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Hi there, I am Katy!
And today we are going to be talking about how to attach your tatting to fabric.
Now there are lots of different methods and techniques on how to do this,
and the one that we will be working on this time,
is one in which we tat directly onto our fabric.
So go ahead and get a piece of cloth
- a cloth napkin, pillowcase, anything at all that you want to tat onto,
and your tatting supplies,
and we will get started.
Okay, today I am going to be showing you how to do a couple of different edgings on the
side of a napkin.
So this is a large, vintage napkin,
and I am just gonna go ahead and use the same thread that I always use, this is my favorite
stuff!
You are just going to go ahead and take your needle,
and you are going to insert it through the corner of your edging.
Now this edging has a really thick edge to it,
so I am just going to try and catch some of this thread with my needle.
On one that has a smaller edge, I would just stick it completely through.
But for this one, we are just going to catch some of the edge, pull our needle through.
And we are going to leave, I will say, 2 feet of thread on the back side of our fabric.
Then you tie your knot, and we are ready to start tatting.
You do 4 double stitches, 1 picot, 4 double stitches, 1 picot, 4 double stitches.
And then we are going to slide it off the needle.
So that is our finished chain right there,
slide it off the needle,
and in this particular case, we do not have to reverse our work, because all we are doing
are chains.
So we are just going to go ahead and make sure it is going the right way.
Looks good,
make our knot,
pull it into a crescent shape.
And then, in this particular case, we're going to decide how big do we want our arch to be?
So I will say about 1/2" on this one,
it is kind of a large gap, but this is a larger napkin and a larger thread,
so we are gonna say about 1/2".
Then every time we make one of these we are going to space it roughly 1/2" apart.
If you are really precise you can measure it, I usually just eyeball it.
You pull your thread through your fabric edge and just make a knot.
Right like that.
And then I like to do my special step.
And if you do not know how to do that, you can watch my video on how to do it.
I will have a link on this video for you.
Ok, and so then we are ready to do it again.
And we are going to do the same stitch,
we are just going to go ahead and do 4 ds, 1p, 4ds, 1p, 4ds, 1p, 4ds.
Like that,
and we are ready to slide it off our needle and pull it into our arch shape.
Make our knot, and then if we look at it again.
We are going to go about 1/2" again, going from the back to the front.
I will slide my needle through the edge of the fabric, right like that, and tie a knot.
And it is that simple.
This is actually the reason why I really, really, like the doll needles.
Because if you get a really good quality tatting needle,
it is going to have a really blunted end.
And while that is really great for tatting, because you're not going to poke yourself,
it makes it more difficult when it comes to attaching tatting directly to fabric.
Where as if you have a doll needle that has a really sharp point,
if you file the sharp point off,
it will still have a bit of a point.
So you will not poke yourself as much, but, it will have a good point so you can still
easily stick it through your fabric.
That is why I am a big fan of using the doll needles,
the five inch doll needles, in place of the tatting needle most of the time.
So you are just going to go ahead and keep doing that,
all the way around your hankie, napkin, whatever you are making an edge on.
When you get to a corner, you could do one of two things.
You could either space it so that your arch kind of jumps the corner and connects over
here,
or you can do it so that it lands directly on the corner.
And that is completely up to you, either way works.
So go ahead and practice that, until you have it down.
And then I will show you how to do rings and chains directly onto your fabric.
And remember this one works really well as a base edge,
so if you wanted to do a fancy, more complex edging,
this is still a nice one to do just to get the basic tatted edge on here.
And then when you come back with your fancy edging,
you could tat directly onto this by just joining your picots
of your next edge to these to make a second round.