CROCHET: Amelia Double Flower motif

Amelia is a 3round, 3colour Double Petal Flower 

UK terms in red

YARN:Wendy Supreme Cotton in 3 colours

HOOK: 4mm hook

First colour, 1finger wrap of 4 wraps or ch4, sl st, into a circle.

ROUND 1: cont. first colour, 2dc [2tr] ch1, 2dc [2tr] ch3, repeat 3 more times, sl st, to complete round.

ROUND 2: new colour, Start in a corner sp, ch7, 2tr [2dtr] ch7, sl st, into the same  corner space, 

miss a st, sc [dc] into the next 3sts, miss a st, sl st, into the next corner sp, repeat 3 more times. sl st to complete round.

ROUND 3: attach new colour in the middle sc st, of the row below,

ch3, 5tr [5dtr] into the first ch loop, ch3

sc [dc] between the 2tr [2dtr] 3ch, 5tr [5dtr] into the second ch loop, ch3,
 sc [dc] into middle sc, [dc]

repeat 3 more times, sl st, to complete round.

This motif can be joined together as an all over design using the 
join as you go method.

Side by side joining of a square motif leaves a large hole, now I love holes but not holes quite this big. 


So a fill-in is required...

Fill in pattern for the Large Hole

a one finger wrap of 4 wraps
Round 1: ch2 counts as for dc, 5dc into circle, ch3 sl st into the side of one of the joins ch3, 6dc into circle, miss the next dip, repeat for all sides.
or it could be made into a square or an octagon

My new book is out a little earlier than predicted..

Thanks to all who have pre-ordered it should be on its way to you today

I do hope you all love it as much as the first book

CROCHET: Octagon version of the Double Daisy

Larger 8 Petal Double Daisy... 13" Octagon 

DK Cotton and 4mm hook

Cotton Doilly...and an old design i guess?

Over twelve months ago I started a very similar motif...that seems to have become very popular just lately. 

It was from a small badly stained white cotton motif I found and believe was one of my Mums bits of crochet

It is made in a very fine cotton and guessing about a 2mm/2.5mm hook 

and measures point to point about 7"

My version, or my Mums version has a few more rows and more chain stitches at the out edge from the chart below that i found on Google

I've tried to copy my Mums motif as best I can.

But I've used Wendy Supreme DK and a 4mm hook so mine are considerably larger approx.  10.5/11" and I've made two shawl collars from 4 motifs

still to add an edging i think....WIP

I HAVE REMOVED THE CHART AS IT WAS

FROM JAN EATONS BOOK I BOUGHT IT TO CHECK....

AND IT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED 

ON THE INTERNET OR CLAIMED AS SOMEONE ELES DESIGN

VERY ANNOYING TO ANY DESIGNER/AUTHOR

Doing a bit of research I found this chart above and several very similar versions on google all claiming it was their design.....the earliest I found was from 2007.

 In Jan Eaton's book..The Encyclopaedia of Crochet Techniques 

I have looked at this book in the Library but I don't own a copy...well not yet, it should be delivered tomorrow I hope so i will see what the pattern says.

My guess is its and old design that has been copied modified etc. as my Mum never designed anything herself but copied patterns she liked

I've also played around with adding a flower and leaves in the middle all in Wendy Supreme Cotton

Wendy Yarns...Evolve 5 Colour Granny Square

 A wonderful Chunky and a 5 colour granny square...
click HERE for colour chart

First make four one round granny squares 

 Join as you go into a square, then add a round of dc (tr)

 Lovely Soft Alpaca mix, to make some wonderful subtle colour combinations...lots more samples to come

 100g balls of softness

 crochets easily and grows quickly

Happy Hooking all