9 October 2018

A new technique page

The new page, in my Tips and Techniques section on my pattern site, is about how to deal with the ends when you finish a piece of tatting and which leaves just one end to sew in.  

I've NEVER managed the magic thread trick and in fact it's only ever led to frustration and temper tantrums!!!  Also I often end up in a different place to where I start. Anyway there's no need to hide the beginning ends with a magic thread as they can just be tatted over.  I digress - but what's new, eh?

I don't suppose this idea is new.  I have searched for it but found no mention although I think I did see some photos somewhere but couldn't make head or tail of them so decided that I'd better do a page as a reminder to myself (and BC3)!!!

What I like about this is that there are no knots to be tied (in fact it's impossible to do that) and only ONE end to sew in too.  I'm using it all the time now and for most techniques as well.

Let's see - 62 years of tatting and I've only just discovered this. How BAD is that? 

I've just uploaded this page to my tips and techniques section.  


9 comments:

Jane McLellan said...

Very nifty, thank you! BTW, your comment form looks more 'normal' today.

Frances said...

This is the way I have been hiding threads for the last six months while I was working on a large doily. Except I lock join the thread (place a pin to hold the lock loose) going back through the chain and direct tat over the core thread then adjust the lock join and tighten the core

Jane Eborall said...

I like what you do - I'll give that a whirl later too. Thanks for the extra tip.

Jane Eborall said...

Oh, that's good news, Jane. I read about Google stopping Google+ yesterday and so changed my settings to 'get rid of it'. I think that may have done the trick. It'll be interesting to see if I can comment on other people's blogs too!!

Joy Reno said...

I'm not clear on your lock join comment Frances. Can you post pic? Where along the chain do you lock join? I do want to try this.

Crazy Mom! said...

I LOVE Magic Thread Trick and use it all the time. Will happily walk you through it sometime.....

God's Kid said...

Very interesting!! I will have to try this since I too have had a terrible time trying to get the magic thread to work for me.

Tim Kaylor said...

Careful, Jane, your genius is showing again. Now why didn't I think of that? Oh, yeah. I'm not a genius. Wonderful idea. Have to try it out.

Claire said...

Great way of reducing the number of tails to sew the end in. I will try this on my next project.

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