Alka and Arts: Diwali Special Doily with Diyas, Thalposh, Mandalam

Hello friends, In India every one is busy in preparing for Diwali, the big festival here about which I have written on my 16th Oct 2019's post. It is a festival of light. Last year I made three types of lamps (which is called Panati). You can read my post on 16th, 17th and 19th Oct 2019, one of the link I am sharing here, So looking at the importance of panati (special type of mud lamps), this time I design the doily with Panatis on it. I used 4 ply yarn and 3.5 mm crochet hook. Pattern: Make a ring of ch5. Also note that whenever I write dcs in a round first dc is always ch3. R1: dc 18 in a ring, cl (18 sts)

R2: dc2 in each st, cl (36 sts)

R3: (dc2, dc1 in next 2 sts) 9 times, cl (48 sts)

R4: (dc2, dc1 in next 2 sts) 16 times, cl (64 sts)

R5: (dc2, dc 1 in each of next 3 sts) 16 times, cl (80 sts)

R6: (dc1 in 9 sts by blue, dc 1 in next by yellow) 8 times, cl (80 sts)

R7: (dc 1 in 9 sts by blue, dc3 in next by yellow) 8 times, cl (96 sts)

R8: [(dc3 in one st, dc1 in each of next 7 sts, dc3 in next) all by blue, 3dctog by yellow] 8 times, cl (112 sts)

R9: Join red yarn after yellow st, ch1, sc 1 in each of the next 6 sts, (sc 1 in next by blue, sc 1 in each of next 13 sts by red) rep 7 times, sc 1 in next by red, lastly sc 1 by blue in 7 sts, cl.

R10: with red yarn, sl st in each of the next 3 sts, turn, dc9 in yellow stitch, join by sc 1 in 3rd st, sl st in next 3 sts, turn, dc 2 in each of the 9 sts, bind off.

So we make all eight diyas seperately. Now join red yarn at 4th st after yellow st and make a new diya. R11: Join blue yarn at the st in between two diyas, dc7 in that st, [ch10, dc 7 in next st in between two diyas} rep, ch 10 join by sl st to the first dc (out of 7)

R12:(dc2, dc1, dc2, dc1, dc2, dc1, dc 2) on 7 dc-sts, dc 10 in ch10 space, (thus total 21 dcs) 8 times, cl (168 sts)

R13: dc 1 in each st, joining 4 base red sts of each diya. cl (168 sts) (that is dc17 and then next 4 dcs joining 4 red sts)

From next row we make border, it is 3 layered border which is very unique and beautiful Border R1: (sc1, ch5, skip 3 sts, sc1 in next, ch3 skip 1 st, sc1 in next) rep 24 times, cl.

R2: (dc 8 in ch5-sp, join by sc 1 in next ch3-sp) rep till end, cl.

R3: (sl st in first st (out of 8 dc-sts), sc1 in back loop of next st, [ch7, sc 1 in back loop of last but one (7th) dc-st, ch3, sc 1 in back loop of second dc-st in next loop] rep, lastly instead of ch3, make ch1 and hdc 1 in first st so that working st will be at centre, cl.

R4: (dc10 in ch7-space, join by sc 1 in ch3 sp) rep till end, cl.

R5: sl st in first dc-st (out of 10), [sc1 in back loop of second st, ch 9, join by sc1 in back loop of last but one st (out of 10 dc-sts), ch3] rep, again instead of last ch3 make ch1, hdc 1 in first st,