Old Rose - A Doily Copycat Pattern

Doily Hunting

My grandmother loved making doilies and in her last couple of years alive she started complaining about the lack of doily patterns being produces in her magazines. Last Tuesday I met up with my Danish friend who likes buying doilies from second hand shops. I once copied a doily before I sent to her so I knew it wasn't a silly idea, as I knew she has a few at home I asked her if she could bring a few with her - she brought a whole box full! So there were were standing at the back of her car boot and going trough the whole box of doilies! These are the ones I came back home with... (sorry for rubbish photo, taken late at night)

The one I'll be showing you this time is the top left one. Doily patterns usually have descriptive names of their styles so the top left we are calling Old Rose. I didn't take masses of photos but I have written down each step.

Basic crochet abbreviations

I still forget what these letter combinations mean so if you are in doubt look them up on a search machine and any videos you can find are great to watch too :)

• Ch - Chain
• Sl st - Slip stitch
• sc - single crochet
• dc - double crochet
• ( ) - repeat from to 

Old Rose

Start off by ch 10, join with the 10th chain from the needle

Lap 1: 3 ch, 2dc 1ch (3dc 1ch)x4 join with sl st to 1st dc (the one made out of 3 chains)

Lap 2: 3 sl st to the middle of first chain gap, 3ch 1dc 2ch 2dc (2ds 2ch 2ds)x7 finish with sl st

Lap 3: 2 sl st 3ch 2dc 2ch 3dc (3dc 2ch 3dc)x7 finish with sl st

Lap 4: 3 sl st 3ch 2dc 7ch 3dc 4ch (3dc 7ch 3dc 4ch)x7 finish with sl st

Lap 5: 3 sl st 3ch 2dc 3ch 3dc 2ch 1sc (2ch 3dc 3ch 3dc 2ch 1sc)x7 finish with sl st

Lap 6: 3 sl st 3ch 2dc 3ch 3dc 4ch 1sc (4ch 3dc 3ch 3dc 4ch 1sc)x7 finish with sl st

Lap 7: 3 sl st 3ch 2dc 3ch 3dc 6ch 1sc (6ch 3dc 3ch 3dc 6ch 1sc)x7 finish with sl st

Lap 8: 3 sl st 3ch 2dc 3ch 3dc 8ch 1sc (8ch 3dc 3ch 3dc 8ch 1sc)x7 finish with sl st

Lap 9: sc all the way around. 1sc between the first two dc bars on previous row, 2 sc between the following two, 5 sc at the peak of each star, 2sc in next gap 1 sc in following, 9sc around each 8ch on previous row, join with sl st

Lap 10: start with chaining 5, join with a s st 4th chain from the hook, 1ch 1sl st into the previous round (make sure to skip two of the sc from previous round) each peak will get 9 little picots 4 down each side and one on each top.

Once fastening off your threads, press your finished doily lightly under a damp cloth and low temperature on iron.

Finished!

This is my finished doily compared to the original one. Mine is slightly smaller but there is a number of factors that play into this - the thread size, needle size and how loosely you crochet.

Happy crafting everyone :)


Ps I'd love to know which of the doilies you'd like to get the pattern of next.