How to tat a tds in a split chain

Split chains are very useful when you need to climb out in a pattern, without cutting the thread, I usually use them in my tatting.

As a reference for how to tat a split chains with double stitches, there are many resources online.

Muskaan collected a list of useful links in her page "Tatting Resources". Also, there are videos by Karen Cabrera, Frivole, and in the YouTube channel of the Georgia Seitz Online Beginning Shuttle Tatting Class.

So, I've been seeking a way to tat the treble tatting stitch in split chains, too.

I had to waive the complete double stitch within the treble, in fact there is only a first half stitch in the first "leg", but that little exception lets the stitch appearing, anyway.

(That little change in making the tds makes me wonder if the tds could have been alternatively tatted  in this way!)

Here I'm using a metal ring, but it is the same concept of the split chain, if you substitute the ring with the bare thread. I used the ring for the sake of clarity, since I've used a very thick thread, thickness is - maybe - 3mm.

1. Let a loop of thread drop behind the ring. Bring the shuttle to the front and then into the loop.
2. Pull the loop behind the ring and upwards, tighten it but leave a very short picot.
3. Laying the picot across the ball thread and pull up a loop of thread through the picot.
4. Let this loop opened

That was the first "leg" of the stitch.

5. Bring the shuttle to the back of the ring
6. Pass the shuttle behind into the loop thus formed, from back to front
7. Repeat, passing the shuttle into the loop for a total of 3 times
8. Pass the shuttle into the first loop (that one in pic 4.)

That was the second "leg".
But now the thread needs to be settled in:

9. and 10. Close the first loop (that one in pic 4) pulling the thread between the two "legs"
11. Pull the shuttle to coil the second "leg".

In pic 12 there is the stitch finished.

I hope to have a pattern ready to be shared next week, with a practical example.

Ciao,
Ninetta