My Heart Doily  

  

I would love to have a vase on my table, a vase filled with lovely flowers! But the vase always covers the well-designed beginning of a Doily or 

mandala. So I decided to create a "simple" beginning and allow the edge to appear together with a vase filled with lovely flowers. 

 Thank you for crocheting my design, I hope you have fun on the way. For me it 

is important to enjoy every round and that it is fun to crochet. Crochet should be a way to relax, a form of meditation. 

 Hughs Elisabeth 

  

Yarn: Cotton 8/4, I have used Capri from Katia. 

Crochet hook: 3 

Consumption of yarn: 55gram 

Size: 28- 30cm (depends on whether you block it) 

 

description of sitches & other info: 

Ch= chain 

Sl st = Slip stitch 

sc = Single crochet 

Hdc = Half double crochet 

Dc = Double crochet 

FP Sc = Front Post Single crochet 

Puff= 9 loops total 

**_** = Repeat as the pattern says 

*_* = Repeat around work 

(_) = Total of st in the round 

End all rounds with 1 sl st in 1st stitch  

If you use same yarn in all rounds you crochet sl st to stitch you should start 

the round in

 

Start with 4 ch and finish them into a ch-loop with 1 sl st in 1st ch. 

 

R1. 12dc around Ch-loop. 

 

R2. 2hdc in each dc from round 1. 

(24hdc) 

 

R3. Sc in each hdc.  

Now bowls to work, but it corrects itself in the coming rounds. 

(24sc) 

 

R4. 2hdc in each stitch. 

(48hdc) 

 

R5. sc in each stitch. 

(48sc)  

 

R6. *1hdc, 2hdc in next stitch* 

(72hdc) 

 

R7. Sc in each stitch. 

(72sc) 

 

R8.Hdc in each stitch. 

(72 hdc) 

 

R9. Sc in each stitch. 

(72sc) 

 

R10. Hdc in each stitch 

(72hdc) 

 

R11. Sc in each stitch 

(72sc) 

 

R12. 1hdc in first 2 stitches, 2hdc in 3rd stitch. *hdc in next 2 stitches, 2hdc in 

3rd stitch* Round finish with hdc in next 2 stitches. 

(96hdc) 

 

R13. Sc in each stitch. 

(96sc) 

 

Now the work measures about 16cm and we start with a border around it. 

 

R14. 1sc + 1ch in each stitch. 

(96sc, 96ch)  

 

R15. Start around ch1 with 1 puff, *skip sc, 2dc around next ch1 *Skip 1sc, 1 

puff around next ch1, skip 1sc, 1dc around Ch1, skip 1sc, 1puff around next ch1* 

(48 puff, 72dc) 

 

R16. Start around puff with 1 Fp sc, 4ch, *skip all stitches to next puff, 1 Fp sc, 

4ch* 

(48 Fp sc, 48x 4ch) 

 

Now we start with a border full of hearts. 

 

R17. *4dc around ch4, skip Fp sc, 1sc around Ch4, 3ch, skip Fp sc, 1sc around 

Ch4, 3ch, skip Fp sc* 

(16 x 4dc, 48x3ch, 32sc) 

 

R18. * 2dc in each dc, 3ch, skip ch3+1sc, 1sc around next ch3, 3ch, skip 1sc + 

ch3* 

(16x8dc, 32x3ch, 16sc) 

 

R19. *2dc in 1st dc, 2dc, 2dc together, 2dc, 2dc in last dc. 2ch, skip 

ch3+sc+ch3* 

(16x 2dc together, 16x8dc, 6x2ch) 

 

R20. *1sc in 1st dc,, skip 1dc, 5dc in next dc, skip 1dc, 1sc in 2 dc together. Skip 

1dc, 5dc in next dc, skip 1dc, 1sc in last dc. Skip 2ch* 

 

R21. Start in 1st sc with 1 sl st, * **2ch, 1 sl st in next stitch** repeat 4 times 

more. 1 Fp sc around sc. 1sl st **2ch, 1sl st in next stitch** repeat 4 times 

more. 1sl st in 1st sc* 

(16 Fp sc, 144sl st, 120x2ch)