Hi, I could use some help with tatting

[MichelleMermaid]

Hello!

I've been wanting to learn basic tatting so I can make things to add to my cq work. Yesterday I went to the craft store and purchased a package of two tatting shuttles and three packages of size 80 mercerized cotton. These were the only supplies they had!

So I just sat down to give it a try. I found this tutorial recently on youtube and it looked really easy.

Twice now I've made about 15 stitches but when I get to the end where I am supposed to close the ring my shuttle thread won't slide at all! It just gets stuck or knotted and the thread breaks!

I feel like I'm doing the stitch exactly like the tutorial shows, but something is not working. Can anyone offer a suggestion?

Thanks so much!

[MargB]

this is great Sharon. The best advice I got when I tried to learn was from a friend - don't start with anything finer than ordinary parcel string to really understand that flipped stitch. You can certainly watch what happens then. Interestingly she was about 14 and I was a year older - we were both still at school - a long time ago!.

[Gina]

I tried to respond to this last weekend and had to join and it took awhile to be approved...but I see Sharon Briggs responded and hers is one of the links I was going to give you. If you want more, please contact me at ginab6 at yahoo dot com.