{"id":889,"date":"2014-12-05T15:21:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T15:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/?p=889"},"modified":"2014-12-05T15:21:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T15:21:53","slug":"5-december-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/5-december-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"5 December 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘Weathervane’ Quilt-Block Split Ring Tatting—To Be Finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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View of how I ‘deal’ with tatting a larger piece<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve given up trying to give\u00a0every blog post a title…so today it just has a date.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is what I’ve been working on.\u00a0 The photos show the piece in progress.<\/p>\n

The bottom photo<\/strong> <\/span>shows how I rolled up the completed tatting to more easily work the last section.\u00a0 I used a safety pin (one of the things I always have in my tatting bag that goes everywhere with me!) <\/em>to pin between the tatting (never<\/strong> piercing the actual thread work).\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

The\u00a0top photo<\/strong> <\/span>shows the piece tatted but still sporting ‘ends’ that need to be finished.\u00a0 You will note that there are two thread ends, not four, for each section\/motif to finish.\u00a0 That is because I always start Continuous Thread Method (CTM)—but not always with both starting shuttles wound continuously with all the thread I need for the whole project.\u00a0 You see, I am innately lazy & frugal<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> I many times choose the color of thread for a project by what is still left on my shuttles from a previous project.\u00a0 I have little time to actually tat and thus don’t want to waste the\u00a0time I can be physically tatting (as in creating the lace)<\/em> by spending it winding shuttles.\u00a0 So IF I’m lucky I will have two shuttles of matching thread leftover with various amounts of thread on them that I use—but they are NOT continuous.<\/p>\n

My Continuous Thread Method\u00a0Strategy #1<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I unwind at least a half-a-yard to one-yard of thread from one shuttle.\u00a0 I tie this thread end (overhand knot)<\/em> to a thread end on\u00a0a totally different shuttle (leftovers from yet another project<\/em>—preferably in a different color).\u00a0 <\/em>Wind the thread end onto the ‘other-thread shuttle’.\u00a0 You will now have two shuttles wound continuous.<\/p>\n

Tat the project until you run out of thread on the ‘temporary shuttle’.\u00a0 Then do a Thread Replacement Strategy technique to swap out the depleted temporary shuttle with the other thread\/shuttle you have ready for the project.\u00a0 The reason I choose a different color of thread on the second\/temporary shuttle is so that you can visually see and thus gauge how much thread you have left to use before you need to do a ‘Thread Replacement Strategy’ <\/em><\/p>\n

This piece\u00a0is\u00a0one of many pieces that I have designed for the August 2015 IOLI Convention class that I am teaching titled Quilt-Inspired Fun with Split Ring Tatting<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 In that class I will be also be teaching a ‘side-class’ on Thread Replacement Strategies<\/span> and Strategies for Dealing with Thread Ends (Starting & Ending).\u00a0 More about all of that in future blog posts!!!!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve given up trying to give\u00a0every blog post a title…so today it just has a date. This is what I’ve been working on.\u00a0 The photos show the piece in progress. The bottom photo shows how I rolled up the completed tatting to more easily work the last section.\u00a0 I used a safety pin (one of … Continue reading 5 December 2014<\/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-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","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=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}