My first finished choker!

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I just dropped this off at the fair!

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A bit wiggly and tons of mistakes, but I tatted my first bracelet!!

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1st piece with mixed metal and lace

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first 24 hours of tatting!

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Not anything as complicated as y’all. Simple rainbow snowflake

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Proud of my necklace inspired by Lorina Balteanu's jewelry

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Valentine’s Day presents for my daughter and her suite mates.

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Spring is coming 💐🌼🌻

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My first tatting project. I’ve been wanting to learn for years and finally made myself try!

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I just discovered shuttle tatting and I'm in love!! After messing up and starting over about a million times, I finally finished my first piece! ❄️

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Tatting Skull attempt, thinking about Halloween

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First tatting piece, it's uneven but I'll still block it, and the center is misaligned but I noticed it too late 😅

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Hello everybody! My bracelet is lacy trees. I fell in love with these cute curly trees. What do you think?

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Now I cannot stop....

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I made a heart crown for a Queen of Hearts Halloween costume

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2022 Fair

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New project needle tatting

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Another hanky

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Finally finished the Maimai Kaito Basic Doily ☺

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I made a pattern ☘️ at your request.

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my first doily

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Playing around with adding beads

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Time to retire this piece.

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Picot life hack: Put a guide on your finger with a pen, and you can have even picots without fussing with gauges!

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finished another hankie

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Is it me or does the regularity of this pattern just incredibly aesthetically pleasing?

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Finished my wedding necklace today!

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Another pair of earrings, these are for my daughter-in-law

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I’m in love with my latest piece!!!!!

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Whipped these up today :)

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My very first piece!

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My first bit of tatting! (Besides a test loop or chain). Could not figure out shuttle tatting for the life of me, but needle tatting just clicked!

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For those of you who said “dont give up”

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First attempt at designing my own pattern

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had an idea for tatting my name and tried it

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Summer vibes ☀️😊

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New to tatting, tips for sweaty hands?

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Finished the Flora Doily! (pattern by AYA Lace on etsy)

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Thought you might like to see the inside of Lacis!

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Finally making the pattern that convinced me to learn tatting in the first place!

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attention ! my first successful double stitches

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Frog closures I tatted because I didn’t want to sew buttonholes

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My first completed and blocked doily!

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Made a teeny tiny butterfly. 💞🦋

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Heart doily❤️😊

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my best so far!!

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After many many failed attempts I finally managed some basic tatting!

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My first attempt at micro-tatting!

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Y’all.

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I'm in love! I will link the free pattern in the comments.

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Decorating Easter eggs. Can't wait to make more

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This worked out ok.

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Winner, Winner, thread chicken Winner!

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One shuttle doily - pattern by urban knit design

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Tatted Christmas presents finally done!🎄🎁

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Is this a thing???? This has to be a thing right??? I was just using random things to tat with to avoid cleaning and I can’t believe how beautiful the ribbon turned out!! (Also please be nice about my nails, I’ve cleaned under them so many times but I can’t get the takis stain out)

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finished my edging

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Still more than a bit upset I’m not automatically perfect at starting something new and will be here to obsess for the next few months.

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I started tatting 2 days ago, crying out of frustration because my knots do not flip, now I just made my very first bookmark. I'm so proud of myself. 😭❤️

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Day 2 of learning how to do shuttle tatting

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Finished a coaster today that I think looks like stained glass!

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Christmas tree ornaments

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New doily. Aunt Lydia's thread size 10.

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Not sure if im actually making progress or just wasting thread.

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I hope you enjoy these Christmas Baubles. What holiday projects are you currently tatting?

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Getting in the Christmas Spirit!

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how to attach two magic squares?

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I made my first motif today!

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My first try, done thanks to slow-motion youtube videos and lots of quiet cursing.

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starting out what will be a long project because I want this to be a little shawl/jacket

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First actual thing!

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Making progress

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Needed a new craft

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Just found a bunch of tatting e-books in my local library's Hoopla service [US, at least]

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I bought a neck!!

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Finally I’ve done my first dream catcher

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Gorgeous cover on Piecework this Quarter!

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Left-handed woes

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How do you block wearable items - like this bracelet? I’ve never blocked something before and want it to look good, but not too stiff to wear comfortably

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I just hate hiding ends... so my pile of wips keeps growing

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Part of why I love post shuttles: they hold a ton of thread!

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My sister is getting married tomorrow, and I've made jewelry for the wedding party and for her! Patterns and details in the comments.

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Can't sleep. Finally got my first shuttle delivered. This is harder than it looked!

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Excited to share my progress

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Working on my very first tatting piece it’s a daisy chain choker

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Made myself a bookmark

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Oh, *that* is how the knot flip works....

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I seriously underestimated what a little piece of carboard can do all my life

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Spare time stash busting. Hand me down perle cotton from my Grandma, 170cm long so far!

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First set of tatted earrings! I know they’re not perfect, but I’m pretty happy with them!

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Just started tatting three days ago, how am I doing?

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Doily #6

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Just a rant: I hate doing these!

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My first necklace

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My free doily tatting pattern, link is in first comment

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my first larger project after learning how to tat last week!

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Picked up my first shuttle a week ago. I think I'm improving. Still struggling with tension.

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Finished today finally !

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First try and it probably took 10+ min to figure out

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I want to share with you my free pattern. The link is in first comment 🙂

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Hubby: I think you have enough tatting thread...

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Started tatting a month ago. This is my first piece with beads, I'm proud of this one 😊!

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My first completed tatted object, a bookmark!

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I'm here, again

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I bought some books! Dover was having a sale. I love Anne Orr; have a bunch of her other books (Dover editions).

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My free square patterns 🙂 link in first comment ❤️

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Day 3, and with a clear disregard for my skill level and lack of experience, I'm plunging headfirst into a complicated and delightful edging piece that will eventually be part of a new door wreath, because that's just what I do.

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My first finished bracelet!

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Tatting has a darn near vertical learning curve. What a first attempt looks like.

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I started my first doily and was so proud to move on to the next row when I noticed my mistake. This is my third redo. Grrrrr

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Progress! I can do joined rings now easily. Next is chains. I tried them; much harder.

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Tatting beginner

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I have just started learning how to shuttle tat and I made my first ring with picots! It isn't much, but it's progress :)

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Just out from the shuttle... Made a collar and my first one.. hopefully not the last. :)

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Day 5 of learning to tat; A little wonky and a mistake at the top but i finished a pattern!! :)

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joining y'all because I can't stop picking up hobbies or laceweight cotton. is there any advice you'd give to a beginner?

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I learned about tatting yesterday and I don’t exactly have the right materials yet, but I think I did well with what I had 😅

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Halloween dream catcher👻 🕸🕷💀

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Update to my shuttle tatting adventures: I joined picots for the first time!! I'm loving this :)

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DRAGON

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My ADHD was hitting hard so I needed a new hobby. I ordered shuttles and a set of picot gauges that arrived just this morning. I started about 2 hours ago and I think I'm progressing really well. I'm gonna attempt to follow a simple butterfly pattern next.

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I tried making a big needle for large tatting, with mixed success

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I wanted an eye pattern but could never find one, so I made my own!

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How do I advance from competent beginner to intermediate? (More in comment)

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Need help with smaller sized thread! More info in comments.

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Just getting started. First two were needle, second two shuttle. Still learning the basics but really enjoying tatting so far! I had to watch a bunch of different YouTube videos to get here.

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Is there a reason this piece is curling in places? Am I tightening up DS's too tight?

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Progress in learning chain

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Stress tatting in work meetings (...quite a time to be in health care, eh?)

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Day 2 of this new hobby and I feel like I've got pretty good handle on loops and chains. The double shuttles were a little tricky at first, but once I stopped getting them twisted, everything just fell into place.

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Hi I am completely new to reddit, looking forward to exploring many beautiful tattings here! Here is a snowflake I made. Pattern is from: www.etsy.com/shop/LaSinceriteLace

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I know I was just here a few hours ago, but I just finished my first real thing I'm super proud of myself. It took me about 30-45min and I got to practice picking out some stitches, but I did it! Goldfish for scale.

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Hello, I'm relatively new to tatting and new to this sub! Here's the very first thing I made up entirely from scratch, a small snake charm. (Made by needle tatting.)

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Tatted snowflakes instead of bows this year.

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I’m working on a snowflake advent calendar for my mum for Christmas. This will be the Christmas Eve one. Pattern is Celeste by LaCossette on Etsy.

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I don’t think this is tatting, but do any of you know what it is?

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Trying to use the shuttle but I miss how tidy the stitches are on the needle! I can barely see/understand what’s going on here... :(

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I'm definitely not good at this yet, but I'm proud of my progress. Just started learning a couple days ago! Any tips would be appreciated! These were all needles, I'm having trouble flipping stitches with a shuttle but I'm practicing!

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why is my tatting not looking like the one described in this website.

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I started tatting in August, I’m currently working on an edging with beads...trying to remind myself that I’ll only get better through lots of practice.

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27th attempt at my sister's bookmark cross

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Is this tatting? Or something else?

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Tatted cap sleeve for a wedding dress

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I made another Celeste snowflake for a Christmas gift. Love the dark blue with the gold!

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Question: tatting day 1. About 3 hours into learning. Any feedback? And can I turn this into a ring somehow? Or do I need to start a new string to make a ring?

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First tatted piece!

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