How to Tat Flowers on to your sockies

Knitting socks is one of life’s great pleasures.  Handmade socks are just luscious, and they….well….. um….  knock the socks off of any kind of store bought sock.

Lately, I have taken to adding a touch of whimsy to my sock knitting.

photo and project by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright

Now, I add tatted flowers to the top edges of my handknitted sockies.

I posted the pattern for tatted sock toppers a few weeks back:

Tatted Flower pattern

For awhile now, several of my friends have been asking me to please make a video about tatting.

I was kind of chicken to do that, because I hold my hands in an unconventional way in tatting.

I figured I would take flak about it.

I mentioned this on the Ravelry group: Tatta-Tat-Tatters .

One of the members is  a very experienced tatter who is very generous in her advice and mentorship.

She said: “Oh, don’t worry about people fussing about oddball ways of holding your hands when you tat!

People need to see lots of different ways of tatting. Just go for it. ”

I respect her a lot, and so I decided, alrighty!

I would go ahead and make a video about how I tat flowers onto socks.

I did the video.

And discovered, much to my chagrin, that I had made a video that was 10 minutes and 26 seconds long.

Ack! YouTube refuses to upload anything that is ONE second over 10 minutes. erk.

And, my Flip video allows you to trim the beginning or the end of the video… not the blatherie bits in the middle.

So….. I had to knit the second sock before I could make the video over again.

I sure wasn’t going to cut the tatting off to make the video over.

Needing the second sock to be done got me over ’second sockitis’ pretty quickly!

Alright! Take Two:

This time, I kept my beady little eye on the clock, which did make for a couple of fumbles,oh well…

BUT- YAY!  I got the video done in under 10 minutes.

I hope that it helps show how I tat fleurs on sockies…. and will help you tat ‘em, too, if you want to!