» What Is Tatting? Tatted Treasures. Tatting is an ancient form of lace making, traditionally frequented by upper class ladies due to the enormous time involved.
Notably, Queen Victoria of England and Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria enjoyed tatting. Tatting involves wrapping thread around one or two shuttles and using the shuttles to guide the thread into patterns of knots to create rings and chains in delicate designs. Projects can include doilies, earrings, necklaces, ornaments, bookmarks, baby caps and booties, wedding veils, as well as edgings on handkerchiefs, purses, garments, placemats, note cards, and much, much more. Use tatting to add elegance and flair to your favorite items! Browse the photo gallery to see some of my tatted treasures, or try your hand at tatting with my easy-to-follow Absolute Beginner Tatting Tutorials. List of Tutorials on Craftster in Felting (Includes project thumbnails!) - FIBER ARTS. Tutorial: Basic needle-felting overview - FIBER ARTS. Lets start needling --- Make a needle felt ball - to store your needles or to use as a bead.
Step 3 ------ Organize your tools and fibers Step 4 ------ Start needling A good first project for both getting the feel of the needle, the fiber and developing your needle style is making a ball. One with a final size of a ping pong or golf ball, or at least a big shooter marble. I know, I know it isn’t flat - but still it is the place to begin, you will spring on to flat and to 3D easily after making a ball. Needle felting a Ball Pinch a bit of fiber into a wad, needle it some, add more fiber - I like to roll a pencil size strand around the core then wrap it with wool yarn* (- needle all around until fairly smooth ball - roll the ball between your palms to get a feel of firmness and to help round out the ball - keep alternating fiber addition and needling until the ball is the size you desire.
Effective needle pokes go in and out at the same angle, no J hooks or twisty movement. Sewing Machine 101. Custom Cross-Stitch Patterns. Step #1: Choose a picture.
PrevNext For best results, it should not contain a lot of fine detail, and it’s helpful to select an image with a single-color background if possible. Portraits are ideal. I chose a picture of a pigeon. Family Chic by Camilla Fabbri. TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012 | Comments: 20 I love to mess around with embroidery – here’s a different kind of Valentine for you… Rubber coated copper wire is shaped into a sentence and stitched onto a piece of rough linen.
Start out with a piece of fabric and a piece of corrugated cardboard – both of the same size. Grab a bag of Twisteez Wire (a rubber coated copper wire used for wire sculptures, available at Blick for about $6.00 a bag). Shape your sentence by bending the wire. Using an embroidery floss of the same color as the wire, attach your wire sentence to the fabric. I made small stitches at about every half inch or so. I used a red thread to dot the "i" with a french knot. I also filled in the heart with a satin stitch in red. Using a hot glue gun, I attached the fabric to the cardboard and hung it up with a metal clip.
Give it a try – the kids will love this one.