bit by bit

I'm very slow tatting, lately. Gradually, I hope that all WIPs will turn to finished objects instead of UFOs. I've almost finished the bedspread for the dollhouse, forgot where the swirling butterflies doily is, and still got bogged down by the treble tatting project (if you like, read my own definitions of  WIP and UFO here: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2017/12/spread.html)

Today I only have samples to show you.

There are daisy picots and also daisy picots with unflipped stitches, in which I tried to mix double and treble stitches.

Actually, daisy picots are called picots but they are like chains, as they involve tatting unflipped stitches on the thread that is used for picots. It is like in Maltese ring tatting, both techniques have unflipped stitches made with a second thread, but there is a difference. There's a post by Miranda (here: https://tattingfool.blogspot.com/2011/04/daisy-picots-and-maltese-rings.html), where she clearly explain that with the daisy picots, unflipped stitches are made on the thread around your hand, while, in Maltese rings, the unflipped stitches are made on the core thread.

I learnt (reading this page: https://palmettotatters.org/events/TATDAY2004/Teachers/MarkMyers.shtml) that "the daisy picot" is a technique developed by Gale Marshall (I suppose just before 2004, it could be 2003, because I found a reference to this technique in a blog post by Gina Brummet, dated 2003).

Those stitches (they can be double or treble stitches), tatted on the picot, can also be done in a normal way, that is flipped. That technique, I learnt from other tatters, they called it "dsop" (double stitches on picot) by G&R Houtz, in their book from 2009, "Tatting GR-8 Alternate Threads". Unfortunately, I still haven't bought the book, but here it is a link: https://www.gr-8shuttles.com/ATbook.shtml

In my picture, 1,4 and 5 are examples of daisy picots, white thread is the chain thread (second shuttle) and then stitches are unflipped.

Then, in samples 2, 3 and 6, there are daisy picots with flipped stitches.

May I call those tds on picot, in my sample 3, "tsop"? What do you think?

Ciao,
Ninetta