I worked day and night at it, tatting at rehearsal and between scenes, and lady-stars often bought my work, to my great pleasure as well as profit.
The "tatting" craze was sweeping over the country then, everybody wore tatting and almost everybody made it.
I don't feel very safe," thought Rebecca, remembering all these unaccustomed mercies as she sat on the front doorsteps, with her tatting shuttle flying in and out of the fine cotton like a hummingbird.
This pretty linen bag is meant to keep tatting and such work from being soiled before it is completed.
This mixture of tatting and lace stitch is a style of work not only entirely new, but very pretty and effective when cotton of very different sizes is used.
The tatted border is worked with fine tatting cotton.
It will be easy to work the circles in tatting from our illustration; they form an elegant border round the collar.
Tatting differs entirely from crochet, and is composed of stitches forming knots.
The following table will assist ladies in selecting the size of either tatting or crochet cotton.
It is better to use the proper tatting cotton, because it is stronger than the ordinary kinds; this is manufactured by Messrs.
Cousin Tryphena sat rigid, her tattingfallen to the floor, her breath coming with difficulty.
He laid down, on the Sheraton sideboard, an armful of his little magazines, and settled himself in a chair, observing with a new comprehension how instinctively Cousin Tryphena reached for her tatting as he began to read aloud.
For the most part, Cousin Tryphena counted her tattingstitches and paid not the least attention to her malcontent neighbor.
The clover leaf tatting had fallen into her lap and the shuttle was on the grass.
You are putting your knowledge of tatting to very good service.
Linnet settled herself on the turf and drew her work from her pocket; she was making a collar of tattingfor her mother's birthday and working at it at every spare moment.
The only necessary implements for tatting are a thin shuttle or short netting-needle, and a gilt pin and ring, united by a chain.
A long needleful of the same cotton or silk used for the tatting is left at the beginning of the work, and a common needle used to buttonhole over bars wherever they occur.
If that is so, Mrs. Mortlock, even for the sake of the tatting pattern, I cannot consent to waste my words on you.
Miss Slowcum took a ladylike interest in all kinds of needlework, and the desire to possess the tatting pattern overcame her great reluctance to read aloud to the very tart old lady.
I can lend you that pattern you admired so much for tatting if you read me the latest gossip from the evening papers, ma'am.
The English name of tatting is said to be derived from «tatters» and to denote the frail disconnected character of the fabric.
Picots are introduced into tatting patterns as they are into knitting and crochet.
In every kind of tatting the knot that comes after the picot is independent of the loop.
The tatting shuttle consists of two oval blades of either bone, ivory, mother of pearl or tortoise-shell, pointed at both ends, and joined together in the middle.
When you have thus made two equal lengths, join them together with crochet, using a thread two numbers finer than the tatting thread; if the latter for instance was Fil d'Alsace No.
The tatting thread should be two numbers coarser than the crochet thread.
On account of a similarity in their construction, a chapter on tatting seems to form a natural sequence to the one on crochet and is in some ways a preparation for that on macramé which succeeds it.
A little practice is necessary to acquire the right action of the hands, there being always a tendency, the same as in tatting and macramé, to confuse the movements of the two.
Two shuttles are used in tatting when the little rings are not to be connected together at the bottom by a thread, when you want to hide the passage of the thread to another group of knots and when threads of several colours are used.
In the eighteenth century, when tatting was in great vogue, much larger shuttles than our present ones were used, because of the voluminous materials they had to carry, silk cord being one.
She went back to her tatting with a serene quietude that exasperated her only daughter beyond bounds.
Edith's color rose, her eyes fell on the tatting between her fingers.
Take your tatting needle, and, having threaded it with the appropriate material make a knot at the end.
Star tatting is well adapted for trimmings to a great many articles of apparel and ornament.
In the first place, I had no business to read those magazines that my governess told me not to, even if she did have so little sense that her brain must have been made of tatting work originally, which she was always doing by the yard.
I suppose you would like to make the boys learn to do tatting and sewing to let them in on that sort of kitten gatherings," said Sam, with a laugh that was not so nice as Tony's.
He did indeed look up as Vance came near and put down his box; but he said nothing, and closing his eyes, went on making tatting in silence.
For some time longer the Wizard madetatting in silence; then once again he spoke.
Aunt Jerry wrapped the lacy tatting stuff she had been making around the pearl shuttle and, putting both away in the Japanese work-basket, carefully snapped down the lid.
He dropped in, bringing his tatting shuttle, and sat and made tatting as well as any woman.
But even such a curiosity as Miss Bumps may have been in the early days of her portable residence and ever-present tatting grows ordinary when besieged by Time, and Wyoming no longer regarded her as a phenomenon.
Then he bowed politely, procured a glass of cider for the waiting Miss Bumps, who was tatting during the interval, and quietly took his leave.
Tatting shuttle, the shuttle on which the thread used in tattingis wound.
Andalusian Wool and Tatting Silk can be used if preferred.
For the Stars, Gold Twine or a skein of Crochet Silk, Tatting Pin No.
Andalusian Wool or Netting Silk; and Gold Twine or Tatting Silk No.
For the Stars, Gold Tatting Twine, or a skein of Crochet Silk, Tatting Pin No.
The Gold Tatting Twine can be obtained in two qualities; the least expensive should be used for Doyleys and Antimacassars, but for Church Needlework, or Collars and Sleeves, the better make is most suited.
For the Stars, Gold Tatting Twine or a skein of Crochet Silk, Tatting Pin No.
The new Tatting Silk is a substitute for the Gold, and is made in two sizes, No.
Bell Guage; Tatting Pin or Mesh which measures No.
The flakes were as large as an hour's circular tatting by Miss Wilkins's ablest spinster, betokening a heavy snowfall and less entertainment and more adventure than the completion of the tatting could promise.
My bridal present from my pastor's wife was a very wide collar of tatting and embroidery.
She had gone so far as to introduce Claire to her cousin, a Mrs. Richards, who had come in at the noon hour for a newtatting design.
I suppose I'm laying myself out for a roast doing tatting in public these war days!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tatting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
