TattingChic's Library: Barbara Foster

Welcome to My Tatting Library!

Welcome to My Tatting Library!
With my ever consuming love for all things tatting it seems only fitting that my tatting library would grow on a constant basis. The only way to keep track of these well loved tatting books is to keep an alphabetized index of them.
"Better yet," I thought to myself, "Why don't I share it with the online tatting community and they can add any thoughts or opinions about the book as they see fit."
Each book will have it's own blog post. If you happen to have one of these books feel free to share your own thoughts, comments, or reviews in the comment section of the blog post for that book!
Many thanks to:
Barbara Foster of Handy Hands Tatting
Heather A. Johnston of Heather's Designs
Peggy of Iva Rose Reproductions
Jules Kliot of Lacis
Sherry Pence of Lady ShuttleMaker
Wally Sosa of Needles-n-Shuttles
Tamara of Sesame99
Sandy Forrington of SFO's Picot Lace
Tyra of Tyras Vintage Finds
Marilee Rockley of Yarnplayer
Jennifer of ZigZag Corner
for their permission to copy photos of book covers and link to their shops!

Special Thanks to:
Joanne from 1-2-3 Stitch
for sending me a photo of a book to use!
The businesses who have given me permission to copy photos and link to their shops are in no way giving me any financial compensation for doing this. My compensation is the satisfaction of getting an alphabetized index of my personal tatting library organized and sharing it with the online tatting community! This is only an index of my tatting library, only the cover of the book is shown.

Oh, and one last thing...
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None of these books are for sale or loan by me.
However, clicking on the photo of the book will very often take you to purchasing information from one of the shop owners.
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Learn Needle Tatting

Step-by-step
by Barbara Foster
© 1998 Handy Hands, Inc.
ISBN-13: 9781883432058
ISBN-10: 1883432057

Click on photo for source.

Summary: Yes, I do have a "Learn to Needle Tat" book in my tatting library! (GASP!!)
It's a soft cover 32 page booklet that also includes 6 patterns that can be easily adapted to shuttle tatting.
In fact, I even have the "Learn to Needle Tat - KIT"! (HORRORS!!!)
Truth is, I am an avid tatter. When I say tatter I don't feel the need to differentiate shuttle from needle because the definition of tatting is a form of handmade lace made by a series of knots formulated by a reverse hitch-stitch more commonly called the double-stitch. The only way to make this kind of stitch is with a shuttle of some sort. Needle tatting is something else, and yes, it looks like tatting, but it's not. It's made with a "hitch stitch"...not a "reverse hitch stitch", therefore it doesn't fit the definition of tatting.
Okay, that said, why do I have this book in my tatting library? Am I going over to "The Dark Side"??? LOL! Nope, I want to learn needle tatting so that if I run into someone who is doing needle tatting and they want to learn how to tat the correct way I want to have an understanding of where they are coming from. Therefore, I can be a better teacher in their transition from needle tatting to shuttle tatting. That's all I'm going to say. I don't want to ☺"needle" ☺ my friends who do the other kind of "tatting" too much because it's a highly emotional subject in the online tatting community...HO boy!

The book shown is part of an "Alphabetized Index of my Personal Tatting Library" and is not for sale by me. I receive no financial compensation from any book sellers for posting or linking to any shops. Feel free to leave your own comments or review about this book in the comments.

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