Avital <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I do both netting and tatting. A netting needle doesn't hold nearly as much as a >tatting shuttle. You can't fill a netting shuttle too full because then it won't >go through the holes of the netting or it will stretch the holes while you're >forming the knots. Netting needles only hold a couple yards.
I do both netting and tatting, too, and here is my comment: The amount a netting needle will hold depends partly on the length of the netting needle. I always wind mine "figure-8" fashion, so the thread bulks out to the sides. I have one netting needle that I put a 20-yard skein of embroidery floss on, and I think at the time I was doing quarter-inch mesh with it. To do a circular net, in order for the shuttle to fit, instead of just making a tail, I put a couple of yards on another netting shuttle and worked the center rounds with that, then switched to the more-full shuttle. You could use a tatting shuttle for netting, *but* the mesh would have to be big enough to fit the width of the tatting shuttle through. Basically, what I have found, whether I am working big nets for bags or fine hair-net mesh, is that tatting shuttles work best for tatting, and netting shuttles, whether the "needle" type or one of the "netting shuttle" types, work best for netting! :) Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
