My brain works so much better with charted patterns, I find it so much easier to see where I am going. The only difficulty I had was printing them off in high enough quality that I could count the stitches. I need printed copies, so that I can take them on the train, but also I like to colour the rounds with a highlighter (like this) and tick them off as I go. The text is all in Russian, so I have no idea what they're called, and the only way I've worked out to link to the individual patterns is to copy them to pinterest first.
All the doilies on this page were made using Aunt Lydia's classic 10 crochet cotton, and a 2mm hook.
This doily was very easy, it is a nice repetitive pattern, and because it is so open, it was very quick to make. It measures 40cm or 15 3/4" across. The first photo shows it after blocking, and the second photo shows it pre-blocking, with another doily from this web page.
The smaller doily is actually just the first seven rounds of a larger pattern. It measures 14cm across.
This doily is took me from Aberystwyth to Shrewsbury on the train (about 2 hours). It measures 71/2" or 19.5cm diameter. Although I like the doily and it was easy to make, you have to cut and rejoin the thread twice, which I didn't like.
These four doilies took the next three hours of my train journey. Again, they are the centres of larger patterns from the same webpage.
Seven doilies is probably enough for one blog post, but there have been, and will be more from that website. The football has been on in our house a lot recently. At least the football is a lot more positive than politics at the moment.
