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December 30th, 2010 at 1:30 am
If it is important to you and you want to keep it for years, don’t starch it. Over time the chemicals will begin to rot it. I would suggest putting it between 2 panes of glass. If you don’t want to do this put it in a shadow box. Tack the doily to a piece of fabric with a couple of stiches and staple the MATERIAL to the shadow box.
December 30th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
Google Niebling patterns. There are several of his patterns available on the web. They can, however, be very complex knitting.
December 31st, 2010 at 1:12 am
These hats are not very common these days (thread crochet, that is). You might try looking for antique or vintage patterns. The antique pattern library (www.antiquepatternlibrary.org) has a large number of old needlework books for you to browse.I found a nice Irish Crochet baby cap on p.23 of this book:(http://www.antiquepatterns.dreamhosters.com/TaylorPrisIrish2.pdf)Or, you can look for a round doily pattern to use for the back of the cap and improvise to make the sides and top as a flat rectangle in a nice pattern, with a bit of ruffle for the front edge. Use the hat you bought as a model. This would only be possible if you felt comfortable designing your own.
December 31st, 2010 at 1:23 pm
http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com/directory/http://home.inreach.com/marthac/links.htmlhttp://suzies-yarnie-stuff.blogspot.com/Here are a few links. there are tons of fun things to do with crochet. try some wrist warmers, funky, cute, and easy.how about a simple crochet bag, which you can spice up with different yarns, or maybe embellishments.Scarves, easy and yet very cute.Hats, great gifts.Enjoy!
January 1st, 2011 at 1:48 am
ck out ebay, i see lots of crochet items on there all the time….
January 1st, 2011 at 1:28 pm
That’s a hard question to answer. I would say it all depends on the size, quality of materials you used, your skill, etc. To get a good idea I would try searching for similar items on etsy.com. It’s a site dedicated to selling handmade and vintage things. I’ve sold a few things there and bought a lot of things from the site and have always had good luck. It would be a good starting point anyway.Hope this helps.
January 2nd, 2011 at 1:42 am
1. A standard pattern will tell you how many turning chains to make, based on which stitch is coming next. So if the pattern says 4 turning chains, you do 4. The reason for telling you that ch 3 counts as the first dc is so that when the instructions say something like “sc in the first dc” you will dip into the last chain of that ch-3 instead of skipping over the chains and dipping into the first “true” dc.Your pattern is correctly marked in the standard way. Those rows that do not start with turning chains as the first item start with a slip stitch. The purpose of the slip stitch is to move you forward one or more stitches around the doily so that when you begin the new stitch repeat it can start at the beginning of the repeat. Let’s suppose you were doing a snowflake and you end one row at the tip of an arm, but the next row calls for a chain loop to fling out across the tip of that arm without actually making contact with it. It would be necessary for you to sl st to the next point where the yarn comes in to connect to the previous row and start there because you can’t start in mid air.2. Here are the standard turning chains, based on the stitch they represent:ch 1 for scch 2 for hdcch 3 for dcch 4 for trYou would typically ch 3 for a dc, but in this case what is called for is a faux dc followed by a ch 1. Hence you do the three for the faux dc plus one for the ch 1, or 4 chs total.3. The second instruction you mentioned will only come at the end of a round. They are modifying the instruction to account for the faux dc at the beginning of the round. Had this been a real dc instead of a faux dc, you would have done a sl st into the top of the dc. But it is a faux dc, so you have to pretend the third chain in it is the top of the dc and use that instead.The first instruction, the one in [] is the repeated part that goes all the way around up to the last repeat, which is slightly different because of starting with a faux dc.4. Let’s say you come out of the previous round in a third ch of a faux dc. Will call that ch “Ralph.” Now you will ch-1 and then sc back in Ralph, not into the ch you just made. What they are doing here is making a place for you to connect when you finish the round. It isn’t strictly necessary to do it this way, but it does make it easier to do the connection and does make that connection nearly invisible, whereas without that extra little ch 1 and sc the connection would be more obvious.You go girl! I think it is fabulous that you are trying your hand at doilies. You’ve chosen a very pretty and classic pattern (pineapples). You clearly understand the basics of reading a crochet pattern and all of your questions are arising from the infamous faux stitch made out of turning chains. It’s actually all the same question so it’s really only one thing that has you puzzled (how to use a faux stitch starting a round). Don’t let it deter you. It will make more sense as you proceed, I promise. Just remember that those turning chains, however many there are, are standing in for another stitch. Use the chart I gave to see how many chs are standing in for each regular stitch and I think that will help you a lot in keeping track of which faux stitch you are dealing with at the start of each round.— edited to add —No, you don’t have to do the edging. A pattern is only a suggestion. Your crocheting is your own. You are free to make any changes you choose to make it just how you want it to be. But all they’re only asking you to do is reconnect the same thread you’ve been using all along, just at a new point to start the edging. When they say “cotton,” they only mean the cotton thread you started out with. They could have said “thread” but this is actually a common way for them to talk about the thread, using “cotton” and “thread” interchangeably. If you did it in yarn, just use the same yarn. Just look at it when you get to that point and decide whether you like it better as it is, or with that last row shown in the photograph and make your decision then.
January 2nd, 2011 at 1:25 pm
The translation for this pattern is not a good one. You need to use 4 double pointed needles to start the doily. Cast on 6 stitches. Then divide the stitches so that you have 2 stitches on each of 3 dpns. This is the only way you can join to form a circle. You will be knitting “in the round”. The “Rows” in the pattern should be changed to “Rounds”. When you have so many stitches on your dpns that you are worried they might fall off the end, transfer all of the stitches to a circular needle and continue working the pattern. It’s a lovely doily.