Alka and Arts: New Year Special Table Mat with Eyelash Yarn

Hello, HAPPY NEW YEAR to all my friends. May this year be free from all health problems and may all your wishes come true.

For new year's welcome I made this beautiful tablemat.

I used pink eyelash yarn which is calling me since 6 months from the box of all yarns. Along with Vardhamaan Millenium white and green yarn. One more beautiful yarn is Oswal's Rangoli shading yarn. I used 3.5 mm hook for this.

The pattern is here,

Flower: Make 6 flowers.

With white yarn, make a ring of ch6.

R1: dc16 in a ring, cl.

R2: With shading yarn, (make ch 10, skip 2 chs, hdc 1 in 2 sts, dc 1 in 3 sts,hdc 1 in 2 sts, sl st in last st,

Sl st in next white st) 16 times. Sl st in the base of first petal.

Then make sl st 1 in 5 sts along the edge of the first petal.

(Ch3, sl st in the 5^th edge st of next petal) rep till end. From back side the flower will look like this.

Flower completed, make such 6 flowers.

Now we are joining 3 flowers.

Next round by green yarn, join green yarn in any ch3-sp behind the petal..

R1: dc 4 in each ch3-sp, cl (64 sts).

R2: ch1, sc 1 in same st, sc1 next, join the petal by sc in back loop of petal and next green st, ……

(sc 1 in 3 sts, sc to join the next petal) rep till end, sc 1 in last st, cl.

R3: [(ch3, skip 2 sts, sc 1 in next) 3 times, ch5, skip 2 sts, sc 1 in next, ch7, sc 1 in next st, ch5, skip 2 sts, sc 1 in next] 4 times.

R4:sl st till centre of next ch3-loop, (ch3 sc 1 in next loop) till ch5-loop, then ch4, sc 1 in ch7-loop] rep all around.

Now for second flower work these 3 green rounds and round 4 on 3 sides of motif, so that these two motives can be joint on this side.

Next 4 rounds by white yarn.

R1: [dc 4 in each ch3-space and shell at corner’s sc-st, shell means (dc2, ch2, dc2)] rep all over.

R2, R3, R4: dc 1 in each st, shell on shell at corner.

Next4 rounds by eyelash yarn.

R5: R6, R7, R8: are worked on wrong side with eyelash yarn same as R2, 3 and 4.

R9: with green yarn join at any st, (make popcorn in this st, means make dc 5 in same st, remove hook, insert it in first dc-st and pass the working loop through this, one popcorn made, ch2) rep till corner at corner make popcorn, ch2, popcorn in ch2-sp.

Note that there should be equal number of popcorns on both parallel sides.

Here we have 39 popcorns in length and 25 on width side.

R10: With white yarn, [( dc2 in one ch2-sp, dc 3 in next ch2-sp) rep till corner, shell in ch2-sp at corner] rep all over.

R 11 12 and 13: as round 2.

R14: join green yarn at ch2 of shell at corner, sc 1 in 3 sts, (skip 2 sts, dc 9 in next, skip 2 sts, sc 1 in 7 sts) rep till corner,

R15: join shading yarn at the third right st from dc 9 fan. [Ch2, skip 1 dc, (2dctog in next dc-st,ch 1) 6 times, 2dctog in next, skip last dc-st, ch2, skip 1 st, sc 1 in next] rep all around. At corner (sc 1, ch2, sc 1) in ch2 sp of shell.

R16: Join white yarn at first dc-st, sc 1 there, [(ch3, sc 1 in next ch1-sp, repeat 7 times, ch2, sc 1 in ch2 sp at the base between two fans, ch2, sc 1 in first gap between two petals] rep.

R17: [(sc 1 in ch3-sp, ch3 picot, ch1) 3 times, ch2, sc 1 in the middle sp, ch5-picot in the middle petal, ch2, (sc 1 in ch3-sp, ch3 picot, ch1) 3 times, ch1] rep till end.