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I share here what I like and what works for me. If you've been following me, you know that I can change my mind from time to time, and feel free to comment that I'm completely wrong, you may be right. I'm not running a business. I'm not paid and have never received any compensation or facilitation for any review/brand/site here mentioned. In case one day we'll ever meet, I'll be the one offering you a cup of Italian coffee, too.
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Showing posts with label treble. Show all posts
Showing posts with label treble. Show all posts

Tuesday, 6 August 2024

pattern for the rose stud earrings

Unnatural Rose, I would say! This flower grows from the petals towards the center!

The pic below (posted in Fb few days ago) was the first prototype. Then I found a way to make it as if it was a bezel embellishment. This means the pattern can be adapted for brooches or tatted ice drops, any size, just increasing the number of petals and the number of rings tatted for the cabochon (yet to be tried).

I designed two patterns, one for the cabochon size 8mm, the other for the cabochon size 6mm, shown in next pic:

“Unnatural Rose”  - Link to pdf (two patterns) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cwBe5_pU8tglX0E4kOxisH-k_zwAhgmw/view

I tatted the “Unnatural Rose” with 2 shuttles loaded CTM. The patterns have two parts: the Petals, then the Centre. In both patterns I started from the petals. The Petals are thrown/floating rings around a mock ring. Do not cut the thread after the Petals, leave a mock picot and start the Centre, which is the bezel motif that goes around the cabochon.

- 6mm Swarovski 5817 Pearl Cabochon Crystal Light Grey, which I used with metallic Sanbest thread, blue and light blue 3 strands, white and silver 4 strands.

- 8mm Swarovski 5817 Pearl Cabochon Crystal White, which I used with the gold metallic Sanbest thread, 4 strands.

When all the tatting is done, pass a loop of thread through picots in the rings of the Center. Pass the shuttle inside that loop but do not pull yet.

Then you can pick your pin cabochon and do the final step (see pictures 4 and 8). Put the pin through the mock ring of the Petals and position the side with the cabochon under the Centre.

Pull the thread to close the loop and trap the cabochon. Make 2 or 3 knots with the tails and cut them. There’s no need to sew the tails. 

Ciao, Ninetta

Wednesday, 31 July 2024

thanks for the review

I’m really grateful for private sweet messages, positive comments, and public demonstrations of appreciation of my book. Thank you everyone. I am humbled and flattered. My heartfelt thanks go to my lovely friends, who encouraged and helped me, in particular to Karen and Muskaan who translated the book in English and made it possible to bring it to many more tatters than I had ever imagined. 

I almost fainted when I read Anita Barry’s message, in which she informed me of her intention to write a review of my book. Few days after, when I read what she had written, well, I can't find the words, even in my native language, to express my feelings of gratitude. She’s so generous and very kind with my book! She’s a Master Tatter, a member of IOLI and the first ever tatter who completed the IOLI Tatting Proficiency. She also completed the Tatters Across Time Proficiency and now mentors others who participate in the Program. She was a teacher at Palmetto Tat Days for many years.

Anyone who knows me personally knows that I'm not good at self-advertising. So, I am thrilled - and a little shy and trembling - to tell you that Anita sent her review article to:
-    The Online Tatting Class,
-    The International Organization of Lace Inc. (I.O.L.I.),
-    The Ring of Tatters,
-    and to The Tatters Guild of Australia NSW Branch.
I feel honoured that Anita thought that all these important organizations would have been interested in the review of my book.

Also, amazingly enough, she told me the book is being added to the IOLI library! Wow!

You can already read Anita Barry’s review on the TOTC site (link - https://www.theonlinetattingclass.com/georgia-seitz-book-reviews )

I'm particularly delighted that she loved that I “challenge others to explore possibilities”. In her sweet words: “With her simple manner and with great passion Ninetta is “between art and craft”. She begins with vintage lace ideas, adds new techniques, resulting in new modern appearances. What a marvelous inspiration for tatters!” 

Anita’s review is an amazing gift for me, I had never thought of anything like this, and still, I feel I’m not doing anything special, just sharing my passion. As the sentence at the top of this blog says, it's all about my passion and my joy.

In the pic, a design from 2022.

 Ciao, Ninetta

Thursday, 25 July 2024

smiling flowers

I’ve a fascination with 3D flowers tatted with thin thread. A pattern I love is Jeanne Lugert’s rose (I tatted a miniaturized version too - https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2018/01/anonymous.html ).
Lately, while exploring possible designs where I can use treble tatting stitches, I found in my notebook a round motif from 3 years ago, for which I haven’t shared the pattern yet, you can see it here: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2021/06/special-note-for-my-dear-email.html. Looking at it with new eyes, I thought the rings with treble tatting stitches would be good for making petals… Well, tiny petals with my size 80 thread! 

It’s not a brand-new idea and a very simple pattern too! But I like it and it’s going to be my new favourite pattern for emptying shuttles! I’ve already tatted a dozen of them, and I’m happy to share the pattern with you. I hope you like it, and that soon you’ll have your bouquet!

I already have a name for them! Thanks to the Endrucks 1920 Project, The Smiling Lady and I are in constant email contact, and I know for sure that she loves flowers (especially roses). Have you already seen her “E43 3D Generic Flower”? (https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2024/07/so-many.html )
So, I chuckled and for once found the perfect name for the pattern! "Smiling Flowers" - in Muskaan’s honour!

ds = double stitch
tds = treble tatting stitch
fhs = first half stitch
shs = second half stitch
- = picot
vsp = very small picot

Smiling Flowers have two parts: the flower (centre with a bead, and two layers of petals), then the “green” part, which is calyx, stem, and leaves.

CENTRE (pink thread in pics)
I used Drop Miyuki 3,4mm beads. Load the bead in the loop around the hand.
Hide the starting tail under the first stitches.
Ring (6 picots): 2ds, -, 2ds, -, 2ds, -, 1ds, 1 bead under the leg of 1fhs, 1shs, (-, 2ds)x3. Close and do not cut thread.

Here is how I placed the bead:

 

Then, there are two layers of 6 petals each, around the central ring:
 
PETAL
Ring: 1ds,5tds,vsp,1ds. Close.
After each petal, always lock join to the next picot in centre ring. (see Fig.1)


After the first layer of 6 petals (see Fig.2), I repeat another layer of petals on the back of the first layer, and always lock join to underlying picots in the central ring (see Fig.3).


I tatted two layers of petals, so there are 12 petals. Then leave a tail of about 15cm and cut the thread. To finish, from the backside, pass the tail through the bead to move the tail under the centre of the flower (see Fig.4).

CALYX (green thread in pics)
With one shuttle loaded with green thread - unwind from the shuttle a tail of about 15cm.
Ring: 1ds,5tds,vsp,1ds. Repeat 3 times. Do not cut the thread. (see Fig.5)

Make a knot (between starting tail and shuttle thread) and pass the flower tail in the centre of the green rings, as shown in Fig.6.

STEM under the calyx
After the calyx, I encapsulate the two tails (green and pink) in the stem.
Tat a Josephine (or Spiral) chain of 20 fhs.

LEAVES
Ring: 10ds,3fhs,p,3shs,10ds. Close.
In the stem: Encapsulate the two tails with one fhs (see Fig.7 and 8)
Repeat 3 times.

Leaves are 3 rings, note that I tatted one fhs in the stem after each ring

STEM after the leaves
Tat a Josephine (or Spiral) chain of 20 fhs.

FINISH
Form a loop with the two tails and tat 10 unflipped half stitches over all the 4 threads of the folded tails (see Fig.9)

Then, open the loop as it was a ring, and tat 16 unflipped stitches, as in the second side of a split ring (see Fig.10).

Pull the two tails and close the loop like a mock ring. Secure the shuttle thread at the base of the mock ring and cut all tails (see Fig.11 and 12).

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Ideas for using the Smiling Flowers:

- Make wreaths or bunch of flowers for gifts
- They can be earrings, too! Just hang the mock ring to a fishhook and wear them.
- Glue two or three together for brooches or on hair clips for girls.
- Link flowers to chains or lobster clasps, for bracelets, decorations, or trinkets.
- Lanyards. Don’t cut the thread after the flower, tat the stem and the leaves and continue with another flower!
- Edgings. Tat flowers in assorted colours (without the green part) and then tat an edging in green, joining flowers at intervals.

wreath - flowers sewed with invisible sewing thread on the green ribbon wrapped around a cabone ring.

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If you google tiny tatted flowers, there are wondrous pics by Japanese tatters, for example I found flowers tatted by megumi_tatting (https://www.instagram.com/megumi_tatting/  ) and "Atelier Sakamichi" (she writes a tatting blog: http://atsaka.exblog.jp/ ).

I’ve just bought (in Amazon) the Kindle edition of “Tatting Lace Flower Accessories” by Emiko Kitao (2016). If you love tiny flowers, that is a beautiful book for you too! Also, there are patterns for tatted letters, framed in flowering hearts. There are creative ideas and clever use of picots. You can read Leigh’s review here: http://www.somethingunderthebed.com/CURTAIN/REVIEWStat/REVIEWS_ItoL/JPN/Kitao/KITAO5.html  
It’s in Japanese but with clear diagrams and pictures! Ahah! Don’t laugh! When I opened it for the first time I was confused!… My fault! I should have opened it from the last page. In fact, Japanese books read from right to left, the reverse of what I usually do.

(Fingers crossed, I hope I made you smile for the flowers and not because of my English!)

Ciao, Ninetta

Sunday, 12 November 2023

Tatting is a serious matter!

 

Dear readers,
I am deeply thankful to Karen Cabrera and Muskaan, who took the time to respectively translate and proofread for the English edition of the book. They have my gratitude and high respect. They made it possible to bring this book to many more tatters than I had ever imagined, as my humble goal was only to talk to Italian lacemakers. In particular, I owe a lot to Muskaan for her accurate work. She has a talent in teaching, and learning from her and with her has been an honour. In many parts she suggested the right tatting terms and better sentences, contributed valid points and corrected some accidental incoherence coming throughout from my Italian text. Definitely she made it a better book. Many thanks, Muskaan! Now it’s up to the tatters to take their shuttles or needles and enjoy the result of our work!

Book published!  - "Tatting is a serious matter English Edition” – Amazon link:  https://a.co/d/h1iSEXb

I can't thank Karen and Muskaan enough, for being so generous and wonderful friends. Karen was so sweet when she accepted to do the translation, around one year ago. After some months I received her first version, and I’d tell you the true, proofreading my own book has been very difficult for me! But I’m blessed to have another amazing friend! I feel very grateful to Muskaan, for her important role in checking the content. For this book I'm a lot more relaxed than for the Italian edition, now I'm more confident in the content thanks to Muskaan 🌹. During this past year, since Sept 2022, I haven't been able to correct my own errors in the Italian edition, and this is the proof that learning – both tatting and English - is a “serious” process for me, that will never ends!

For a brief presentation of the book’s contents, read also the following posts:  https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2023/05/hurray.html and https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2022/10/treble-happyness.html

Ciao,
Ninetta
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Monday, 1 May 2023

Hurray!!!

Last year was a special year for me, I realized my dream to publish a book I had in the drawer for some years. I am very grateful to everyone who encouraged and supported me, and my sincere thanks also go to the many readers, who positively welcomed the first edition of "Il chiacchierino è una cosa seria". Currently, the first edition is no longer available, because it has been replaced by a second edition. 

"Il chiacchierino è una cosa seria Second edition” – Amazon link:  https://amzn.eu/d/br7ILv8

I am so happy for having had the opportunity to release a new version of the book! The content of the first edition is still there, with minimal corrections (basically misprints), and then there are some pages more, with an appendix in which I describe a new variant of the treble tatting stitch and one unpublished pattern for a small pendant. It’s - again - a version only in Italian.

Writing the book, my first goal was to talk to Italian lacemakers. We hadn't any book containing the history of tatting from an Italian point of view, neither we have the translation of great English books containing historical information about tatting in the world. For example, unfortunately it has never been translated into Italian the Elgiva Nicholls' book: Tatting Techniques & History, nor the Rebecca Jones’: “The Complete Book of Tatting”, and so many others really valuable books. Well, I tried to do my best: I beg your pardon for any inaccuracies, and I can only assure you that I keep on studying.

As a blogger, I chose the English language, hence most of my blog's content is not easy to be read by Italian tatters. Everything here is free, I shared with you almost all the content of the book. The treble tatting stitch is explained here in detail (and it has been blogged by Muskaan too - better than me – she has a talent in teaching!), but it is all in English. Also, other tatters shared videos, like for example Karen Cabrera, but those are in English too.
I hope that my book will help Italian tatters to reproduce the treble tatting stitch and – knowing their creativity – they will be able to design beautiful and never-seen-before tatting patterns. I also learned a lot (and I’m still learning) about how to teach “modern” tatting in Italian.

… And I’ve still a lot to learn about how to present the book --- I’m a shy person and I'm not at ease talking in public. Don’t ask me what I said during the last launch of the book: my mind went foggy!!!

Dear English readers, for an English edition, sorry I kindly ask you to be patient. I’m honoured to have talented friends who are working on it. There aren't words to express my feelings for being so blessed to have amazing friends who are willing to help me.

For a brief presentation of the book’s contents, read also the following post: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2022/10/treble-happyness.html 

I also take the opportunity of this post to show you the Swirling Butterflies doily beautifully tatted by Reiko Akamatsu:

Ciao,
Ninetta


Saturday, 22 October 2022

treble happyness!

Treble tatting is now part of a published book! 


At the moment it is only in Italian, and available on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/4MlEOyX

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UPDATE 30th April 2023 -

Currently, the first edition is no longer available, because it has been replaced by a second edition.

"Il chiacchierino è una cosa seria Second edition” – Amazon link:  https://amzn.eu/d/br7ILv8

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I think the title can be translated like this: "Tatting is a serious matter". That is funny but there's a good reason, because I found an Italian book, from 1941, where tatting is described by this phrase: "they say that is not a serious thing" - I wrote about it in the introduction of the book and also in an old blog post of mine (https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2017/05/are-you-serious.html). 

There are three chapters: the first covers the history of tatting, mainly from an Italian viewpoint. There are many contradictions and stereotypes about tatting, often confused (by non-tatters) with bottonhole stitch or with the "Fiandra a tre paia" bobbin lace. Some people cannot accept needle tatting. Also, just because we usually say that tatting has only 2 stitches, someone thinks that tatting is meagre. Sometimes it is not even classified as Lace! Alessandra Caputo writes in her foreword: "..., if on one hand needle and bobbin lace are indicated as laces with a capital L, on the other hand there are a whole series of laceworks considered "minor", sometimes with a history not less long and prestigious, which from a technical point of view are undoubtedly self-supporting and therefore can be rightly defined as lace." Phew! Thanks Alessandra!! 😊

In the second chapter there is the treble tatting. I improved my drawings for showing how to tat the treble stitch - and there are links to my videos, easily accessible thanks to qrcodes; I've used a free QR Code Generator: http://goqr.me/

The third chapter contains detailed instructions, pictures and diagrams for the Swirling Butterflies doily pattern. Maybe, some of you remember that I've shared here in my blog the first 3 rounds, and few people had tatted it. For example:

Jane McLellan (https://janemactats.blogspot.com/2018/09/butterflies-tethered.html);

Muskaan (https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/search/label/swirling%20butterflies)

You can find my old blogposts about this doily, all posts with label: swirling butterflies 

 
This beauty is a gift for a good friend! Many thanks to Alessandra Caputo (www.merlettoitaliano.it) to help make this book a reality.

And many thanks to Muskaan (for her foreword, and for the many tips and improvements, beyond my requests) and Paola Bevilacqua (https://www.facebook.com/legioiedipaola48), who both were so nice to test the doily pattern.

I've sent a gratitude gift to Muskaan and Paola, too! Muskaan was so nice to blog about hers: https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2022/10/evviva-and-ouch.html

The next is a third version of the doily, that I've already given away to a close friend of mine.


Ciao,
Ninetta

UPDATE: This is a very short video showing the content of the first edition of the book, previously shared in Facebook: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k_VVdUAbvybbSeZJbxn4X59vxaZTrHDd/view 

Thursday, 24 June 2021

special note for my dear email subscribers

My dearest reader,

This post is especially for you that receive and read my posts only via email.

The company that manage the email subscriptions for Chiacchierino Facilissimo blog will discontinue the service in July, so you will no longer receive automatic email updates.

I've carefully read their instructions and saved the list of my subscribers till today, but if I still want you to receive email updates I must search other email subscription service. In Blogger Help they write that they are "unable to recommend any external services at this time." I found a very informative page here: https://www.jenryland.com/best-free-services-for-email-blog-subscriptions/ . Unfortunately, in this moment, it seems that the solution that would be right for my blog exists but they ask me some private sensitive data that I don't want to share (for example my personal snail mail).

My blog is just a diary for my main hobby, that is tatting, and very few of my other crafts/interests. I learned that email feeds had born principally for marketing and to drive traffic to blogs. I'm so happy that many of you have chosen to follow my blog - "just because!" -, I can't thank you enough, I'm moved by all the interest in my invisible tiny tatting. You all are in my heart. I had never imagined that after 7 years and half of blogging I would have had nearly 900,000 visits... and I can't believe that I've been blogging for so long! Also, thanks to you all, you have been my teachers in turn and I've learned a lot during these years! Thank you very much, dear tatters!

For the moment, I'm very very sorry that I can't offer you an alternative for the automatic email subscription, except than inviting you to follow my personal profile in Facebook, where I will share any of my future blog updates.

Little rounded motifs, my own pattern, diameter 3cm, thread is DMC Special Dentelles, size 80. 

Ciao,

Ninetta.


Friday, 16 April 2021

Tuesday, 8 September 2020

irish rose

Nothing new, I think, just all chains and lock joins in between. But petals are tatted with treble tatting stitches and it looks 'a new thing'!

Here are my attempts to tat something lovely around the rose.

The back side is interesting, too:

LEGEND
ds : double tatting stitch
tds : treble tatting stitch
R : ring
Ch: chain
- : picot
vsp : very small picot
SR : Split Ring
FR : floating ring
LJ : lock join
CTM : continuous thread method


Basic pattern for the Irish rose:
With one shuttle and the ball CTM or 2 shuttles CTM.

Round1) The rose starts with a ring: 7 very small picots separated by 1ds, close ring. Reverse work.
Always use a mock picot to climb up to next round.
From now on, it is only chains.
Round2) Ch 1ds; LJ to next vsp (let always a vsp over the LJ); repeat 7 more times.
Round3) Ch 1ds,1tds,vsp,1ds; LJ to next vsp (let always lie the current chain under the previous round); repeat 7 more times.
Round4) Ch 1ds,2tds,vsp,1ds; LJ to next vsp; repeat 7 more times.
Round5) equal to Round4
Round6) equal to Round4
Round7) Ch 1ds,3tds,vsp,1ds; LJ to next vsp; repeat 7 more times.
Round8) Ch 1ds,5tds,vsp,1ds; LJ to next vsp; repeat 7 more times.

The rose can be beautified around as per your personal taste. I think that many different patterns can be found, just keeping the rose in the center. I tatted two versions.

The ecrù rose was tatted with dmc cordonnet size 20 thread.
From round 1 to 8, it is the basic pattern. Then:
Round9) Ch 6ds-6ds; LJ to next vsp; repeat 7 more times.
Round10) Ch 5ds-5ds-5ds; LJ to next vsp; repeat 7 more times.
Round11) Ch 7ds-7ds; LJ to next vsp; 1ds,3tds,vsp,1ds; LJ to next vsp. Repeat all around.

The orange&white rose was tatted with dmc special dentelles size 80 thread.
From round 1 to 6, it is the basic pattern. Then (I added one more round than the basic pattern):
Round7bis) equal to Round4
Round8bis) equal to Round7
Round9bis) equal to Round8
Round10bis) Split ring (to climb up to next round): 6ds/6ds;
*Chain: 6ds-2ds; Trefoil [FR 2ds-3ds-3ds-3ds; FR 3ds, join to last picot of previous FR, 3ds-3ds-3ds; FR 3ds, join to last picot of previous FR, 3ds-3ds-2ds]; Chain: 2ds, join to last picot of previous FR, 6ds.
Ring: 6ds, join to next vsp of previous round, 6ds
Repeat from * all around.

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If you share any of my patterns, please put a link to this blog, don't copy and past pictures. I hope you understand, thank you in advance.

Please refer to the page "Treble Tatting Stitch - Summary" - https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_95.html for any info about treble tatting stitches, thank you.

Ciao,
Ninetta

Tuesday, 25 August 2020

swirling earrings

Thread is Sanbest metallic 4 strands, color number 1565. Pattern is the centre of the "swirling butterflies" doily (you can find the link in the patterns page in the menu bar).


With another background:

Ciao,
Ninetta

Tuesday, 28 July 2020

no mirror, no tiling

Celtic earrings with treble tatting stitches.
What does the title mean? You're right, I should know...
 
Browsing the web - trying to find any instructive site about celtic knots - I've found that Wikipedia has an entry and that at the end of the page there are some very interesting links.

One of those, it is an online celtic knot generator: http://obyx.org/knots.obyx

I filled the form with parameters: (3,2,0,0,no mirror, no tiling), and every time you click the "regenerate" button, you get few different drawings. I chose two of them and tried to transpose to tatting.



Thread is 4 strands Sanbest metallic thread, color numbers 17 and 1565.
If you like them, I can share the pattern. It is true celtic, because I started from celtic drawings, but they can be easily tatted with one shuttle and the ball, the weaving part being only at the end.

It's been very hard sewing ends, it seems that my eyesight is getting worse... I used the camera as it was a magnifying glass! It works wonderfully!
Ciao,
Ninetta
UPDATE: Please refer to the page "Treble Tatting Stitch - Summary" - https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_95.html for any info about treble tatting stitches, thank you.

Tuesday, 30 June 2020

We call them nuts

I had a crazy idea in mind and started a little motif with my usual size 80 thread, but soon I realised that I'd had to switch to a bigger size! You know that I love tiny threads but those little nuts are quite indistinguishable from other elements, if you don't have a magnifying glass! They are those little bumps in the last round of the wheel  in the background in next picture.

I googled for the English name of that pile of stitches that are done in crochet, and I found that what in Italian we call "nocciolina", that is little nut (it doesn't mean the peanut in this case), it is known in English as popcorn stitch. After the title, if you were thinking of another kind of "nuts" in this blog, maybe you can be right too! 😂
So, my name for that is "tatting nuts" because I like nuts more than popcorn!

The tatted nut starts with a normal sized picot, in next pic I compared it with a treble tatting stitch that needs a very small picot (or a bare thread) to start with.
I used Cebelia DMC size 10 thread, so with this size I suggest that the very small picot would be the 1/8"  and the normal sized the 1/4" step.

Then, the tatted nut is:
- 1 treble tatting stitch (abbr. tds), followed by
- 3 second half of the treble tatting stitch

The second half of the tds starts just after the first treble tatting stitch, that is: 
Laying the picot across the ball thread, pull up a loop of thread through the same picot used to tat the first tds.
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.
Repeat the second half of the tds for 3 times, then, do not leave any space and tat at least one double stitch after the nut to let it pile up:
I like that new element and it can give more possibilities to create new designs 😉👍

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Sometimes I feel that the treble tatting stitch hasn't been well accepted by all tatters yet, but there are little episodes that make my day, for example the other day one of my aunts (that really dislike tatting because it is simple - in her own words - and highly repetitive) has looked with admiration one of my edging featuring tds. 
Another great support for me is one comment I had some time ago, that I copy here again.

craftie sylvie left that comment on my post "tatting movements and stitches":

"I believe that knitting and crochet have remained so popular because they have kept evolving and re-inventing themselves. I first heard about tatting about 13 years ago; I worked on and off for several years, and became more serious about it some 4 years ago. I think the reason for that renewed interest in me was the fact that there are many techniques still unknown to me, and the idea that creative tatters keep on inventing others. I just LOVE learning new techniques! Knitting is just two sticks around which we wrap yarn, crochet is just a hook around which we wrap yarn, but I've been a knitter and a crocheter for 45 years and I'm still passionate about knitting and crochet because there are still new "things" to do. PLEASE, just go on creating. I believe creative designers are the reason why tatting is not lost, and I'm very grateful for that 😀💚💜 "

Thank you very much, Sylvie, re-reading your words I don't feel I'm a nut anymore 💕 😘!!!

Please refer to the page "Treble Tatting Stitch - Summary" - https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_95.html for any info about treble tatting stitches, thank you.

Ciao,
Ninetta 

Thank you very much for all your nice comments.

Ciao
Ninetta