A few years ago, I was gifted a set of teeny tiny crochet hooks that all seemed between 60 and 100 years old. I was told they were tatting hooks, but the person who told me that had never tatted a single tat in her life, nor had I, so I didn’t think much of them. Also, I don’t really crochet. No one was quite sure where they came from, but they were stored in a thin, tall, glass jar that was too short and top heavy, so it falls over a lot. I stored that jar inside a mason jar, and they quit falling over. I then put the mason jar on top of a shelf and forgot about them for a few years.
The fine folks over at FaveCrafts.com asked me to put together a short article explaining tatting to the lay audience, and since I’d had some questions about those crochet hooks, and I rarely leave my house anymore, I was happy to oblige. I’m still not finished with my first tatting project, but if you see me on the morning work video calls, I’m probably making little half hitch knots the whole time.
Read “What is Tatting?” on Favecrafts today.
