Wednesday, July 1, 2009

If you could stock a store full of Tatting materials . . .

Heglajhess asked that question on the Here-Be-Tatters email list so I thought I would post my answers here too.
FIVE BOOKS FOR BEGINNERS
1- The Complete Book of Tatting by Rebecca Jones
2- Tatting with Visual Patterns by Mary Konior
3- Beginning Tatting (can't find my copy so don't know the author)
4- Tatting by the Tatsy company
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FIVE BOOKS YOU MOST DESIRE OR CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT
1- Ben Fikkart's books
2- The Shuttle Brother's books
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FIVE FAVORITE SHUTTLE TYPES/BRANDS
1- Silent Tatter
2- Detach-A-Spool
3- Handmade by my dad out of walnut from his backyard similar to the Silent Tatter
4- Grizzly Mountain Arts with a sewing bobbin and hook
5- any shuttle using a sewing bobbin and has an attached hook
FIVE BEST THREADS/FIBER
1- 6 cord mercerized cotton
2- hand dyed thread
3- silk
4- linen
5- blending filaments
FIVE TOP TATTING TOOLS
1- magic thread/floss threader
2- short crochet hooks with rings
3- beading needles
4- clover thread cutter
5- yarn swift for handling skeins of thread
6- picot guages
FIVE MOST DESIRED ITEMS TO INCLUDE IN YOUR TATTING
1- beads
2- glass ornaments
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FIVE MOST NECESSARY DESIGN AIDS
1- 1' tatted measuring thread
2- pencil
3- paper
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PLEASE INCLUDE ANY REMARKS HERE
beginning tatting videos - I like Sharon's

2 comments:

  1. Jeanne,
    Thank you for taking the time to provide your thoughtful response. It will make my 'job' of putting this order together much easier, with more variety than if the list consisted of (mostly) my personal favorites. Greatly appreciate your input.
    Hegla
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  2. your welcome Hegla,
    I had to do some thinking and you my have noted that the answers I gave to the email list are not the same as the ones that I have here. after posting to the email list, I realized that my list was not complete, so added to it for posting here.

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