all right so if you're doing a chain and your shuttle wasn't attached to the ball if that's confusing then go watch my previous video the third video to see what i'm talking about and we're going to continue this is this video is basically continuation of that video it's going to teach you how to do a chain so here i've had my ring like this what i go to do a chain i'm going to do what they call flipping your work or reversing your work because tatting always happens in a clockwise manner and so you're going to imagine this tail is going to go up like this which means if i were to do it this direction it would kind of be going off to the side this way and you'd be tatting from right to left instead of what you should be talking left to right and so to order keep the flood going left to right you're gonna have to flip your work over so you flip it like that and then at this point i'm going to tack down this little end of the thread the same way i did in that ring video when you do chain stitches you wrap this around at least i do i wrap it around my pinky okay so you're not holding the thread the same way as with rings you just kind of hold that around your pinky and in my mind it does get a little cumbersome but i haven't found a better way to do it so i just grabbed my pinky and kind of tuck my pinky in and go on with one so but this part is all the same so you're going to take this working thread you're working throughout the stage the same the whole time you're just tatting around this thread now okay so you can go underneath with that working thread and then through both of the threads again it's going to be wound around this uh steady thread you're going to have to relax that finger relax those fingers and click on the thread to get it to transfer that knot and then just to secure that end i go through like that so again doing the other stitch now i'm going the opposite direction transferring my knot and having it putting that end of that thread through those knots those loops and as you as you tat as you tap you're gonna have i should have done that before so as you tap this this thread on your hand is going to get tighter so it's going into the tatting so you have to loosen it and rewind and readjust basically give yourself some more slack chatting the chains are not my favorite part because it kind of gets awkward in your hands but i just sort of like i said i just want to muscle through it and go along with life now if i were to do a pk on a chain it's the same way as on a ring as i'm just going to transfer that knot leave it how the gap however big i want to do the second half of the stitch and pull it tight and that becomes your pk and you just keep padding however your pattern says you