Doily of the Week #25: Getting Ready for 4th of July

I’ve seen so many beautiful patriotic doilies around the blogland. And with the Independence Day approaching, I wanted to make one for our celebration table. Unfortunately, I was not able to find cotton crochet thread in dark blue.

So I had an idea of decorating our table with small red and white doilies and adding some other accents in dark blue. I already have a few small doilies in white, but I had to make one in red.

I used pearl cotton for this doily, and it came out a bit bigger than ten inches in diameter. This doily had only 12 rounds and was very easy to make. This would be a perfect doily project for beginner crocheters.

Free Vintage Pattern 

The pattern is from A Book of Crochet, Book # 52, 1935

Ch 10, join with sl st. 1st rnd: Ch 3, 21 d c in ring. Join with sl st in 3rd ch of ch-3. 2nd rnd: Ch 4, 1 d c in each d c of previous rnd with ch-1 between. Join with sl st in 3rd ch of ch-4. 3rd rnd: Ch 5, 1 d c in each d c of previous rnd with ch-2 between. Join with sl st in 3rd ch of ch-5. 4th rnd: Ch 6, 1 d c in each d c of previous rnd with ch-3 between. Join with sl st in 3rd ch of ch-6.

5th rnd: Ch 7, 1 d c in each d c of previous rnd with ch 4 between. Join with sl st in 3rd ch of ch-7. 6th rnd: Ch 8, 1 d c in each d c of previous rnd with ch-5 between. Join with sl st in 3rd ch of ch-8. 7th rnd: Ch 3, 6 d c in each sp and 1 d c in each d c of previous rnd. Join with sl st in 3rd st of ch-3 first made. 8th rnd: Ch 5 * skip 2 d c, 1 d c in 3rd d c, ch 2, repeat from * for entire rnd. Join with sl st in 3rd ch of ch-3.

9th rnd: Ch 3 * 2 d c in ch-2, 1 d c in d c of previous rnd, repeat from *. Join with sl st. 10th rnd: Ch 6, 1 d c in same st from which ch-6 started * ch 5, skip 5 d c, 1 d c in 6th d c, ch 3, 1 d c in same st, repeat from * to end of rnd. Join in 3rd st of ch-6. 11th rnd: Ch 6, 1 d c in 1st ch-3 loop, * ch 6, skip ch-5 loop and make 1 d c in next ch-3 loop. Ch 3, 1 d c in same loop. Repeat from * to end of rnd. Join with sl st in 3rd st of ch-6 made.

12th rnd: Ch 6, * 1 d c in same loop, ch 3, 1 s c in center ch of ch-5 of 10th rnd having the ch-6 of 11th rnd caught by this s c, ch 3, 1 d c in next ch-3 loop ch 3. Repeat from * to end of rnd. Join with sl st in 3rd ch of ch-6 made.

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