Coronavirus doily Part 9

This round has a lot of start-and-stop to it, but it’s the next-to-last round, and the last one will be continuous.  You will (I hope) appreciate the pickiness of this round later…  Wind two shuttles with two different colors, then take the two threads and tie them together with a square knot.  The ends may be worked into the first two rings – that’s part of the pickiness of this, I’m afraid.  I really wanted a bright golden yellow in this round and very sharp eyes may note this is not the same gauge as the other threads.  It seems to work anyway because this ring isn’t structural – I wanted that color there as a sort of gleam of hope in the center of the flower… if you assume the purple is a flower.  You could, of course, make things very slightly easier on yourself and use a single color here. 

Using the main color and tatting in the tail, R: 7+ (join to a p on previous round) 5-7-5. 

After closing the ring, use a fine crochet hook to make a shuttle-join / lock join to the join made in the previous round.  Which means you’re joining to a picot two rounds back. 

R: 5+5-6-4.

Using the second thread-color shuttle, R: 4+3-3-4.

Cut the second thread color and work its tail into the next ring.

R: 4+6-5-5.

After closing this ring, repeat the lock join to the same place as before.

R: 5+7-5+ (to next p of round below) 7.  This last join is tricky, but yes, you can do it!

Cut thread and sew in ends. 

Leaving two picots completely free, Repeat around.  There will be 22 of these flowers around the doily and it will take a little time.  It will take me just a little more time to finish it...

Coronavirus doily, part 9

This part is composed of two rounds – and they’re the same.  You can get from one round to the next with a split chain.
For the first round, joins are made into the middle picot of the 3-picot chains of the previous round.   CH: 8-8+ around. 

Second round is the same: CH: 8-8+ (into p of round below).

You can see from the photo that it's a little ruffled, but this should be corrected by the end...  and the end IS in sight, I promise!

More after this weekend!

Part 8

Hello all - this part is simple - we needed simple about now, didn't we?  Using a ball and shuttle, %^% where two Rs are "toes to toes" in the previous round, R: 4+ (to side p of first R) 4+ (to side p of second R) 4.
CH:  5-5-5-5+ (into top p of single R) 5-5-5-5 
Repeat from %^% around...

Coronavirus doily part 7

As the doily expands, the rounds are getting a bit longer to make.  No fear, the end IS in sight.  For this round, you’ll be using the lock chain and two shuttles wound CTM, to allow you to change shuttles when one is getting used up faster than the other.  Everything on this round is tatted in multiples of five.  You’ll see the entire doily - thus far - and a close up in the photos.

&&& R: 5-5+ (see the four-picot chains of the round before?  Join into any second CH p, counting from the left) 5-5.

Lock CH 5 (one transferred half stitch and one un-transferred half stitch, five times)

Using whichever shuttle works best by the position it’s in,

          R: 5-5-5-5.

            R: 5-5-5-5

Lock CH 5

R: 5+ (to last R p of first R) 5+ (to next CH p) 5-5

Lock CH 5

R: 5+ (to middle R p, 3^rd CH) 5-5-5.

Lock CH 5.

Repeat from &&& .  Notice the inner Rs are joined to the two middle picots of the CH from the last round.  You’ll skip the first and last picots on each CH, and those inner Rs are joined in pairs.  The outer Rs are all joined to each other.  A Ring joined by the side picots alternates between paired Rs, joined to the single Rs by their middle picots. 

You’ll tat around the whole round in this way, and it will take a while.  I think it took me at least six hours!