Wheat Stalks by Chantal Chevalier,

Wheat Stalks by Chantal Chevalier

from Decorative Crochet March 1992 #26, pattern 28
started Apr 24
size 10 thread
Milward size 10 & 11 steel hooks

Spun Sugar by Mayumi Sato Finished ...

20" x 12" (unblocked)









... plus a 3" tall mini sock -
cast on 24 st instead of 72 st using Gail's Basic Sock Pattern

Spun Sugar by Mayumi Sato

3 dc in ch loop done 3 ways, from right to left;
- in the ch loop (as in magazine)
- in 1 ch of the ch loop
- 1 dc in each of the middle 3 ch of the ch loop

Spun Sugar by Mayumi Sato

by Mayumi Sato

size 10 thread
Boye size 6, 1.8 mm, according to this steel hook conversion chart

Flowers & Diamonds

Flowers & Diamonds motif top
Magic Crochet Feb 1997, #106-24

started Apr 5 '09
Aunt Lydia 10
Boye steel hook 7

- hibernating, want to frog this one, too, but there are 42 of them suckers

'Bedspread' pattern - frogged, i.e. rip-it, rip-it, rip-it ...
filet crochet, spider motif
size 10 thread
Boye steel hook 3
gauge: 4" = 39 sts, 12 dc rows




Shamrock & crown square motif
- 'Irish Lace Square' from The Pattern Library - CROCHET, 1981 Ballantine Books, NY

Bolero Finished

Bolero '4' by Jessica Tromp

4 of 10 motifs done

pattern - a version of a Japanese one

Pink Nosegay by Mayumi Sato

Decorative Crochet #24 November 1991
- pattern is for a 15" doily

8", unblocked
- Cebelia 30, white
- Milward size 11 steel hook

'Pink' Nosegay by Mayumi Sato

- central motif finished; cut and rejoined thread to start outer octagon shape.

Mountain Laurel, finished

- 13 1/2" unblocked
- size 30 Cebelia thread
- size 11 & 1.25mm hooks

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