siblings by chance, friends by choice

Thanks to Muskaan and Lalla Caliò! They both found by chance two different siblings (ops! I mean variants) of the tds.

I had started with a dmc size 10 thread, but then those siblings look alike, as it happens in many families. A close up didn't help, so I switched tatting with a rope...

In pictures:
tds = treble tatting stitch
htds = half  tds, kindly shared by Muskaan (you already know, she's the Smiling Lady);
ptds = padded tds, kindly shared by Lalla Caliò (you may find her in Facebook).

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If you're following her blog, you know that Muskaan already shared her variant, here: https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2018/08/leaning-towers.html
She explained that forgot to pull the second loop (for the sequence of steps for tatting a tds, please refer to my post: treble tatting - ideas or this other post by Muskaan: dissecting tds).

Then, the first half of the tds lost its coils and the stitch leaned like a little Tower of Pisa! We agreed to call it the half treble (abbreviated: htds).

That is what she did with the half treble:

• Start with a very small picot and one double stitch. 
• Laying the picot across the ball thread and pull up a loop of thread through the picot.
• Now slip the shuttle through the loop thus formed. Don't tighten it, yet. 
• Take a loop of the core thread in the ring finger, then pass the shuttle from back to front, through the loop, 3 times. 
• Tighten the ball thread and don't let the core thread slip out of place. 
• Then, pull the core thread.

She also noticed that the second 'leg' of the tds can be done in the same way as we tat a twisted picot. She's a nice tatting friend, very clever. And generous, in fact she will share that soon. Like Georgia Seitz said: “There is no one way to tat”! (There is a DVD with an amazing collection of over 30 different styles of tatting, you may find it at this link: https://www.palmettotatters.org/fundraisers.shtml)

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The other variation is by Lalla Caliò.
Provided that the second part of the original tds is very similar to a vapour stitch (you can find one of my drawing in Flickr and a video by Karen Cabrera in her YouTube channel), Lalla found that the second part of the tds  can be substituted by something like a spiral knot. That is, the effect she obtained is that the wraps are coiled around the core thread. Actually, the spiral knot is a padded half stitch (there is another great video by Karen) and you may like reading again a very informative post by Muskaan about padded tatting (https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2015/11/pds-padded-double-stitch.html).

So, I suggested her to call this the padded treble (abbreviated: ptds).

That is what Lalla did for tatting the padded treble:

• Start with a very small picot and one double stitch. 
• Laying the picot across the ball thread and pull up a loop of thread through the picot. 
• Then, take another loop of the ball thread and pull it through the previous loop.
• Now slip the shuttle 3 times through the loop thus formed. Don't tighten it, yet. 
• Tighten the ball thread and don't let the core thread slip out of place. 
• Then, pull the core thread.

I tried many times and found out that - for me - passing the shuttle from front to back is better than passing it from back to front, through the loop. But it can be something useful to know, when creating front and back side for a tatting element. You may try yourself out and let me know your opinion.

That's just the theory.  Many thanks to those nice friends who shared their ideas and gave me the permission to share with you, too. As a good friend said, "who know when or where someone might use it"!

The petals in the rose are tatted by Lalla with padded trebles. It's lovely, isn't it?

In the next picture, a family portrait:

The stitches' heigh decreases, the taller being the tds, then the half tds, then there's the ptds that is quite the same level as the ds.

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And what are you going to call that monster of mine?

(details in a week!)

Ciao,
Ninetta