I recently switched to only doing unflipped chains when I tat. This is not my idea -- I got it from this YouTube video by Sparrow Spite. There are going to be quite a few words in this post. Enjoy! Why would we want to not flip our chains? Seems kinda weird. Unflipped chains basically mean you stay on the front side of the tatting the entire time you're tatting (unless you're working a two-shuttle pattern). And you can tat faster. Unflipped chains mean you don't have to reverse work nearly as often, or adjust the thread coming off the shuttle as often when switching from rings to chains or back, since you're reversing the shuttle that is used for the stitch thread.
Personal projects and retrospection.