{"id":928,"date":"2014-12-16T15:21:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T15:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/?p=928"},"modified":"2014-12-16T15:21:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T15:21:09","slug":"continuous-thread-method-my-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/continuous-thread-method-my-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuous Thread Method&#8211;my tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did I mention before that I am innately lazy!?!?!<\/p>\n<p>I am also short on tatting time&#8211;meaning that because I work full-time, time available to me to tat is veeeeerrrrry limited.<\/p>\n<p>Combine these two things and you learn that I have developed ways to cope with tatting techniques &#8216;in my own way&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0<em>(as we all have!)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I love to start a tatted piece\/block\/round\/etc. with Continuous Thread Method (CTM) because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are not 2 starting thread ends to have to finish.<\/li>\n<li>The start is more stable\/structurally sound<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thus as I was tatting this morning <em>(just before starting work)<\/em> I stopped to shoot this picture showing my approach to CTM.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-927\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSCN1455.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-927 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSCN1455-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN1455\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSCN1455-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSCN1455-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My approach to CTM technique<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In this case today I was starting fresh with a new thread color&#8211;in the process of winding two shuttles CTM.\u00a0 What I do is wind the first shuttle.\u00a0 Then I unwind an appropriate amount of thread (for the second shuttle) onto the first shuttle.\u00a0 But I add an extra twist to it by using\u00a02 pieces of plastic <em>(that I keep in my tatting pouch)<\/em> on either side of the shuttle.\u00a0 These pieces of plastic will not allow the thread to slip off the rounded\/slanted\u00a0edges of my shuttle.\u00a0 Then I cut the thread from the ball and wind this thread end onto my second shuttle.\u00a0 In the past, when I didn&#8217;t use these plastic pieces, as I was winding the thread onto the second shuttle, the thread would slip off the first shuttle and I would end up with tangles of thread which would really frustrate me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did I mention before that I am innately lazy!?!?! I am also short on tatting time&#8211;meaning that because I work full-time, time available to me to tat is veeeeerrrrry limited. Combine these two things and you learn that I have developed ways to cope with tatting techniques &#8216;in my own way&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0(as we all have!). I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/continuous-thread-method-my-tip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continuous Thread Method&#8211;my tip<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","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=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}