Learn Needle Tatting With My Flower Pendant

Step 5 Creating A Ring

1. Create any number of ds with any number of picots. For our flower pendant, make a ring consisting of six ds with a long picot(1 inch) followed by six more ds.

2. Slide the ds off the needle onto the thread that is in the eye of the needle, keeping the loop forming at the end from closing by placing your pinky in the loop.

3. Bring the needle tip through the loop and pull the loop closed. This is referred to as 'close the ring' in written patterns

4. The last step is to turn the ring over and tie a knot at the top. This is referred to as reverse work or rw.

Comments

[sanyogita]

thanks TotusMel. I had learnt how to tat with my grand ma and was totally intregued,by needle tatting .i tried and tried till i got it right it is so much easier than using the shuttle. thanks again !!

[starlightwings]

I had trouble getting the where the ball of thread side goes and where the tail goes in relationship to the needle. I needed to see the ball of thread the entire time in the pictures.
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[CindyNG]

Thanks for answering so quickly! Yes I did but sometimes watching it again, I might be able to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I'll give it another go. :-)

[CindyNG]

Hi TotusMel, This is the step where I lose it. I can't seem to get the row off the needle and into a nice ring. I can keep the ring like in the picture but somehow after that, it's a huge mess. Suggestions? Thanks! Cindy

[TotusMel]

Have you watched the video yet, it might help...You want to make sure you pull the thread all the way through the loop before you pull closed...other than that I'm not sure what other tips to give.