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  • Spiral Lace Single Crochet Mat

    Spiral Lace Single Crochet Mat

    Therapy crochet while I listened to a message at home. I started messing with dishcloth cotton because I need some more dishrags, kinda reinvented the wheel (this basic sc lace doily idea’s been around since early times) but then added another petal in between to make twelve instead of six, and AFAIK that’s new. I’m pretty happy with how this came out.

    It’s a nice easy to remember formula, so I’ll be making more. It seems like it could go bigger and gain more points without losing shape. I might try it sometime.

    Multicolor pinwheel cotton dishcloth or mat
    Bit rough, do forgive. I’ll polish it more after a while.

    My idea of a crochet pattern is just the stitches, not how to join them. So the instructions are short.

    Ch6, join to form a round
    In one loop of each chain, (2sc, 1ch) six times around
    (1sc in each sc, 1sc in chain, 2ch) six times around
    After that, skip the first sc, sc in ea sc, 2sc in the chain, then half as many chain as sc, generous [Meaning, if there are 5sc, use 3ch]
    Continue like that to the end of the round with 7sc
    The next round, (4sc, 4ch, 4sc, 4ch) six times around
    Then (5sc, 3sc) twelve times around
    Etc

    I went up to 8sc x 12 and that was 9″, a nice size for a dishcloth. I was using size H crochet hook.

  • Crochet Openwork Septagon Counter Mat

    Crochet Openwork Septagon Counter Mat

    I wanted, not a dishcloth, but a cotton round to lie on the kitchen counter for cushion under pans and things. I wanted it openwork for more ventilation.

    1)   Dig through the internet for two hours  2)  There’s nothing like that  3) Invent something.

    Not that I really cared until I started, but there aren’t many septagon doily patterns out there.  I don’t favor six points, and eight points is too many, so if I’m going to make this up by myself it might as well have seven. And I’m only going to say heptagon if the month after August is Heptember.

    I like how it worked out. Seven sides, seven scs in each loop. It’s a very perfect pattern!

    I like how it resembles a flower. If the center was yellow, the petals rose and the outside green it would look even cooler but these were the only scraps of dishcloth cotton that I had handy at the moment.

    Shorthand version of a pattern…

    (sc = don’t yarn over,  dc = yarn over once,  tc = yarn over twice)

    Round 1: Ch4 and join into a ring
    Round 2: (1sc, ch5) seven times around
    Round 3: 5sc in each loop
    Round 4: In the middle sc of the five (1sc, ch6)
    Round 5: 7sc in each loop
    Round 6: Skip 1st sc, then in the next 5scs do this – 2dc, 2dc, 2tc, 2dc, 2dc
    Round 7: 1sc in first dc, ch6, 1sc in second tc, ch6, repeat around
    Round 8: 7sc in each loop

    And here’s a diagram:

    Septagon crochet mat pattern

    Update early next morning: those three mats on the counter made me smile. They’re happy-making! 😊

    Update late next morning: I find them naturally in use. Even the phone has a coaster. Now maybe we need one more–?