Cozy @ Home Crocheting

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Jan 29, 2010 12:00 AM

CROCHET: Heart Miniature Doily

"HEART" from Ultimate BOOK of Miniature Doilies

I saw this small, very simple looking little 4 heart doily in one of my books and decided to make it.   It was whipping right along, and I was living in a world where I believed the humps of the top of the heart would be made by a series of triple crochet stitches and slip stitches for the low middle part.  Unfortunately, when I reached that part, I found that you had to fasten off and restart for each hump at the top of a heart!  arggg... I did it, but now the instructions for the chain stitch loops around it are just insane, like rejoin in the first stitch of the 7th round on the right side of the top of the heart's first half.   Just way too many words there.   I'd much preferred an arrow pointing to the picture!   Look at this mess! (wails the person who hates hiding ends)

P1280017.jpg picture by cozyhomelife

Well, it took me 1 hour and 20 minutes to hide all the ends from the heart humps that had to all be worked separately - and that's a LOT of time spent burying ends for a 4.5" doily!  I used a pale pink that was a DMC Traditions thread (not cebelia) that used to be found at Walmart, and changed to a white for the final round.   There are so many ends because you have to finish each heart bump top separately.

For the white finish rnds, just the last round that encircles the hearts and brings it all together, and then a round of stitches over it to give it some weight.  I looked at the pic in the book and just aimlessly do it, since just reading the first line of where to put the first stitch drove me insane, and each stitch has an equally alarming description of where it goes.   After all, the person who did it originally had no instructions and just decided where to put them... so...... 

It was very sweet when done, though.

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I am trying to get back to my hobbies that I once enjoyed 20-30 years ago, such as crocheting, knitting, quilting, scrapbooking.    Well.... I've dabbled in many, but maybe I'll actually get good at one of them this time! Presently have 2 rescue dogs, 3 cats I took in, a mountain of thread and yarn, and a whole lot of ambition :)
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