Tatting for Beginners - The Chain

Following on from the Beginner's Video on "Transferring the Knot" which demonstrates this with a ring, I had a request to make another beginner's video that shows how to make a chain. Here it is!

I hope you find it useful! Please let me know if anything is unclear or if there are other specific aspects of tatting for beginners that you'd like to see.

I don't know why the link to the Beginner's Ring Video is not working, I'm adding it here:

[mamalisa]

I have really been struggling with figuring out how to make a chain from a ring. Your instructions are so very very helpful. Also the cord really does help to be able to see what is happening. Thank you.❤️

[jamesE]

I have been struggling to ‘flip the knot’ but your video helped me finally understand what I was doing wrong! My tension on the “hand cord” was still too tight.

Thank you. I’ve been trying to learn. My granny tried to teach me when I was young, but I didn’t understand got frustrated and stopped trying. I feel like a new world has unlocked. ❤

I crochet everywhere I go but sometimes can’t carry a skein of yarn. A shuttle and a small ball of thread can go everywhere. 😅😂

[Creatively_Crazy]

My Aunt told me about tatting when I found a tatting shuttle among some old stuff of my grandmother's and had no idea what it was. Used so much that the metal, E Boye shuttle's imprinted words are wearing off (this is what I'm learning with). Her great Aunt, (my great, great aunt), was going to teach her, but died before that happened. Now your videos are helping me learn how to tat so that I can teach my Aunt (now in her 70's) and keep a tradition that has been going on in my family for as far back as anyone can remember. Thank you so much for this video series. Your explanation on transferring the knot, and all the other videos have been the most helpful I've found.

[lillytorres]

I was so stressed trying to make rings, and now I get it! I wasn't loosening the string on my left or tightening the right. I took a break for a few days, and this was the first video I watched. Thank you so much 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[inthefamily]

That was wonderful because I could actually see what needed to understand the chain

[marciasilviajohnson]

That is so useful for the people starting to learning tatting. Smart choice to use the thick tread we can see exact what is going on 🤗

[msareli]

Thank you so much, for your effort to teach the basics of tatting, it's a very nice of you, to do so. I love this art! And I'm still in the process of learning. Thank you again.

[mayuridas]

Hi ma'am.. I am Mayuri from India.. I like watching your tatting videos so much.. you teach so patiently which i really appreciate.. i am still learning to tat by watching your video with the help of my mom's shuttle which she bought many years ago even before my birth.. Now, the art of tatting has been almost lost but thankfully i came to know about from my mother.. But i always face problem while shifting the knots, sometimes it shifts so easily and sometime i have to struggle many times..

[marciasilviajohnson]

I will be waiting for the new pattern . I learned so much with your videos Thank you for teaching us, much appreciated 🤗

[sharonsmith]

Some of the biggest teddy bears look scary, and I agree with you that everybody needs someone who believes in them, and I believe that he found them that day. I wish him well

[naydanjay]

I love your videos. You are such a great teacher. Thank you for sharing.

[nilanthiwijemanna]

Thank you ma'am this is forward to me doing tatting. I never try before

[christianalynnk]

Trying to learn how to tat... I appreciate you using the thick yellow satin cord that allows the transfer or "flip" of the knot to be seen! Thank you for your patience in slowing the process down for beginners. I found your "Transferring the Knot" video first. My first few stitches slide nicely on the "shuttle cord, " so I think I am getting it and I speed up a little. But then when I try to slide my row it just knots up. I look at my shuttle and something has gone amiss. Perhaps I am also giving the shuttle a "flip" unintentionally! Could you make another explanatory video in which you comment about the hand holding the shuttle --- "lift slightly to allow the thread to pass under the index finger" or "above the thumb, " etc.
I'm pretty sure I'm holding my shuttle wrong... help!

[dorothyteriinatoofa]

Merci pour la démonstration avec de grosses cordes, explications claires..super!

[debraherston]

Thank you for a well made, simple and easy to see each step tutorial for tatting. One issue I have when doing this is to keep my thread from twisting. Any tips/suggestions to keep the thread straight??

[kaboom]

Love your videos!
I have a question, how long should the cord on pinkie be?

[Lillia_CretiveConnexions]

I have always struggled with tension. ( I 've never seen tatting other than online, ) I notice in this video the legs are tall enough so that the caps do not make contact with the core thread, Is this just because you are using rattail or is this the same thing I should be doing with thread ? I have been pulling tight enough to make the caps sit on top of the core thread,

[anapaulaoshiro]

Como chá este amarelinho que está enrolado a linha

[luulusoul]

I love your videos! But I am currently...very confused. In the first video, you use a single chord and 1 shuttle. In this video you are using 2 shuttles, or a shuttle and a ball. do I need to start with both? So many tatting videos I find start with the simple "cut your length" and then magically in the next video they are using two chords and I just...I"m confused.

[tajarshia]

Unable to get the loop on the shuttle thread