Shuttle Tatting Without A Teacher (2)

From Betty Alderson:

I taught myself to tat over 50 years ago in Scotland from a Coats & Clark leaflet and it was only through sheer deter-mination that I accomplished this task. The directions were not very elear at that time and I haven’t found any sińce that are much of an improvement.

With this in mind, I have attempted to cover all the difficul-ties that might arise when one is trying to learn shuttle tatting without a teacher!

If all the steps are followed as outlined in this book, the beginning tatter should have no difficulty in progressing to almost any of the tatting patterns and books published today.

Shuttle tatting is very easy once you get the hang of it but some never do. To avoid being one of those people, all the directions and illustrations should be followed step by step. If you are right-handed, you may discover that your left hand is doing a lot morę work than usual. It may tense up at first - this is not unusual. Take a break and relax for a few minutes.

Introduction

As we reviewed Betty’s tatting and notes, we discovered a nearly complete manuscript for a companion book to Betty’s already quite successful book - Bobbin Lace Without a Teacher. We decided to put her notes and dia-grams together and complete Tatting Without a Teacher.

Everything included in this book is close to Betty’s notes (from the very late 90s or early 00’s) and plans for this book as we have been able to make it.

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