Mountain Laurel by Mayumi Sato

Snowy White

from Crochet Fantasy 173, Feb 2004;

made 2 cuts between sections that are worked back and forth in rows; avoided further cuts by working Rows 21-24 with Row 25 without cutting thread between sections.

Rnd 29: omitted ch3 loops between scallops, 96 sts total

added a Rnd 30: eased in puckers and added picots

Lula M. Harvey, thistle motif

- in Priscilla Irish Crochet Book No. 1, 1912, Boston MA, found on the Antique Pattern Library website

Fig 98-99

Snowy White by Josie Rabier, WIP

from Crochet Fantasy 173, Feb 2004
- ran out of thread; up to Rnd 14 of 29; almost 7" across, sb closer to 9" diameter, far short of a 21" finished size

DMC Mum + Leaves

DMC chrysanthemums and
Harvey, Lula M.'s leaves

2 Chrysanthemums

DMC's Senso Metallic and Onaree's chrysanthemums.

Onaree's Chrysanthemum ...

... pattern on Ravelry and photo on Irish Crochet Lovers Yahoo page, memberships required

- 4 sections done, 7 petals and center ball to go

- a back view of sections crocheted together as-you-go without cutting thread

- petals started with no padding cord and ended with a padding cord loop on one edge only

- used sl st, hdc, dc and tc in addition to sc

Irish Crochet Motifs

Priscilla Irish Crochet Book No. 1

Fig. 34 - Thistle, an abbreviated version using padding







Fig. 43, Scroll
Fig. 42 Leaf
Fig. 41 Rose

More Holiday Delights ...

... from previous years, also from talented DSIL.

Fig. 27

Clones Knot

eta: better method at this YouTube link.

Today, I learned another way to make a Clones Knot
(... like the two bottom ones in the photo)
eta: I like Eithne D'arcy's version better

- make the ch





- temporarily 'park/anchor' the tip of the crochet hook into the work to facilitate wrapping







- start wrapping the hook to the ch,
NB: loosely, not snug








- keep sliding wraps up against loop on hook








- 'unpark' tip of crochet hook and pick up a loop through center of ring
- yarn over hook, hold wraps and loops on hook with left thumb and index finger and pull yarn through all loops on hook

Some Irish Crochet and other motifs

Fig. 19
Fig. 14/15 without picot loops
Fig. 18
Fig. 17

Sources;
- Priscilla Irish Crochet Book No. 1, 1912, The Priscilla Publishing Company, Boston Ma.



- Crochet World Magazine December 2008

RoErin, unblocked

19 1/2" unblocked, sb 18"
- size 30 Cebelia, 1 x 50g ball
- size 10 Milward steel crochet hook

ROErin - Pinwheels done

- on Round 2 of edging with little left of the first ball of Cordonnet size 30 thread, size 10 steel crochet hook

Rose of Erin, wip

- a pattern from 1945





- hate cutting and weaving in threads so am making cluster/filler stitches as I make the outer pinwheels

1945 'Vanity Fair' ...

from Favorite Doilies ... done.

Summer Sun






Vanity Fair, Favorite Doilies, 1945
size 30 thread - 3 1/2", steel hook 10 size 10 thread, steel hooks 6 - 5 1/4"; 4 - 5 1/2"; 0/1 - 6 1/2"

Holiday Delights

These wonderful cookies were a gift from DSIL - she's so talented!






Sweet Dreams by C. Strohmeyer finished Dec 28

otn: another pattern from C. Strohmeyer, July's Summer Sun

Sweet Dreams wip

OTN: Sweet Dreams, the month of May's entry in C. Stohmeyer's A Year of Doilies, (modifying the last round to avoid cutting the thread.)

Loads of snow in the Lower Mainland over the holidays with more to come.

Snow Flurry, finished

A Year of Doilies, 1991 Leisure Arts 2120

- 14" unblocked doily, (15" in leaflet)
- size 10 thread
- 1.5 mm hook
- altered the last 3 Rounds for sharp points rather than round ones
- a gift for Mom

Snow Flurry Doily

... by C Strohmeyer, a wip at Rnd 16 of 21.

Snow Flurry wip

- the December design from Leisure Arts, A Year in Doilies
- how apropos since we had a huge storm yesterday and with more to come later today, currently a windchill of -37C, brrrr...

Hazel Henry's, Fruit of the Tree Doily

Decorative Crochet Magzine, September 1997, #59
8" pink doily using size 30 thread & 0.75/0.6 mm steel hooks




red Irish Rose/Leaf motif from a napkin ring pattern in The International Collection of Crochet Patterns

Irish Lace/Tea Time Doily by Dot Drake

- size 20 thread, 1.0 mm steel hook.
I am learning how to make a variation of a clones knot;
- hold thread, between hook and left hand, with left thumb and index finger
- make 1st wrap to the right of thumb
- make 2nd wrap to the left of thumb
- pull 2nd wrap through 1st one, release thread from left thumb/index finger, then snug up the loop just made on hook; rpt for number of required loops.
- must remember to make the second-to-last loop looser otherwise the hook will not go cleanly through all the loops on hook; takes a lot of practice.
How anyone does this with size 70 or 100 thread is amazing!

eta: YouTube link

Paisley Long Shawl & Anemones

2/28 Cashmere from Colourmart in the UK.
3.25 mm circulars
74" x 17" after blocking with fringe; 48" x 16" before blocking and fringe






- still working out the edging for this Irish crochet project.