Alka and Arts: Beautiful Crochet Toran, Door Decor, Bandhanwaar

Hello friends,

After so many days I made Door Decor, TORAN. It's design is very unique. It is made by Granny squares. Moreover this granny square is so multipurpose, number of it's uses I have shown in the video below. You can make coin bag, Mobile bag, Draw string bag, Tablemat and what not!

Yarn: Vardhaman Millenium, Hook 3.5 mm. Length 35", height 9.5" and weight 130 gm. Blue and Green 40 gm each and White 50 gm.

PATTERN: R1: With dark blue make, dc 16 in magic loop, cl, BO. (First dc is always ch3).

Join Blue yarn at any st of R1.

R2: ch1, sc1, (ch7, sc in each ch from second, join by sc1 in next st, sc 1 in next blue st) 8 times, cl. We get 8 bases of petals.

R3: Along those 6 scs make, (sc1, hdc1, dc2, (dc2) next, (dc3) next, then on other side, (dc3) in one st, (dc2) next, dc2, hdc1, sc1, join by sc in between two scs of base) 8 times, cl.

Flower complete. Join white yarn at middle sc (made in previous round), by inserting hook just like bpsc.

R1: (ch5, bpdc on middle sc-st between two petals) 8 times, cl. Sl st in first ch5-sp.

R2: [dc3 in ch5-sp, ch1, shell (dc3, ch2, dc3) on next ch5-sp, ch1] 4 times, cl.

R3: [(dc3 in ch1-sp, ch1) 2 times, shell on shell, ch1] 4 times, cl.

In next round we shall join these petals to white background 4 will be joint in R4 at corners and remaining 4 in R5.

R4: [dc3 in ch1-sp, ch1, dc3 in ch2-sp of shell, ch2, then while making next dc3 of shell join one blue petal in the space between 6dcs (3dcs on both side of joint) at the time of first dc, remaining 2dcs in the same ch2-sp, ch1, (dc3 in ch1-sp, ch1) 3 times, (NOTE that we don't join next petal here, that will be joint in next round), shell on shell joining the next petal as at first corner, (dc3, ch1) 3 times, (without joining next petal), again join next petal at corner and in this way complete the round. 4 petals joint and 4 not.

R5: dc1 in each dc-st, dc1 in ch1-sp, shell at corner and join petal as in previous round at the time of working middle dc in the middle group of (dc3), complete the round.

For Toran we make 6 grannies like this. Each granny has length 5.4", so if you want bigger Toran you may make grannies accordingly.

Now we have 25 sts on each side aaaand ch2-sp at corner. Join them by green yarn, join green yarn at ch2-sp of shells of 2 grannies.

Joining: (sl st in next st of left granny, sl st in next st of right granny) rep till the complete side of granny. Thus join all 6 grannies.

Border: With green, dc1 in each st, (dc2, ch2, dc2) at corner, cl, BO.

Then decorate it by beads and pompom.

Join green yarn at corner, (ch6, pass bead 1) rep till the required height and join second edge.

We shall also make green stem at corner as shown. Join green yarn at corner, ch10, dc1 in 4th ch, ch1-picot, ch4, join at the 4th st again by sl st. Make ch4 and other leaf at the same place. Again ch10 and 2 leaves. We made 4 pairs of leaves then at last ch10 and only one leaf.