If you’ve never made a doily blanket, Georgia would be the perfect starting point. It features a lovely, but intuitive lace pattern throughout. Using worsted weight yarn (brands listed below), you can create a beautiful heirloom-quality blanket in a few short hours.
Materials
Approximately 700 yards of worsted weight (aran) yarn
6.5mm (US K) hook
Test yarns used
4 skeins Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice
2 skeins Hobby Lobby I Love This Yarn!
2 skeins Caron Simply Soft
3 skeins Bernat Waverly
U.S. crochet terminology used. Stitches needed: chain, single crochet, double crochet, slip-stitch. Special stitch patterns are described and listed in the file.
Measures ~42″ in diameter. Gauge is unimportant with this sort of lace, but the looser the better. Using yarn and hook specified, 7 Rows x 12 stitches = 4″ square.
See the pattern page on Ravelry:
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I just finished this project and I’m already starting another. Instead of making the blankie size, I used a smaller hook and cotton yarn to make a hearty doily for the table. It worked great! Thank you and keep your patterns coming!
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This one is gorgeous! Well done, I have been doing some similar ones in the larger yarn and I love how they turn out as blankets.
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I bought the pattern, i really liked it, but it is turning out small because I used a (US K). I wanted to say the 6.5mm is not(US K) it’s a
(US N). I didn’t want anyone else to make that mistake.
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Lisa Reply:
February 13th, 2013 at 10:10 pm
Where are you getting your conversion? 6.5mm is US K (10) and N (15) is 9mm.
I think if you generally crochet with a tighter gauge, the larger hook will be beneficial. I usually use a 5mm or 5.5mm (US H or I) for worsted weight yarn, but went up to 6.5mm so the fabric would be open and lacy.
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I love this pattern! I’d love to make it larger, to fit a twin-full size bed. Do you have any tips? Repeating the pattern at a certain point?
Thanks!
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