Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Sunburst Doily


Sunburst Doily
American Thread Co Star Doily Book # 145
Doily is 9" in diameter



Materials:
The Famous "Star" Spangled Mercerized Crochet Cotton Article 40
1 ball each Gold & Silver Spangled, Aqua Spangled and Purples and Silver Spangle

The famous "Puritan" Mercerized crochet cotton article 40,
1 ball each white, turquoise and shaded purples or colors of your choice. You can also use size 10 crochet thread

Doily 7 1/2"

Steel crochet hook #7

With gold or white chain 6, join to form a ring, ch 7, treble crochet (trc) in ring, *ch 3, trc in ring, repeat from * 9x, ch 3, join in 4th stitch of ch.

Rd 2 sl st to loop of shell, ch 3, 1 dc, ch 3, 2dc in same loop, ch 2, dc in next loop, ch 2, * 2dc, ch 3, 2 dc in next loop, (shell), ch 2, dc in next loop, ch 2, repeat from * all around, join in 3rd st of ch.

Rd 3 sl st to loop of shell, ch 3, 1 dc, ch 3, 2 dc in same loop, ch 3, skip the next loop, 1 dc, ch1, 1dc in next dc, ch 3, * shell in next shell, ch 3, skip the next loop, 1 dc, ch 1, 1dc in next dc, ch 3, repeat from * all around, join in 3rd st of ch.

Rd 4 sl st to loop of shell, ch 3, 1 dc, ch 3, 2dc in same loop, ch4, skip the next loop, dc in next dc, ch1, dc in next ch1 sp, ch 1, dc in next dc, ch 4, * shell in next shell, ch4, skip the next loop, dc in next dc, ch 1, dc in next ch 1 sp, ch 1, dc in next dc, ch 4 , repeat from * all around, join in 3rd st of ch.

Rd 5 sl st to loop of shell, ch 3, 1 dc, ch 3, 2 dc in same loop, * ch 4, skip the next loop, dc in next dc, ch 1, dc in next ch sp, ch 1, dc in next dc, ch 1, dc in next ch 1 sp, ch1, dc in next dc, ch 4 shell in next shell, repeat from * all around ending to correspond, join in 3rd of ch.

Rd 6 sl st to center of loop of shell, * ch 12, single crochet in next loop, ch 12, skip next 2 dc, sc in next dc, ch 12, skip next 2 dc, sc in next loop, ch 12, sc in loop of next shell, repeat from * all around ending to correspond, join in last sl st.

Rd 7 ch1 and work 17 sc over each loop, join in n1st sc.

Rd 8 ch 1, working in back loops of last row, work 1 sc in each of the next 7sc, 3sc in next sc, 1 sc in each of the next 7sc, * skip next 2sc, 1 sc in each of the next 7sc, 3 sc in next sc, 1 sc in each of the next 7sc, repeat from *all around, join in lst sc.

Repeat the last round for the remainder of the doily, working 2 more rounds in gold or white, 4 rounds in aqua or turquoise and 4 rounds in purple and sliver or shaded purples.


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