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The basis of all tatting is the double stitch.
And here I'm gonna show you how to make the double stitch
with two different shuttles wrapped with two different colors of thread
so that you can see the knot transfer between the two threads more easily.
And this time we're going to do a left-handed technique.
So I'm gonna start by tyingthe end of the two threads together,
and I'm gonna hold that knot between the thumb and forefinger of my right hand.
and wrap the thread over my first finger and around my other two fingers a couple of times.
It doesn't really matter how you wrap it as long as it's enough to keep this thread here,
between my first and second fingers, taught.
That space here, that's your working thread.
Now I'm gonna pick up the second shuttle in my left hand
and with a little bit of slack here
I'm gonna scoop up that slack
over my fingers.
I'll show you how to do that again.
Holding the shuttle in the thumb and forefinger of my left hand,
I'm going to scoop the thread up
So that it makes an archway over at least one, but probably two or three fingers,
and face the shuttle toward my working thread, here.
Now, to make the first half of the double stitch
I'm gonna move the shuttle *under*the working thread,
and back *over* the working thread and through that archway that I made.
Now here I have the white thread wrapped around the red thread.
I don't want that. I want the red thread to be wrapped around the white thread.
So to fix that, I'm gonna relax my right hand
and tighten up my left hand.
Now we have the red thread wrapped around the white thread.
I'm gonna use my right hand to gently scoot that stitch up close
to the knot that I started with.
And that's the first half of the double stitch.
To make the second half,
I'm gonna move the shuttle *over* the working thread
and then back *under* the working thread.
Here we have the white thread again wrapped around the red thread.
To fix that, I'm gonna relax my right hand
and tighten up my left hand.
Did you see the thread transfer?
I'll show you one more time.
Relax my right hand and tighten up my left hand.
Now keeping my left hand tight,
I'm going to use my right hand to gently scoot that stitch up close to the last knot.
Allright. That's the second half of the double stitch.
Now I'm gonna make another first half,
shuttle goes under than over the working thread,
transfer the stitch,and then gently pull it close.
Second half of the double stitch,
transfer the knot, and gently pull it close.
First half. Again scoop the thread up,
shuttle goes under then over the working thread,
transfer the stitch and gently pull it close.
Second half. Shuttle goes over then under the working thread,
transfer the stitch and gently pull it close.
Every few stitches I'm gonna move the stitches that I've made
up closer under my thumb and forefinger
so that what I just made is just peeking out from under my thumb and forefinger.
I'm just gonna keep making double stitches for as long as the pattern tells me to.
The key part here is to remember to always transfer the stitch
from the working thread to the shuttle thread.
In the next video I'll show you how to do this while makingin a ring
and while you're doing a ring there's a little trick that you can do
to make sure that you flipped the stitch correctly.
It's kind of a check, if you will.
And don't worry if you're feeling quite awkward about how to do this,
It takes a while to get really smooth.
But if you keep practicing,I promise you'll get good.
And here you have a chain of double stitches.
I can scoot them close to each other
so that you don't see the white thread underneath the red one.
And that's how you make the double stitch
with a left-handed technique.