Showing posts with label reverse work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reverse work. Show all posts

Friday, June 27, 2008

"Reverse Work" vs. "Turn Work" TATTING tutorial

I think this can be a confusing concept for beginner tatters. So I tried to simplify the concepts for you visually.
This example is tatted in the traditional way.

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Reverse Work "RW" means to flip from top to bottom.

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Turn Work "TW" means to turn like a page in a book...from right to left.

Notice how the chain turned directions. I use a lot of TW's in my patterns.

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Here's a bonus picture showing a "floating ring". If Orange is Shuttle #1 and green is shuttle #2 (in lieu of ball thread), you can use shuttle #2 to throw off rings.

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