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Needle Tatting A Necklace

Needle Tatting A Necklace
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If you've mastered the tatted flower instructable, you're ready to learn a few new techniques. This necklace will help you learn split rings, josephine knots and clovers to create a wearable piece of tatted art.

This necklace is a modified version of my Fleurette necklace.

You will need basic needle tatting experience easily learned in my other instructable including the double stitch(ds), picots(p), rings(r), chains(ch) and joining.

This design used size 10 crochet cotton and a size 5 tatting needle.

The laws of Copyright Protection permit this tutorial to be used for personal use only. Reselling for profit is prohibited.


 
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Step 1Josephine Knot

Josephine Knot
Start by threading your needle leaving about a six foot tail in the eye of the needle.

1.Make a ring of 3ds 1p 3ds 1p 3ds 1p 3ds. Close and reverse work

The Josephine knot is simply the first half of the double stitch repeated creating a spiral chain.

After every 10th stitch you will want to take the thread up and around the needle to maintain an even spiral.

For this design we will be making a Josephine knot chain of 60 stitches. Pull the thread through the needle as you would for a normal chain. Close and reverse work.
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24 comments
May 24, 2012. 1:14 PMSusanYEngland says:
I feel like Johnny come lately on this one, but I have to ask. How do you know how long to make the tail before you start? I always seem to come up short and then don't know what to do but start over.
Thanks
May 14, 2012. 2:37 PMsuchaps1020 says:
Thanks you, It looks great!
May 12, 2012. 2:22 PMsuchaps1020 says:
Love your necklace!, I have one for each of my granddaughters (4)..Be trying to figure how to make matching earrings. I used the pendent pattern but haven't figured out how to hang them. tried a chain with picot across top but that didn't look right. Any suggestions? Happy Mothers Day!
Feb 15, 2011. 7:03 PMPenolopy Bulnick says:
Why do you steam it when you are done? Does that stiffen it?
Dec 30, 2011. 11:41 PMCeline11 says:
I just discovered Tatting a couple of days ago on a You Tube video and I have been obsessed ever since and I am dying to try this wonderful art as soon as I can get some needles.

Would anyone know where I can get them in Canada?

I just can't wait to try this stunning necklace of yours.

What material is Tatting thread made of?

Thank you so much for such a generous sharing of your talent with us it is so appreciated.
Feb 1, 2010. 8:19 PMAdalei says:
 Ooh! I loved the way this looked, I just HAD to learn how to do this :D
My mom saw it right before it was finished and she was jealous, so I'm going to make another one for her in black with beads (hopefully). Thanks for posting this with such clear pictures and instructions!

Apr 7, 2011. 10:46 PMNaturalCrafter says:
Oh! Adalei, You did a fantastic job! The purple is really cool. When you do the half hitch in the same direction you get the spiral pattern.
Apr 7, 2011. 10:42 PMNaturalCrafter says:
I finally got it figured out. I love the necklace as it reminds me a bit like an Irish pattern. This is more my size project to start out with.
Apr 5, 2011. 2:22 AMShindou says:
Any clue what I did wrong? My Ch. 10 is heading the exact opposite of the one in the picture, forming a bit of an S-curve. I am also confused on how to close and not reverse....
Jul 15, 2010. 4:58 AMMaldris says:
is that meant to be 5. Ch 10ds cl rw?
Jul 15, 2010. 5:20 AMMaldris says:
Never mind I got the second image to display so I can see it now ( was having issues getting it to load before)
May 30, 2010. 10:45 AMprabhjyotsaini says:
 This is beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!
I love the design & completed it with no trouble at all with your easy to follow instructions.
Hats off to you!!!!
Jan 25, 2010. 8:21 PMkithlyara says:
I have been wanting to learn how to tat since I first started crocheting when I was in my teens, roughly 15 years ago.  In spite of gobs of patience, tons of hours and many how-to books, learning how to tat always managed to elude me. 

Then, I discovered needle tatting and your flower pendant tutorial.  Last night, I sat down with a yarn darner needle and some crochet thread, read the flower pendant instructions, watched the video for it, and actually finished it! 

After making about a half dozen of the flower pendants as practice, I went to a local craft shop and purchased a set of actual needle tatting needles and some nylon thread.  Tonight, I'm confidently working on this pattern so I can proudly wear the necklace with my garb while I perform at my local Renaissance faire in a couple of months.

I sincerely cannot thank you enough for posting your patterns and tutorials!  You helped me learn a craft that I've wanted to know how to do for 15 years!!!
Nov 15, 2009. 12:02 PMzako says:
awesome ! this is beautiful. im going to make my girl friend one for christmas :) thanks for sharing all your tatting noledge! 
May 24, 2009. 9:55 PMtatihana00 says:
i finished mine, though i wish i had black... still i think it's really pretty.
Apr 9, 2009. 8:54 AMShopgirl674 says:
That is ..... amazing! What a beautiful art tatting is xo
Apr 9, 2009. 6:48 AMJaelle says:
Oh!! It's beautiful!
Apr 8, 2009. 6:27 PMvikki77 says:
Thank you! You are a needle tatting queen!

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