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Here is a listing of instructions:

*Materials Needed
*How to get started
*Understanding the double stitch
*Making the double stitch
*Making the picot
*Working a double stitch with a shuttle *Making a chain
*Making a ring
*Joining With Picots
*Join Last Ring to First
*Continuous Thread Method(CTM)
*Making ring and chain combo
*How to not have a twisted picot at the ending join
*Adding new thread
*Finishing off
*Shoe Lace Trick
*Magic Thread Trick
*Reading patterns
*Working with two shuttles
*Working with three shuttles
*Working with 4 or more shuttles
*Double Picots
*Triple Picots
*Josephine Picot
*Loading Beads On To A Picot
*Pearl Tatting
*Zig Zag Tatted Chain
*Downward Facing Picot
*Bead on Downward Facing Picot
*Block Tatting
*Split Ring
*False Picot
*Lock Joins
*Single Shuttle Split Ring
*Split Chain
*Cluny leaves
*Diagramming patterns
*Tatting with Wire
*Dizzy Double Stitch
*Dizzy Picot
*Maltese Ring
*Maltese Split Ring
*Half Ring Braid

Here is a list of other wonderful sites with online instructions:

Tat's All
Sharon's Tatting demo
Carrie Carlson's Shuttle instructions
Lorah Gross Techniques in pictures and video
How to tat a Double Stitch by Rhonda Butler
Cherie Wheeler "How To Shuttle Tat"
Jen's Tat-ra Sutra Ð Learn how to tat
Lisa TrumbleÕs Basic Tatting
Marilee double stitch instruction
LaRaeÕs Picotnet basic instructions
RogerÕs Needle Tatting Two instructions for almost all techniques
PamDeÕs Needle Tatting
Handy Hand's Needle tatting
Needle Tatting Instructions
Magic Thread Trick at Tat's All
Avoiding the Twisted Picot for Needletatters
Avoiding the Twisted Picot for Shuttle Tatters
Cluny leaf instructions
Tatting
Split Chain Instr.
Making the last join--avoiding the twisted picot
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