This runner, called the Briar Rose Table Runner Pattern #7605, took a second place ribbon at the 2021 Indiana State Fair. The pattern can be found here: Click here for free pattern.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
DIAMONDS IN THE ROUND
Diamonds in the Round *(updated 3-3-21)
I love the popcorn stitch. I love the pillowy look it lends to projects.
I love the bpdc (Back Post Double Crochet) because of the tiny wall it makes, as if to frame the section of work. I also incorporated a bpsc (back post single crochet) on the outer trim.
I put four popcorn stitches together to form a diamond "round". Before I started adding the ch3 loops, I thought it looked like a medallion.
This is a fairly simple design, but can be made bigger just by adding more loops.
Pattern is also published on Ravelry.com
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/diamonds-in-the-round-3
Crochet thread: Size 10, approx 250 yards.
Hook: Size 7 (1.65mm)
metal crochet hook
Size: Approximately 10”
across
Special
Stitches:
Popcorn
Stitch: (PC)
Work 5 double crochet
(dc) stitches in the same stitch. Drop
the loop from your hook. Insert your hook from front to back under the top 2
loops of the first double crochet of the group. Grab the dropped loop with your
hook and pull it through the stitch.
Bpdc – Back
Post Double Crochet: Yarn over the hook,
inwert hook from back of stitch to front (around the post) to back of stitch;
yarn over and pull up 1 loop (3 loops on hook); YO and pull through 2 loops; YO
and pull through remaining 2 loops on hook.
Bpsc – Back Post Single Crochet: Same as bpdc except make sc instead of dc.
1. Ch4; join with sl st
2. Ch2;
11dc in ring (12 total dc)
3. Ch2;
2dc in each dc around (24)
4. sc
in join; *(Ch3, sk dc, sc in next dc) around.
To join last loop, ch1, dc in orig sc. (12 loops)
5. sc in loop; *(ch4; sc in next loop) around. To join last loop, ch1, dc in orig sc. (12
loops)
6. sc in loop; Ch4; *(sc in next loop; ch4)
around. To join, sl st in base of first
ch4. (12 loops)
7. Sl
st in next loop; ch2; 4dc in loop; dc in sc; *(5dc in next loop; dc in sc)
around. Join with sl st to top of beg ch2. (72dc)
8. Ch1; bpdc around same post as join;
bpdc in next 5 dc; ch1; *(bpdc in next 6dc; ch1); repeat around; join with
sl st
to top of beg bpdc. (72dc; 6 ch1 sp)
9. Sl
st in next dc; ch2; dc in next 3dc; ch1; *(sk dc; PC in ch1 sp; ch1; sk dc; dc
in next 4dc; ch1; PC in ch1 sp; ch1); repeat around. Join with sl st to top of beg ch2.
10. Sl st into next dc; Ch2; dc in
next dc; [ch1; PC in ch1 sp;] twice; ch1; *(sk dc; dc in next 2dc; [ch1; PC in
ch1 sp;] twice; ch1). Repeat around; join with sl st to top of beg ch2.
11. Ch2; dc in next dc; 2dc in ch1 sp; ch1; PC in ch1 sp; ch1; 2dc in ch1 sp; *(dc in next 2dc; 2dc in ch1 sp; ch1; PC in ch1 sp; ch1; 2dc in ch1 [sp). Repeat around. Join with sl st to top of beg ch2.
12. Ch2; dc in
next 3dc; *(dc in ch1 sp; 2dc in top of PC; dc in ch1 sp;(**) dc in next 6dc).
Repeat around to (**). dc in next 2 dc; join with sl st to stop of beg ch2.
13. Ch1; bpdc around same post as join; bpdc
in each dc around. Join with sl st to
top of beg bpdc.
14. Ch2; dc in
next 5dc; *(2dc in dc; dc in next 8dc); 2dc in dc; join with sl st to beg ch2.
15. Sc in
join. *(Ch3, sk dc; dc in next dc) around.
Join with sl st in beg sc.
16. Sl st into
next loop. Sc in loop. *(ch3; sc in next
loop) around. Join with sl st in beg sc.
17. Repeat row
16.
18. Repeat row
16.
19. Repeat row
16.
20. Sl st into
next loop. Sc in loop. *(ch4; sc in next
loop) around. Join with sl st in beg sc.
21. Repeat row
20.
22. Repeat row
20
23. Repeat row
20.
24. Repeat row
20.
25. Repeat row
20.
26. Ch2; *(4dc
in next loop; dc in sc); Repeat around. Join with sl st to top of beg ch2.
27. Ch1; bpsc
in join, bpsc in next 2dc; ch2; *(bpsc in next 5sc; ch2); bpsc in next 2sc;
join with sl st to beg bpsc. Cut off and
weave in ends.
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For Coaster Size Doily:
Do rows 1-13.
Row 14: ch1; sc in join; *(ch3; sk dc; sc in next sc); repeat around. Join with sl st to beg sc. Tie off.
C
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Save Your Family History ... Save the Art
My cousin in California contacted me to see if I could help her. She came across a number of doilies made by her grandmother (my aunt --- my mother and her grandmother were sisters) and asked if there was any way I could save them.
Some of the threads were so aged, they were started to disintegrate. Just stretching the doilies out with my hands would cause them to break.
I began by unraveling threads for a couple of reasons. I needed a clean start and stop spot to add the new thread, and I needed a thread long enough to weave in so it wouldn't unravel anymore.
The repair itself was just a matter of "eyeballing" the pattern to figure out the stitches, then adding the new thread just like we would do when doing a color change.
On some of the doilies, you can definitely see the color difference. This is because of new thread being combined into old, aged, and faded threads. But as I explain to people, when anthropologists find a skull with pieces missing, they intentionally use a different colored clay or rebuilding compound to fill in the spaces, so they can tell which is the original bone and which is the repair. So I told my cousin (and all future clients who came to be with repairs) "Your item is now anthropologically correct!"
When I finally finished these, I really felt great! Not because of the newly discovered skill I didn't know I had (which WAS pretty cool!) but because I had managed to save some family heirlooms. These 50+ year old pieces of hand made art will live on in our family for future generations to love and admire.
Here are the before and after photos. I hope you like them.
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