Irish Rose Doily !!!

Hello Everyone!!

Today i am on cloud nine!! After 5 long months i have completed this rose doily finally. Really happy with the outcome. The roses were done and they were sleeping for a good amount of time. And one fine day i woke them up and attached them to the center piece. Ahh.. and then again they were resting for days..  i actually made some mistakes when tried the first leaf and then as im not happy with the outcome of it lost the interest to do the other leaves. 

But finally the time has come for the roses to come alive on the blog. A couple of days back tried again with the leaf and voila it came out perfect! And then no more procastinating.. all the remaining 9 leaves were also done and attached.

Now i am feeling i have to make more of these.. in different colors.. may be white, yellow or orange.. !!

Tried to take in many different backgrounds.. White, then yellow.. but nothing can replace a perfect black background.

I was first inspired by the rose doily by Sangeetha from Crochetkari. It was perfect and i could not take my eyes off. Then came across this blue roses from DIAPER MUM   . And now i have my own bunch or roses !!! :) :)

The pattern is from HERE.. crisp and clearr..  I used Anchor Knitting Cotton thread and size 1.6 mm hook. Could have used a little bigger than this. probably 2 mm but i lost it somewhere :(

And the best part is i am on my maternity leaves and enjoying/utilizing plenty of time in crocheting !  Thats where i am actually digging out the pending and WIPs and trying to completing it. Not sure whats next.. There are a couple more WIPs waiting for the ordered yarns to arrive to complete them. But only 8 more weeks to go for the baby to arrive and i am sure i wont care to reach my hook after that. :)

 So meet you all with those in the next post. 

Happy hooking and take care. 

With Love,

Pavi

Purple Pineapple Doily !!!

My Doily No.3

After making some doilies with Anchor Knitting cotton i moved on to more finer thread and tried my hands with Size 20 Anchor Crochet Cotton Thread in this beautiful purple.

Despite being naive in crocheting doilies i am happy and satisfied with the outcome of this size 20 thread. After all if not now then when would i work with thinner thread.. i know my eyes wont support me after some years to work with this thread.. im already straining them with almost 10 hours of computer screen, 2 hours of TV screen :(

 

 

I could still remember how i struggled and felt the pain in making my first ever doily. Though it was smaller in size with considerably fewer rows, i made mistakes at many places and ended up frogging many rows.. But now i feel good and would say making doily is definitely not rocket science.

 

 

 

 

Hubby asks (orders) me to wind up when im busy crocheting in the late nights with red watery eyes and suggest me not to spoil eyes when i tell him i ll just finish this row before sleep. Thats the addiction with doilies.. you always feel and have the urge to complete one more row always even if it can be done the next day. :)

 

 

 

 

I love those pineapples growing row by row.. Pine doilies are very traditional ones but  they are really adorable when they are done.. I had a second thought when i took this pattern which was waiting for me in the queue for quite a long time.. It was big..and with fine thread now.. whatif i make mistakes and it  doesnt turn up well.. i almost shed tears when i end up frogging.. its literally waste of time and energy.

But after having a look at NINU's DOILY done with the same pattern, i must say my confidence boosted up in starting this.. I even used her pictures for reference when i got some doubts in few rows..

 

 

I never tried with blocking doilies before.. the maximum i would do is just stretch them on bed and pin them using thumb pins.

But this time i did a blocking too with starch and the doily looked perfect (for me).I started it of planning to do it in a single color but felt it had a litle boring look and made the last two rows with bright yellow.. It really made a nice border..

 

 

 

 

 

And as said in my previous post.. the rose doily is in progress.. all roses are done and joined with the centerpiece too.,. i feel the most difficult part is making those leaves :( .Hope to  make rose doily my next post.. Till then everyone take care and happy hooking!!

 

With Love

Pavi

Rainbow Doily !!!

Hello People...

 

I am here this time with this rainbow doily.. yes.. i started of with the new threads from my stash..

 

This is officially my Doily No.2 (actually its third.. my second one is lying half done as i ran out of thread). 

 

I have made this same pattern before with yarn.. what you call it as a Granny Mandala.. but i didnt have all those beautiful colours that time.. and it turned quite bigger with a 2.5 ft in diameter..

 

So this time  i wanted the same effect with thread and to bring it out as a colorful doily.. it turned out nice but i was kind of missing something in this.. yes,, its the bright orange and violet color threads missing.. anyways im happy with it.. :)

 

The pattern is from HERE and yes its indeed an easy pattern and just increase your rounds with your fav colors..

 

Here you go , with the rainbow emerging with each and every color..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And after doing a picot edging... here it is..

And here is my old granny mandala with the brandless yarn made more than an year ago..  I just mixed up all the colors i had that time..

 And guess whats my WIP... i started of with the ROSE DOILY.. and the roses are turning out beautiful.. it takes time but worth the time you spend on it..  I am waiting for it to complete and share with you all..

till then wish everyone a happy hooking and take care.,.

With Love,
Pavi

My First Doily!

Hello All...

First time i tried my hands with thread crochet..very very tedious i must say.. hats off to all those doily (Ornamental Mat) lovers out there.. my eyes and fingers are gone for a toss really..

I wonder how Linda has been working on doilies for all these years.. You can get a lot of wonderful patterns from here (Linda's Crochet)

And after a really hard work straining my eyes this is what i achieved at..Pretty one.. Im really proud of my result!!

The original patterns was taken from Priscilla's Crochet. And all beginners who want to try this please visit her page.. she has lot of patterns easy for a beginner to try out.

I used anchor Knitting Cotton thread.. and a 1.25mm hook.Thanks to Sangeetha of Crochetkari for suggesting me the source to get this crochet thread..

 

 

I spent the last weekend roaming the streets of Bangalore Market to get some crochet supplies.. threads etc.. But Pony Online Craft Store made my work easy with a prompt delivery of all i needed..

Here is the doily in progress.. with the picot edging only half done..

And a closer look of it...

 

 

 

 

 

See you all with my next post.. there are hell lot of other patterns waiting for me in the queue to crochet them.. Wish i get more time to crochet daily.. !!

With Love,
Pavi