Poinsettia Doily

Hi to you all,

I think meanwhile all of you know- I love Ravelry's bamcal group. There is always someone there for helping out, creating new ideas, cheering up and so on. Really incredible vibes of creativity there. This time Chrissy aka Callidrias came up with the idea of a poinsettia doily she needed as a Christmas present. I loved the idea so much that I created one. Here is the result:

Pattern uses U.S. Terms

Size: 29 cm // 11,5“

Skill level: easy to intermediate

Material:

• #10 cotton thread, for example Supergarne Verena or Aunt Lydia's; colours: red, cream or white, dark green

• a small amount of golden thread

• hook: metric size 1,5 // US steel hook size 8

• scissors

• thin yarn needle

Abbreviations (in alphabetic order):

• ch – chain

• dc – double crochet

• dc2tog – dc two together

• fo – fasten off

• pic – picot (ch 3, slst to the first ch)

• rd – round

• sc – single crochet

• slst – slip stitch

• sk – skip

• st – stitch

• tr – treble crochet

• tr2tog – treble two together

• tr3tog – treble three together

Pattern:

Start with white.

Ch 8, close to circle with slst. Do not fo.

1. 

Ch 1 (does not count as st), 16 sc into circle. Slst to first sc, do not fo.

2. 

Ch 1 (does not count as st), (sc, ch 1) into each st. Slst to first sc, fo.

3.

Gold. Work only in ch- spaces, sk all other st: (sc, ch 1) in each ch- space. Slst to first sc, fo.

4.

White. Work only in ch- spaces, sk all other st: (sc, ch 2) in each ch- space. Slst to first sc, fo.

    → your circle should measure now about 4 cm // 1,5”

5. 

Red. Start in any ch-2- space: [sc, ch 5, sk (sc, ch- 2- space, sc)] x8, slst to first sc, do not fo.

6. 

Slst into next ch-5- space, ch 1 (does not coun’t as st): (sc, ch 3, dc, pic, ch 3, sc into same ch-5- space) x8, slst to first sc, do not fo.

7. 

(2 sc into ch-3- space, ch 3, dc into pic, pic, ch 3, 2 sc into next ch- 3- space, slst between next 2 sc) x8, do not fo.

8. 

(sc in next two sc, 3 sc in ch-3 space, sc in pic, ch 3, 3 sc in ch- space, sc in next 2 sc, slst to slst) x8, omitting last slst. Slst to first sc, fo.

    → your circle should measure now about 10 cm/ / 4”

9.

Green. Start in any Ch-3- Space: [(sc, ch 3, sc in Ch-3- space), ch 3, sk 3 st, slst in next sc, sk 2 st, (dc, ch 1, dc, ch1, dc in slst), sk 2 sc, slst in next sc, ch 3, sk 3 st] x8. Slst to first sc, do not fo.

10.

 [Slst to ch-3-space, ch 3, slst into same ch-3- space, ch 5, dc2tog (first leg in ch- space between first and second dc, second leg in next ch-1- space), pic, ch 5] x8. Slst to first slst, fo.

       → Size: 11 cm //4,5”

11.

White. Start in Ch-3- space: [(dc, ch 1, dc) into ch-3- space, (working over rd 10 ch- 5: tr in space between rd 9 slst and rd 9 first dc of a fan, working over rd 10 ch-5, ch 4, tr into same space), sc in pic, (tr in space between rd 9 last dc of a fan and rd 9 slst, working over rd 10 ch-5, ch 4, tr into same space)] x8. Slst to first dc, do not fo.

12. 

Slst into ch-1- space: [(ch 3 (replaces first dc), ch 1, dc into same ch-1- space), (ch 1, dc) x3 in space between dc and tr, 2 sc in ch- 4 space, sc in tr, ch 5, sc in next tr, 2 sc in ch-4- space, ( dc, ch 1) x3 in space between tr and dc] ×8. Slst to top of ch 3, do not fo.

13.

Slst into ch-1- space: [(ch 3 (replaces first dc), ch 1, dc) into ch-1- space, (ch 1, dc) x2 into next ch-space, sc into next ch- space, ch 4, (dc, ch 1, dc) into ch-5- space, ch 4, sc into second ch- space of next 3- dc- fan, (dc, ch 1) x2 into next space] x8. Slst to top of ch 3, do not fo.

14.

Slst into next ch-1-space (which is the middle ch-1-space of the fan): [(ch 3 (replaces first dc), ch 1, dc) into that ch-1- space, ch 6, (dc, ch 1, dc) in ch-1- space of next (dc, ch- 1, dc), ch 6] x8. Slst to top of ch 3, do not fo.

15. 

Slst into next ch-1- space: [(ch 3 (replaces first dc), ch 1, dc, ch 1, dc, ch 1, dc, ch 1, dc) into ch-1- space, (sc, ch 2, dc, ch 2, sc) into ch-6-space] x16. Slst to top of ch 3, do not fo.

16. 

Slst into middle dc of a fan: ch 1( does not count as st), [sc in same st, ch 5, (dc, ch 1, dc) in the dc in the middle between the ch-2- spaces, ch 5] x16. Slst to sc, fo.

17. 

Red. Start in any sc: [sc in sc, sc in ch-5- space, ch 1, (dc, ch 1, dc, ch 1, dc) in dc, ch 1, dc in ch 1, ch 1, (dc, ch 1, dc, ch 1, dc) in dc, ch 1, sc in ch-5] ×16. Slst to first sc, fo.

18.

Green. Start in middle dc of a fan (the dc above a ch 1): (sc, ch 3, tr3tog in 2nd sc, ch 5, tr3tog in same sc, ch 3) x16. Slst to first sc, fo.

19.

White. Start in any sc: [sc, ch 3, dc in tr3tog, ch 3, tr2tog ( first leg in same st, second leg in next tr3tog, ch 3, dc in same st, ch 3] ×16. Slst to first sc, do not fo.

20.

ch 1 (does not count as st), [sc in sc, ch 3, (dc, ch 1, dc) in dc, ch 1, (dc, ch 1, dc, ch 1, dc, ch 1, dc) in tr2tog, ch 1, ( dc, ch 1, dc) in dc, ch 3] ×16. Slst to first sc, fo.

Now weave in all ends. Mind to weave in into same colours ( red into red, green into green, white into white).

Round by round pictures:

That's it! I hope you enjoyed this pattern.

Copyright by Loewenzahm, September 2023

Thanks so much to my testers Dani (danika2407 on ravelry), Chrisi (Callydrias on ravelry) and Vicky (pippin90). You did a very important and not easy job (as I tend to forget brackets, semicolons and so on...)