leaning towers

err, leaning trebles to be accurate!

An omission that led to a variation of the treble/tds.

Here’s the story –

Ninetta is starting a tat-along for her latest piece with those swirls and butterflies. I chose my colour palate and started the round with spiral rings in blue.

Then it hit me and I went to check on my earlier trial. Remember this pink one where the spiral rings are in tds (treble tatting), supposedly?

Well, turns out I made an error causing the stitch to slant! Compare it with the correct formation (blue). In both versions, the rings have identical stitch count.

In the pink, I inadvertently skipped steps 4 & 5, passing the shuttle directly through the first loop itself as in step #6. Refer to pictorial here. 

Wishing to continue with the “crochet saga” (tongue-firmly-in-cheek), 

Ninetta has christened it the half treble.

No wonder it tatted up so much quicker ;-P And no wonder I was having a tough time getting the stitch to lie stand straight (which it still didn't!).

It is visually distinct (reminds me even more of her vapor picot), appears denser, with the stitch slanting and a wavy outline.

More tds variations are described here

Back to the tat-along... the shuttle was running out of blue thread on the 13^th ring. This method worked splendidly again – using a scmr. With no bare thread between rings, it was easy to tat over the tails on opposite side as I went along – nothing to sew later. So far it is still a braid and needs to be joined back to first ring. With pearls/beads, it would make a gorgeous bracelet or choker!  Waiting for the next rounds to show up on Ninetta’s blog, shuttles on the go :-)

Click on the treble tatting label for all my tds posts.