The one-on-one lessons to learn
basics in shuttle tatting.
Class fee is $25 an hour.
payable after each class.
We accept cash, personal checks & PayPal.
The first class session (2 hours) includes:
Working with ONE shuttle:
- Double Stitch or Double Knot
- Make a ring
- Decorative and joining picots
- Josefine picot.
- Regular (left-to-right) join
- Make a trefoil.
- Reading long hand and short hand patterns.
- Start a project to finish at home.
During the second class session (2 hours) you start
Working with ONE shuttle and a ball, continuous thread:
- Small ring-chain project
- Lock join.
- Right side (right-to-left) join.
- Start a project to finish at home.
The third class session (2 hours) covers:
Working with ONE shuttle and a ball, two colors:
- Hiding thread tails at the beginning of work
- Adding thread
- Finger tatting
- Making small two color motif
- Start a project to finish at home
- Get highlights of the next two projects to try them at home (optional)
The forth class session (2 hours) features:
Working with TWO shuttles
- Choosing, interpreting and re-writing a pattern
- Split Rings
- Learn the basics of lace design
- Make a piece of tatted lace to use as applique or insertion
- Compile a project following the rules learnt so far and a number of helpful tips
- Write the pattern and start the project to finish at home.
The fifth class session, 2 hours:
A short test
- Questions, trouble shooting
- Guidelines in tatted lace design
- Highlights of the intermediate course, helpful tips, practical advice
- Short review of books on Tatting.