Crochet Door Hanging (Toran) Specially for Diwali (Part 1)

Heloo friends, how are you? Hope everything is fine in your life. As I have written in my last post about the big festival Diwali in India, so every one is busy in decorating our house in a new look. Hence I made this Door Hanging for my home. We call it Toran. Fig 1 and for close up see fig 2. For this I used two types of bead, 4 ply yarn in two colours (yellow and dark pink)and 3.5 mm crochet hook. In this post I will explain Toran patti - means the upper strip of the door hanging. Pattern: TORANPATTI: R1: With maroon colour, make ch4, dc 1 in first ch (loop made), ch5, incomplete tr 5 in first ch, YO pass through all 5 sts, (petal made) ch 3, dc 1 in a st just as (another loop made), repeat this, making one petal one loop, till the required length and last should be petal. I make 40" and for that there are 24 petals and 24 loops.

R2: Ch 6, turn, petal 1 in next loop, ch 6, petal 1 in same loop, ch6, petal 1 in next loop, ch6, petal 1 in same loop. Thus go on making petals 2 in each loop seperated by ch6. In case of last loop make 5 petals. Thus first 6-petals flower is ready. Go on making 2 petals seperated by ch6 in each loop from other side also.

R3: Join yellow yarn at any ch6 space. Make ch1, sc 7 in each ch-6 sp.

R4: Either make sl st till the 4th sc (out of 7 sc) or bind off. ch1, (tr1, ch1) 6 times in the 4th sc of next sp, ch1, join by sc1 in 4 th sc in next sp. Repeat this till edge of toran, make sc 1 in each of the 7 sts. Repeat this on other side also.

R5: sl st till second dc-st (out of 6), ch3, (ch2, dc 1 in next tr-st) 3 times, then (dc1, ch2) 4 times in second loop, at edge ch3, skip one tr, dc 1 on each 7 sc-st, ch3, skip first tr-st, dc1, in next, you can see how the edge looks, in next fig. repeat this on other side and other edge.

R6: Join dark colour at the first ch2-sp, dc3 in each of the three ch2-spaces, dc 1 at joint,at edge, dc 5 at corner's space, dc 4 in next ch3-sp, dc 1 in each of the 7 sc-sts, dc 4 in next ch3-sp, dc 5 in corner's sp. Work similarly on other side.

R7: (dc3 on 3 dc sts of first gap, 2dctog in next, dc 3 on 3 dcs of next gap, 2dctog) rep through out, thus decrease 2 sts in between 10 sts.

In second part, we shall see the remaining part of door hanging. For this part you can use this video with English subtitles.

ETC: Enjoy the Creativity.