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kisbee in stitch_n_tat

Beginners help!

Sep 21, 2008 22:41

I'm stuck... I've just started tatting and I am now fairly happy with double stitch and getting picots vaguely even, but I can't work out how to tighten up the second/third etc motif.

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gyrlcentric September 22 2008, 03:22:46 UTC

just at first glance it sounds like you have a stitch that didn't 'pop'

i will have to try the motif and get back to you but it will probably be tomorrow afternoon before i'll be able to

~brat~

kisbee September 22 2008, 10:24:20 UTC

Thanks!

I've found another few websites with instructions and they seem to differ a bit from what I've been doing on the first half of the double stitch so I might try with those.

gyrlcentric September 23 2008, 23:12:50 UTC

Find one that works for you? I have not been able to figure out what may have cause the catch in your motif. Where are you holding it when you pull?

kisbee September 24 2008, 14:03:36 UTC

Yea, after four different ones (one in Japanese!) I think it was a lack of popping. I can still only get the first motif to adjust along the shuttle cord, but I think it may be down to a bad first stitch in the new loop.

Where would you adjust the second loop from if you were doing it?

gyrlcentric September 24 2008, 15:24:37 UTC

I would pull from the front as far as possible. Since you are not pulling the circle taut, I would think that an un-popped stitch would be just the thing to hold each one separate so that you would not accidentally pull any closed. I will experiment some more, it's been so crazy I only had a moment to look at it before but today seems to be better.

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kisbee September 25 2008, 15:10:43 UTC

I don't think it has a name, it's from an old Good Houskeeping's Encyclopedia of Needlework or something from the Seventies. I was mostly just using it as a practice-thing to get used to making motifs.

I've started and cut off about 12 different patterns/motifs since I started that one, so I'm thinking of it as a process rather than a finished project!

gyrlcentric September 25 2008, 16:23:12 UTC

I do understand :) You can look through the gallery and see that much of what I have posted consists of bits and pieces.

gyrlcentric September 26 2008, 12:30:07 UTC

There are a couple links on the home page of the community for learning and some posts. The posts should be tagged for easy reference. One of my favorites sites is Jen's Tat-ra Sutra.

Feel free to post questions anytime :)

Also, Welcome!

~brat~