Beginning to Use Beads in Tatting

Beginning to Use Beads in Tatting

Add an extra touch of elegance to your tatting with this gentle, supportive workshop designed to help you begin using beads in your work.

During this class, you will learn:

• How to plan bead placement in a pattern

• When to load beads onto the bobbin, the shuttle, or keep them loose

• How to work beads neatly into rings and chains

• How beaded tatting behaves differently from plain tatting

• Tips for choosing bead sizes and colours that complement your cotton

We will make a pair of pretty beaded earrings together, and if there is time, you’ll also start a small decorative beaded motif.

Experience Level

Students must have some basic tatting experience (able to make rings and chains, and form a consistent double stitch). This workshop is not suitable for complete beginners.

What to Bring

• Notepad and pen

• Glasses (if needed for close work)

• 2 × tatting shuttles

• 1 ball of #5 pearl cotton (any colour)

• 1 × 0.6 mm crochet hook

• 1 needle with an eye large enough for the cotton

• 1 strand of beads (to match or contrast your cotton) — available to purchase next door

All other instructions, support, and inspiration will be provided on the day.

Date: Saturday 25th April 2026
Time: 10:00am – 3:30pm (includes half an hour for lunch)

This class is held upstairs at:
Patchwork Dreamer
9 Market House Arcade
Bodmin
Cornwall
PL31 2JA

Please read our terms and conditions before booking this class. Once you have booked, I am unable to refund.