Ugh! Forgetting to join

[poeticfairy]

I think I already know the answer and am just trying to avoid what I already know but, hey, I am hoping for some magic cure.

I am making a bracelet for someone and after waiting weeks to get the thread I was happy to finally get back to it. I told myself I would do one more section and then call it a night. Anyway, since the pattern is pretty easy, with me doing the sections over and over, I often tat without thinking and when I get to the very last ring/picot I forget to join it to the first ring. Which is what I did tonight. So, my happiness of completing another part of the bracelet and sleeping well tonight turned to sadness :(.

So, what do you guys do when this happens? Do you prefer to cut off the section you completed and do it again? Cut the ring and join new thread? Spent 6 hours trying to undo the ring? Or my hope: A magic cure that doesn't involve either of those:smile:?

It is tatted with a very fine thread so the ring is next to impossible to undo :yuk:.

[PattyD]

Well, I have had this problem and here's what I did:

I took a piece of the thread that the project was made of, threaded it on a needle and sewed under the caps next to the picot that had not been joined.
Then I used the needle and thread to pick up the picot that I hadn't joined to and wove through it.
Finally I wove under the caps on the other side of the missed picot.

If you watch your tension as you go along, you won't even be able to see it.

[carolivy]

I have done something very similar to what Patty did. I do not take the piece apart just for a missed join!

[IcePrincess]

Wherever possible I use a sewing needle, or a special split-eye beading needle, since some of them do come thinner than any other needle I was able to get here in Germany

[Sewicked]

Apparently I'm the 'lazy Susan'. I just do an old-fashioned picot join. I tie those suckers together, :innocent: using the same thread, of course.

[poeticfairy]

Thanks Patty D! I was thinking there has to be a way to sew it in somehow but I wasn't sure the best way on how to go about it. I'm going to try that.

IcePrincess, I thought that was my invention of using a split-eye beading needle:biggrin:. I use them to sew in ends when I tat with the finer thread. It works wonderfully :o).

Sewicked, I usually take the 'Lazy Susan' way too. Though, the way I do it I end up noticing it (maybe no one else does.) Since this bracelet is for someone I wanted to try another way.

Thanks, Patty D, Carolivy, IcePrincess and Sewicked! :flowers:

[patrice]

I agree with you all-but I use an extra fine tatting needle-even if you can not get the thread through the stitches,it makes it easier to hide the cover up.

[Lynn]

Usually when I make this mistake, I also have put the picot in the last ring, instead of joining to the previous picot. I've tried sewing the two picots together, but it never looks right. So, I almost always retro tat to the joining and then make it right. I've just never been able to figure out how to make it look like it's supposed to any other way. :(