Janice, I am not much of a needle tatter, but do know that most patterns that are designed for two shuttles, the needle tatter has the advantage that they don't need two needles. ;) You use the same needle. Say for instance you have a simple ring and chain pattern with a ring thrown off the chain. Here is a pattern:
Ring: 3-3-3-3, RW Chain: 3-3[Ring: 3-3-3-3]3-3, RW Ring: 3-3-3-3, RW And so on. When starting the chain with 3 ds, picot, 3 ds, he would slide the stitches off the needle as if to finish the chain. Do not reverse work. The part in the brackets is where he would start the ring to be thrown off. Close ring. Make the other half of the chain of 3ds, picot, 3ds and finish chain and tighten stitches so the chain with the ring on top makes a nice arc. Hope this is clear explanation. Mark, aka Tatman Weary from working day and night on costumes for the HS play in Greenville, IL USA Www.tat-man.net blog: ww.tat-man.net/blog On 3/7/07 8:50 PM, "Janice Blair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tonight we had a visit from a needle tatter at my lace group. He does > beautiful fine needle lace and he was told that you can convert any shuttle > pattern into a needle lace pattern but he does not know how to do that for a > pattern that uses two shuttles. Can anyone answer that question or point him > in the right direction to get the question answered. He knows how to do split > rings with his needle tatting and most other techniques but my experience is > limited to shuttle tatting. I will forward the answers, if any, to him. > Thanks, > Janice > > Janice Blair > Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, > Illinois, USA > http://jblace.wordpress.com/ > http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
