Crocheted Lace Projects

This pattern used to be at Crochet Express, but that link went west, so I have the PDF here. What can I say, I got curious. It was supposed to be done with a #7 hook, but I have two things to say to that: Ha, and ha again. I went nuts trying that, and just decided to do it with a #1 hook. It's loose, but not too loose, and I think it came out really nicely.

The colors on this aren't quite as vivid as they appear in the photos; they are more dusty.

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And here `tis! The much vaunted pineapple doily that I gave to my mom Christmas 1998. This is my first serious thread crochet project, and I really like the way it turned out, although I'm not using a #7 hook again. I bought a #4, a #5, and a #6 at Michaels, and intend to use one of them from now on.

At any rate, I'm really pleased with how this turned out, and so is my mom.

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These are two blue and white doilies that I made for my sister-in-law. I'd wanted to make them with a bit of a Wedgewood color scheme. The first one is the rose doily one incarnation of which you've already seen, and the second is a Cornfield doily from an on-line repository that has since gone west. If you make this, DON'T do a ch-5 between the first few rows of shells and pineapple loops! This thing was terribly difficult to flatten out.

Apologies for the not showing all of them -- I couldn't use the digital camera for these, and had to slap them on the scanner.

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This one is from the Sunburst pattern at the same dead on-line collection as the Cornfield one. Fast, and large enough to be useful, although I think I've hit my limit on pineapple doilies ...

Yet again, too big to fit in scanner, yadda yadda ...

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This one just struck me as pretty -- it's also at the old dead collection, and was listed as a Four Leaf Clover. It worked up fast, and the clover sections are done individually, so you can mix and match colors. I think it'd be pretty with the clovers done in harvest colors, and the lacework around the outside done in beige, hunter green, or royal purple.

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This is after a set of doilies made by my great aunt Irene, the same woman mentioned above who taught me to crochet and made the granny square afghan I list on the yarn page. (They may have been made by my grandmother, her sister, but my mom's not sure, and Aunt Irene is the way to bet.) I've never seen this pattern or anything like it anywhere, and I love it. It works up fast, and is very versatile in that you can make it as big as you want it to be. This one is three pineapples across in the middle and took only a day of rather focused work. The ones that my aunt made are six and seven, and there's no limit. You can make diamonds out of it and make a bedspread. You can make it rectangular and make a jacket. You can make it many, many pineapples across and make a diamond-shaped tablecloth/runner.

I just wish I'd been able to block this thing properly -- the old ones I have are perfectly shaped, and I guess 50+ years of washing and ironing will soften up the fibers to where they will stretch more. This one's a bit wonky.

I was able to write down the pattern (correctly, I hope), and you can find it here.

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Liked this pattern, liked the lavendar thread -- if only I weren't running out of places to put these fripping things! I'm stacking them now!

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This is the first one that I did out of a booklet collection of republished doily patterns by Rita Weiss. I think it's called "Old Fashioned Doilies to Crochet," and you can probably snag it from Amazon.com. It's a beautiful pattern, and it really caught my eye; I didn't initially think I could do it, but the pattern was very well-written. It was supposed to be done in all white, but I wanted to snazz up the colors a bit. I'm not too fond of all white doilies; it's much more interesting to change colors or use variegated, and that helps you finish a project faster.

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This one is for a friend of mine who absolutely adores teals and blues and greens. The color doesn't show up well in this photo, but this doily is made of a heavy bedspread weight cotton and is a beautiful shade of peacock teal.

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I found the Elizabeth Hiddleson booklets at Country Yarns and LOVED the collars. Now, I'm not a lace collar type at ALL, and I don't plan on ever wearing these things. But for some reason, I do love making them. I just ADORE the idea of making something like this that is also clothing. So I made this one and will be attaching it to ... something ... in the future to give to my mom. I'm also working on a square-ish butterfly yoke for her for something else. Dunno what. I'll just hunt up some pretty rayon and make a nightie out of it for her.

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This one was finished some time ago (it's now April 08), possibly over a year. It's a standard Irish rose from purple thread. The next one of this design will most definitely have a yellow Welsh daffodil in the center. :-)

This is a rather versatile idea, though. I've seen bun covers, but never ones that really took the idea where it could go, and I'm planning one that's fairloy ornate out of #30 ecru cotton with deep red Swarovski beads. I can see going even further with a visit to a local gem and jewelry show and a string of freshwater pearls, garnets, or other gems.

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