Dora Young knotless ring AKA Mock Split Ring
Lesson 43 - Single-shuttle, double-core split ring
Lesson 44 - Wrap-around or Alligator Join
Lesson 45 - Hiding ends at the beginning
Lesson 46 - Hiding ends at the end of a ring
Lesson 47 - Beads in the base of a ring (a.k.a. loop-tatted ring)
Lesson 48 - Beads in inverted picots
Lesson 49 - Beads in long picots
Lesson 50 - Beads on top of beads
Lesson 51 - Tatting with plastic rings
Lesson 52 - Zig-Zag chains
Lesson 53 - Square rings
Lesson 54 - Balanced Double Stitch aka Double-Double Stitch.
Lesson 55 - Rings off split rings
Lesson 56 - Alternative method of closing flowers
Lesson 57 - Folded rings
Lesson 58 - Pulled loop join or another way of doing a lock join
Lesson 59 - Swirl Join
Lesson 60 - Adding threads
Lesson 61 - Beanile Lace - What you need to know
Lesson 62 - Beanile Lace - UP beads
Lesson 62 - Earring pattern
Lesson 62 - Necklace pattern
Lesson 62 - Another earring pattern
Lesson 63 - Beanile Lace - UP and DOWN beads
Lesson 63 - Earring pattern
Lesson 63 - Necklace pattern
Lesson 63 - Another earring pattern
Lesson 64 - Turkish tatting - making leaves
Lesson 65 - Turkish tatting - making flowers
Lesson 66 - Working with DOUBLE-thread shuttles
(Applicable to the techniques described in Lessons 43 & 53)
Lesson 67 - Final rings, split chains and next rounds
Lesson 68 - UP joins and DOWN joins
Lesson 69 - The Dora Young join
Lesson 70 - Mock Hairpin Lace
Lesson 71 - Jeanne Lugert's 3D roses
Lesson 72 - Inverted tatting
Lesson 73 - Predict the amount of thread needed for a tatting project
Lesson 74 - Encapsulation AKA padded or wrapped tatting
Lesson 75 - Chainmaille
Lesson 76 - Byzantine links
Lesson 77 - Single-shuttle interlocking rings
Lesson 78 - Interlocking Split Rings 1
Lesson 79 - Interlocking Split Rings 2
Lesson 80 - Interlocking Split Rings 3
Lesson 81 - Interlocking Split Rings 4
Lesson 82 - Celtic knot
Lesson 83 - Celtic Y-ring
Lesson 84 - Celtic picot
Lesson 85 - Lark's head join (see video #101)
Lesson 86 - Dimpled ring AKA dimpled Yorkie
Lesson 87 - Spiral cord AKA Josephine cord
Lesson 88 - Clip join AKA inward-facing picot
Lesson 89 - Mock picot
Lesson 90 - Lock-Stitch chain
Lesson 91 - Ring inside Maltese ring
Lesson 92 - Maltese split ring
Lesson 93 - Interlocking picots
Lesson 94 - Twisted picots - ornamental
Lesson 95 - Woven picots
Lesson 96 - How to design corners
Lesson 97 - Tatting with buttons 1
Lesson 98 - Tatting with buttons 2
Lesson 99 - Layered (or ruffled) picots
Lesson 100 - Adding a bead to the center of a ring-only motif
Lesson 101 - Another way of doing the Lark's Head Join!! (see video #85)
Lesson 102 - Rolled picots
Lesson 103 - Picot gauges
Lesson 104 - Broomstick Picot
Lesson 105 - Basic Ankars: Clusters of Rings or simple elements
Lesson 106 - Mrs. Mee Picots
Lesson 107 - Dancing Picots
Lesson 108 - Start from a chain without paperclip
Lesson 109 - How to tat a hair scrunchie
Lesson 110 - How to add thread when we run out of it halfway through a ring or chain
Lesson 111 - Loop-Tatted Ring, revisited
Lesson 112 - Basic Ankars: Stacked Rings or complex elements
Lesson 113 - Riego join
Lesson 114 - Interlaced rings a la Edwige Renaudin
Lesson 115 - Loop-tatted ring on ring (LTROR)
Lesson 116 - Loop-tatted ring on split ring (LTROSR)
Lesson 117 - Anne Dyer's Join to the Smooth Side (JSS)
BONUS VIDEOS:
These videos lack quality, that is why I have not included them in the previous list. However, the technique described can be followed.
Translation into Italian: Anna Maria Letizia Giachino, Ninetta Caruso, Rita Scapaticci, Edda Guastalla, Barbara Pandone, Roberta D'Anniballe. Grazie mille!
Karen, como siempre claro y sin complicaciones, muy didacticos.Besotes
ReplyDeleteMuchas gracias por tu cursillo, Karen
ReplyDeleteKaren, gracias por compartir tan generosamente toda tu experiencia y conocimiento. Besos
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your videos!They are superb!
ReplyDeleteThis is so cool Karen... I didn't know you had this blog. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteWOOO i am already subscribed to your you tube channel. I love love love your videos.
ReplyDeleteIt was disappointing to see so many copyright violations on your pdf files of patterns to practice. Your videos are great otherwise.
ReplyDeleteHello, Xstchntat. Please read the NOTE at the beginning of this post. It clearly states that I do not own any of the patterns nor I am the author of any of the techniques.
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ReplyDeleteNo need to be disappointed - Karen has made legal use of copyrighted material under the federal "fair use" doctrine, codified under Title 17 of the U.S. Code. Simply put, because Karen is making limited use of copyrighted material, is not using it to make money, and is using the material for teaching purposes, she is in compliance with the applicable federal law.
For more info., see section 107 of the U.S. Copyright office's circular 92 at http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#1-40
Your work and video is magnificent!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing as you do. I love your work and this will be so helpful in my tatting group!
Hi! Karen, Thank You for sharing and taking the time to do so.... Loved you´re site ^^
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday! Thank you very much for your great and such beautiful lessons!
ReplyDeleteHola Karen,como siempre me encanta pasar por tu blog, aunque cuando tengo que salir nunca dejo mi huella por aquí, queria agredecerte que compartas tus conocimientos, yo he aprendido el frivolité viendo todo lo que gente como tú comparte generosamente en la web,he visto las portadas de las revistas de tu picasa, y queria saber si compartes dichas revistas, pues aquí en canarias no hay y solo consigo patrones de amigas desinteresadas que como tú comparten en sus blogs. Un beso y sigue así de genial.
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Muchas gracias por tomarte el tiempo de hacer este blog y tu canal de Youtube.
ReplyDeleteEl link de la leccion 6 esta incorrecto. Enlaza al video de la leccion 9. Gracias.
ReplyDeleteCorregido! Muchas gracias! :)
DeleteWow! What a wonderful place for the learn-on-your-own tatter (me). Thanks for sharing, and for your wonderfully organized site! :)
ReplyDeletekaren me podria ayudar con alguna revistas de needle tatting con figuras pequeñas por favor ,estoy tratando de empezar con cosas pequeñas mi mails es samanthayas@hotmail.com gracias
ReplyDeleteI have commented recently on some of your recent posts, but I still can't believe I've been unaware of your blog for the past couple of years, and especially your amazing videos!
ReplyDeleteI want to especially thank you SO MUCH for your EXCELLENT videos on Celtic tatting! You have unlocked the mystery of Celtic woven tatting for me, by showing how you use and manipulate the NETTING needle! As I am a shuttle tatter, this was amazing and wonderful to see. It appears you are using the 'reverse Riego' method of tatting, and I will have to practice that!
I'm curious as to where you purchased your netting needle, and if it's a special size or length.
Thanks again for ALL your amazing videos. That had to have been so much work, and it's so generous of you to share them!
Thanks! I've only been uploading videos for the past year and a half... so you're not too late, LOL!
DeleteMy netting needles come from the "Lacis netting kit". It comes with three needles and three spacers. They are longer than what i'd like them to be but hey! I buy online - usually Amazon or Knitting Warehouse carry it here in the US.
Thanks so much for the info! I will be ordering some netting needles soon! Of all the tatting techniques now out there today, this is the one I am most excited about. I love to do 3-D tatting, and combining that with the Celtic weaving is so exciting to me.
DeleteI'm quite amazed you did all those videos in a relatively short time! I still have problems just doing a normal post, let alone a video! Thanks again for the quick reply!
Where would I be without all your wonderful, wonderful videos? Thank you so much , Karen, for all this education and information that I always refer to. You are a marvel!
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I have just come across your wonderful page of videos and I want to thank you so very much for the excellent work that you have put into them......Bravo Karen
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Joy in Australia
Hi Karen. I learn this technique now and I am glad that I found your blog. The video instructor helps a lot. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great job and an international helping hand :) thanks a lot and loves from Turkey...
ReplyDeleteSo generous of you to compile and share this list. Thank you!
ReplyDeletethanks for all that we offer. YOU ARE MY GREAT TEACHER and I thank you very much. hello from Italy
ReplyDeleteI think you're unique. I love tatting because it reminds me of my dear mother that I no longer and, thanks to you, I can cultivate this passion. When I work, I think there is my mother who is close to me. for me it is a very great pleasure to see your site and what you offer us. THANK YOU KAREN!!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for all the helpful tutorials. I have one question, are the videos supposed to have sound? Every device I have viewed them on has no sound but there are times when it seems like they should. Thanks
ReplyDeleteHello Elizabeth! Thanks for watching my videos. I hope they help. Yes, they're silent. I decided on stripping the sound because I hate the sound of my own voice (LOL) and because I was thinking of people like me, who only have time to learn something late at night when everyone else is sleeping.
DeleteEres mi referente. Cuando necesito saber cómo hacer algo, sé que en tu blog lo voy a encontrar. No me cansaré de decírtelo, tus videos son estupendos. Muchisimas gracias por compartir todo tu saber.
ReplyDeleteMaría
I love your site. I am 70 years old and learned to tat before age 5 but did not tat after age 6 until I was 32. Then I took a quick basic class but did not continue until now. I have one question. How do I access practice lessons? When I click on them I get some "medic type site". Thank you Bunnie Andersen
ReplyDeleteBunnie, please email me at kcabrera74 at gmail dot com!
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