Crochet Doily with Leaves Border

Hello friends, Yes I know that there is a long gap since I posted previous post. You know, some times what happens that we are so busy in creativity, one after one new ideas strike in mind and before forgetting it we want to execute it and in that period we don't want to write the pattern and all because we are actually enjoying the creativity a lots. This is, what happened with me in last 8-10 days. So here I am giving a pattern of one of the doily I made in this week. Pattern: Make a ring of ch10 R1: dc18 in this ring, cl (18 sts) Note that first dc is always ch3. R2: dc 2 in each st, cl (36 sts) R3: (dc2 in one st, dc 1 in next st) 18 times, cl (54 sts) R4: (dc2 in one st, dc1, in next 2 sts) 18 times, cl (72 sts)

R5: (dc1, ch1) 72 times, cl (72 ch1-sp) R6: (dc1 on dc-st, ch1) 72 times, cl R7: same as R6.

Now we shall make leaves on rounds 5,6 and 7. So join green yarn at some dc of last round. R8: (3dctog there, also 3dctog on dc down two rounds, means dc of round 5, but here after 3 incomplete dcs YO and pass through only 3 sts and not 4 sts, then again YO and pass through remaining two sts, join by sl st to the dc of 6th round after skipping one row line. Then sl st in the next row dc of 7th round) repeat till the round complete. BO after last pair of leaves. See the following photos for details

R9: dc 1 in each dc-st, dc 1 in ch1-sp, till end, cl (144 sts) R10: dc 1 in each st, cl R11: and R12 same as R10. R13: (dc1, ch1) 144 times, cl R14: same as R13.

R15: Same as R8 only with the changes that instead of skipping one row line we skip two line and then make new pair of leaves. That is, Join green yarn in any dc of last round. (3dctog there, also 3dctog on dc down two rounds, means dc of round 12, but here after 3 incomplete dcs YO and pass through only 3 sts and not 4 sts, then again YO and pass through remaining two sts, join by sl st to the dc of 13th round then make one long stitch sl st in next middle dc, after skipping one row line make new pair of leaves) repeat till the round complete. BO after last pair of leaves. BO. See the difference between round 8 and this round, how the space is kept in between two pair of leaves in this round.

The beautiful doily will be ready as in figure 1. The back side of the doily will be seen as below.

The following video with English subtitles may help you. ETC: Enjoy the Creativity.