{"id":1864,"date":"2015-10-22T21:55:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T21:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2015-10-22T21:55:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T21:55:36","slug":"my-tatting-bag-goes-with-me-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/my-tatting-bag-goes-with-me-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"My tatting Bag–goes with me everywhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The ancillary tatting tools I keep in my tatting bag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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My tatting bag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The shuttles in my tatting bag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was on the Amtrak train 2 weeks ago heading from Omaha to Grand Junction for a long-weekend vacation when I decided to take inventory of what I had in my tatting bag.\u00a0 I love those little round, \u00a0‘jewelry-travel’ bags.\u00a0 My personal favorites are the ones without a rigid base—they squish-down better to stuff into my purse.\u00a0 I have this tatting bag in my purse and with me ALL THE TIME!\u00a0 In fact, if it accidentally gets left at home, I sort of freak out.\u00a0 It feels\u00a0\u00a0like a major part of my life is missing.<\/p>\n

In regards to my shuttles<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0 I use the Boye plastic fixed-center post shuttles.\u00a0 These are the shuttles I could find growing up in the 70’s (yikes I’m giving away my age!!)<\/em> in rural NE Nebraska.\u00a0 Thus I got use to them:\u00a0 their feel in my hand, the (larger)<\/em> amount of thread they hold, the usefulness of the point, etc.\u00a0 If you look close you can see my tatting-in-progress, a SRT snowflake of my own design.\u00a0\u00a0The ‘aero-type’ shuttles (the 2 colorful ones are HH Aerlits)<\/em> are only in my tatting bag to be used as crochet hooks.\u00a0 I recently purchased the 3 HH Moonlit shuttles on the lower right.\u00a0 They seem to have everything I like in a shuttle:\u00a0 larger size (I have larger hands), same size as the Boyes; holds a decent amount of thread–probably more than my beloved\u00a0Boyes; & a built-in hook—something I’ve never had before in a center-post shuttle.\u00a0 Pictured is also a Clover shuttle (my secondary-favorite shuttle) and a NAG (Needle Arts Goddess) handmade wood shuttle.<\/p>\n

In regards to my Ancillary Tools (top to bottom):\u00a0<\/span> <\/strong>A paper copy of my current pattern; my reading glasses in a hard case (I’m old!);<\/em> pen & mechanical pencil (to jot-down new pattern ideas & correct current patterns)<\/em>; Uncle Bill’s Tweezers (for the occasional opening-a-closed-ring problem);<\/em> safety pins (for pinning my work in progress out of the way); scissor-snip in an enclosed case (God’s gift to my tatting!);<\/em> an old perfume-sample glass vial, probably from the 60’s to house my size 24 tapestry needles that I use to sew-in ends; metal tooth-pick & sheath (my irreplaceable Split Ring Tatting tool to encourage tiny ‘joining-picots’ to be big enough to get a crochet hook into to create a join)<\/em>; 2 pieces of plastic (used to unwind\/wind thread to create ‘continuous thread method’ between two shuttles<\/em>–See previous post http:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/continuous-thread-method-my-tip\/ for\u00a0my how-to.<\/p>\n

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  I was on the Amtrak train 2 weeks ago heading from Omaha to Grand Junction for a long-weekend vacation when I decided to take inventory of what I had in my tatting bag.\u00a0 I love those little round, \u00a0‘jewelry-travel’ bags.\u00a0 My personal favorites are the ones without a rigid base—they squish-down better to stuff … Continue reading My tatting Bag–goes with me everywhere!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1866,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/1866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}