TREBLE TATTING STITCH - SUMMARY

Abbreviation: "tds = treble tatting stitch"

• 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 through the loop thus formed. Don't tighten it, yet.
• Hold a loop of the core thread in the ring finger, then pass the shuttle from back to front, in space between core thread and loop, 3 times.
• Tighten the ball thread and don't let the core thread slip out of place.
• Then, pull the core thread.

Videos in YouTube:
For shuttle tatting: https://youtu.be/ra0NnlqR0oA
For needle tatting: https://youtu.be/vxl1ZzPLrZg

IN WRITTEN PATTERNS:
Example:
ds = double stitch
tds = treble tatting stitch
vsp = very small picot
Ring: 1ds, 7tds, vsp, 1ds, close ring.

IN DIAGRAMS:

HIDDEN PICOTS:
hidden picot = a very small picot hidden between and within each tds as part of the structure.

TREBLE JOINS: “TJ = treble join”
For how to join a tds to a previous element, there are 2 methods, refer to this post by Muskaan: https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2018/07/multiples.html

IMPORTANT:
Not every pattern/element has 1ds before the first tds. It depends on the pattern, refer to this post:
https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2019/02/jumping-in-place-starting-without-very.html
Patterns/elements don't have always another "vsp and 1ds" after the last treble. It depends on the pattern.

TATTING WITH BEADS:
https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2018/07/treble-tatting-and-beads-part-vi.html

DIRECT or REVERSE TATTING:
On the second side of split ring: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2018/08/reverse-treble-tatting-video-tds-on.html
Direct tatting: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2018/08/tds-in-direct-tatting-or-reverse-treble.html

MOCK TDS:
(how to climb out in rounds) video in YouTube: https://youtu.be/yRW-3qQGS_g

IN SPLIT CHAINS:
Video in YouTube (Bridging): https://youtu.be/bsVx0tDXCAw
Around a metal ring: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2019/03/how-to-tat-tds-in-split-chain.html

A TDS CAN BE SUBSTITUTED FOR A DS ANYWHERE, IN ANY TECHNIQUE OR EFFECT. 


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SECOND PAGE: Other variations and Design's Elements

OTHER VARIATIONS:

half treble and padded treble: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2018/09/siblings-by-chance-friends-by-choice.html

more than 3 wraps: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2018/07/crescendo-part-v-and-other-wips.html (see also Muskaan's https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2018/07/multiples.html)
NOTATION for Graduated or Variable Treble Tat Stitch (tds) [Muskaan’s proposal]: https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2020/05/double-trouble-motif.html

DESIGN'S ELEMENTS:

pearl tatting: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2018/10/up-upper-and-down.html 
https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2018/10/over-under-treble-tatting.html

maltese rings tatting: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2018/10/treble-tatting-wrapped-around-your.html

daisy picots: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2019/01/bit-by-bit.html

wide picots combined with tds: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-wide-choice.html

half closed rings: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2019/02/half-closed-tatted-rings-with-treble.html

dimpled rings: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2018/11/treble-tatting-in-hearts.html

spiral rings: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2018/08/spiral-rings-with-treble-tatting.html

cabochon: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2018/07/cabochon-with-tds-part-iv.html

and https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2020/06/pattern-for-tiffany-bezel.html

block tatting: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-right-angle-trebles-and-block.html

curled rings: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2019/09/trebles-in-curled-rings-mad-mad.html

tatting nuts: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2020/06/we-call-them-nuts.html

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The pdf version of only the first page is available, here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LVFAASQpj8H54fhavEEWgokMQ8gAuiHM/view?usp=sharing

First page last update: 13 March 2019

The pdf version for only the second page is available, too:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gWTXXL6TI-Z4y5bMkNKrT6R978vOZdUh/view?usp=sharing

Second page last update: 22 August 2020

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why treble is a stitch: http://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2019/01/tatting-movements-and-stitches.html
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All posts with label " treble"
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My very first post about treble tatting stitch is here: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2018/06/treble-tatting.html

Why I chose the term "treble": I chose the term "treble" because it is the closest term to my Italian "punto alto". The "ds" is the traditional stitch, then tds is the treble ds. Simple to memorise. https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2019/02/jumping-in-place-starting-without-very.html

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An article by Georgia Seitz: https://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art305427.asp

Muskaan's tutorial on "dissecting the tds" (she has many tutorials and patterns for tds): https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2018/07/dissecting-tds.html

Muskaan's visual comparision between treble tatting and crocheted treble: https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2022/10/tds-or-htr.html

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I taught tds at the First Italian Tatting Meeting, Hotel Crown in Rimini, Italy, May 17-19, 2019

Douglas Hill (Finger Lakes Tatters) taught tds at the Finger Lake Tatting Conference, April 5-7, 2019.

Kaye Judt taught tds at Tatting Corner Tat Days, July 11-13, 2019 (she also wrote a book containing a pattern with tds: "More O' This and Tat")

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Patterns:
Please refer to the page: Patterns (https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/p/patterns.html)
The acronym TDS is used to indicate that the pattern has treble tatting stitches. 

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UPDATE September 2022:  Treble tatting is now part of a published book!

Update April 2023: Italian second Edition Amazon link - https://amzn.eu/d/br7ILv8 

There are three chapters: the first covers the history of tatting, mainly from an Italian viewpoint; in the second chapter there is the treble tatting (I have improved my drawings for showing how to tat the treble stitch - and there are links to my videos, easily accessible thanks to qrcodes); the third chapter contains detailed instructions, pictures and diagrams for the Swirling Butterflies doily pattern.

Many thanks to Alesandra Caputo (www.merlettoitaliano.it) to help make this book a reality. 

And many thanks to Muskaan (for the many tips and improvements, beyond my requests - https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/) and Paola Bevilacqua (https://www.facebook.com/legioiedipaola48), who both tested the doily pattern.

==> UPDATE DEC 2023: ===>

"Tatting is a serious matter" - English edition – Amazon link:  https://a.co/d/h1iSEXb

Ciao,
Ninetta