tatting

Example Sentences

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Thousands of young women were given an education and a portable skill, their equipment — tatting shuttle, thread, needles, crochet hooks — small enough to fit in a pocket, and take to America.

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2016

From the outside it's kind of amusing to think of you as a prisoner in your own home as your mother-in-law takes over the porch with her tatting and smoking.

From Slate • May 29, 2013

Or as the milestone is better known in body-art circles, tatting 300.

From Seattle Times • May 23, 2012

Last year has to be one of the worst episodes of senatorial tatting in history.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2012

“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the first place ribbon in the novice tatting category goes to...Miss Lula Gates! Let’s have a big cheer for Miss Lula Gates!”

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly