Looks like a normal doily, doesn't it? Here's what makes it interesting:
Normally with a crochet doily, you start off either with a few chain stitches that are joined to make the beginning circle or by wrapping the thread a few times around the pinkie then single crochet stitches around to make the first round. You can tell by looking that this one doesn't start that way. Isn't it pretty? Here's how it starts:
1st Round: Chain 5, slip stitch in 5th st from hook for picot, ch 7, sl st in 7th st from hook for picot, ch 5, sl st in 5th st from hook for picot, sl st in base of 1st picot for picot cluster, ch 4, dc in 4th st from hook, repeat from beginning 3 times, join.
In all the years I've been crocheting, this is the first time I've ever seen this start to a doily and I dig it.
The other outstanding aspect of this pattern was a completely screwed up pattern for round 7. I know people think that vintage patterns are full of errors but, from my experience, this is much more often true of knitting patterns than crochet for some reason. In fact I tried this round about 6 times before I finally came to the conclusion that is wasn't just that I was tired or that I wasn't reading the pattern correctly. Fortunately there was a really good picture of the finished doily so I was able to figure it out from that.
I also wanted to show a sample of the difference the size of the thread makes in the finished product. Remember the Ducks and Drake doily I did with the size 100 thread and size 14 needle? It's in the same book so I decided to do it again in the size 10 thread. It takes on a completely different face.
Can you believe it's the same pattern? It's pretty both ways, I think, but nothing can compare with the daintiness of the smaller thread.
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