Tatting Course

🧵✨ Course Overview

This beautifully structured 6-Week Tatting Course is designed for absolute beginners who wish to learn the delicate and traditional art of handmade lace making in a clear, progressive, and confidence-building way.

Tatting is a mindful textile skill that combines rhythm, precision, and creativity. Throughout the course, students are guided step-by-step to understand how lace is constructed using rings, chains, picots, and joining techniques. Emphasis is placed on developing correct hand positioning, tension control, neat stitch formation, and pattern interpretation so that learners build strong technical foundations rather than simply copying projects.

Each weekly session introduces carefully sequenced techniques that gradually increase in complexity. Students will practise on structured samples before applying their skills to small decorative projects such as motifs, bookmarks, jewellery pieces, and lace edgings. In addition to practical construction skills, participants will learn about thread selection, shuttle handling, blocking and finishing methods, and basic creative design considerations.

By the end of the program, students will feel confident working independently on beginner-level tatting patterns and will have completed several neat handmade lace items. This course is ideal for craft enthusiasts, textile hobbyists, slow-stitch learners, and anyone interested in preserving traditional needle arts while developing a relaxing and rewarding creative skill.

 

✨ For complete Beginners

Goal:

By the end of this course students will understand tatting fundamentals, confidently read simple patterns, and complete neat decorative lace projects independently.

 

🌿 Week 1 — Introduction to Tatting & Basic Rings

Learning Focus.....

• What is tatting (history, uses, materials)

• Shuttle vs needle tatting overview

• Understanding thread types & sizes

• How to wind a shuttle

• Hand positioning & tension control

• Double stitch foundation

• Making the first ring

 

Practical Outcome.....

✔ Students create simple practice rings

✔ Understand stitch formation

 

🌿 Week 2 — Chains & Joining Techniques

 

Learning Focus......

• Chain formation

• Difference between ring and chain

• Picot making (small / decorative / joining picots)

• Basic joining method

• Maintaining consistent tension

• Turning work correctly

 

Practical Outcome.....

✔ Create ring + chain sample strip

✔ First simple lace motif

 

🌿 Week 3 — Reading Patterns & Decorative Picots

 

Learning Focus.....

• Understanding tatting abbreviations

• How to read simple diagrams

• Measuring picots evenly

• Split rings introduction (concept level)

• Lock joins

 

Practical Outcome......

✔ Small coaster / motif project

 

🌿 Week 4 — Working with Multiple Rings & Repeats

 

Learning Focus.....

• Pattern repetition confidence

• Working continuous lace

• Handling mistakes & corrections

• Thread management & preventing tangles

• Blocking basics

 

Practical Outcome.....

✔ Bookmark or lace edging strip

 

🌿 Week 5 — Advanced Beginner Techniques

 

Learning Focus......

• Split chains introduction

• Mock picots

• Adding beads to tatting

• Colour changes

• Neat finishing methods

 

Practical Outcome......

✔ Decorative beaded motif / bracelet

 

🌿 Week 6 — Confidence Project & Creative Application

 

Learning Focus......

• Planning a complete project

• Speed vs control balance

• Design confidence

• Pattern modification basics

• Care and storage of lace

 

Final Project Options.....

 

✔ Lace earrings

✔ Small doily

✔ Decorative edging for fabric

✔ Pendant / bookmark

 

⭐ End of Course Achievement

 

You will be able to......

✅ Tat rings and chains confidently

✅ Join motifs neatly

✅ Read beginner patterns

✅ Maintain consistent tension

✅ Complete small lace projects independently

✅ Begin exploring intermediate tatting

 

Duration: 6 Weeks

Frequency: 1 Day per Week

Class Length: 1.5 Hours per Session

Day : Wednesday 

Timings: 5pm to 6:30pm

Fee : $65 per week

 

★★ Please note the weekly breakdown is a guide only. Every learner is different some might be slow while others fast. The content will be covered eitherways within the 6 weeks. ★★