Alka and Arts: Beautiful Crochet Doily Using Solomon Knot

Monday, February 21, 2022

Beautiful Crochet Doily Using Solomon Knot

Hello friends,

Hope you are fine and busy in some crocheting work.

My next project is making a doily with Solomon knot stitch.

I used here so many colours for Holi special but in one colour also it will look amazing.

I used 4 ply yarn and 3.5 mm hook. The diameter of the doily comes out to be 18" and it's weight is 65 gm. If you want to make bigger in size then after round 11, you can have again two rounds of Solomon knot and then similar rounds as R4, R5 or R8 and R9 and then make border.

Pattern: Ring of ch4.

R1: dc 16 in ring, cl.

R2: (2dctog, ch3) rep, cl.

R3: dc 3 in each ch3-sp, cl.

Join yellow in the middle st out of 3 dcs. st,

R4: (Solomon knot (SK) 2 join by sc 1 in the middle dc of next 3dcs) rep till end, cl.

R5: Make SK 1 extra , join by sc 1 to reach the top of first pair of SK, then (2SK, join by sc at the top of next pair of SK) rep, cl. BO.

Join green yarn at the top of any pair of SK.

R6: (3dctog at the top of pair of SK, ch7) rep till end, cl.

R7: dc9 in each ch7-sp, cl (144 sts).

Join red yarn at the middle st out of 9dc-sts.

R8: (SK 2, join by sc at the joint of 9-9 dcs, SK 2, join by sc at 5^th dc-st) rep till end,

R9: Extra SK sc at the top, this round same as R5.

Join green yarn at any top joint of 2SK.

R10: (3dctog at the top of joint of 2SK, ch5) rep till end, cl (32 ch5-sp).

R11: dc7 in each ch5-sp, cl (224sts). BO.

Join yellow yarn at the first dc-st (out of 7dcs).

R12: (ch5, skip 5 sts, sc 1 in each of the next 9 sts) rep till end, cl (32 ch5 sps).

R13: (dc10 in ch5-sp, skip 2 sc-sts, sc 1 in 5 sts, skip last 2 sc-sts) rep till end, cl.

R14: [ch1, (bpdc 1 in dc, ch1) 3 times, (bptr1, ch1) 4 times, (bpdc 1,ch1) 3 times), skip 2 sts, sc1, skip 2 sts] rep till end, cl. BO.

Join red yarn at ch1-sp between first and second bpdc.

R15:[ (hdc 1 in ch1 sp, ch2) 9 times, ch2] rep till end, cl.

R16: [ (sc2 in ch1-sp, ch3-picot join by sc in last sc) 3 times, sc 2 in ch1-sp, ch5-picot (at centre), sc2 in ch1-sp, ch3-picot join by sc in last sc) 3 times, sc 2 in last gap, sc 1 in middle ch2-sp, sc 2 in first gap] rep till end, cl.