How to Crochet a Breast Cancer Ribbon on Doilies
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Your steel crochet hook can help you create a pink ribbon.colour ball of the threads image by Ekaterina Shvigert from Fotolia.com
Make a slip knot in your crochet thread and tighten it around the neck of your crochet hook. Make a foundation chain of 26 chain stitches plus three additional chains, then make three more chains for the turning chain. For each unevenly numbered row, work from the right to the left side of the pattern and for each evenly numbered row, work from the left to the right side of the pattern. - 2
Filet crochet creates a pattern of open and closed mesh.crochet background image by Adrian Hillman from Fotolia.com
Make one double crochet stitch into the fourth chain from your hook, then into each chain stitch of your foundation chain. Turn your work. Working from left to right for row two, make one double crochet each into the first three double crochet stitches and chain two stitches. Skip two double crochet stitches and stitch into the second chain from your hook. Continue to chain two and skip two stitches to the end of row two--these will be open meshes. End row two with a closed mesh by crocheting three double crochet stitches in the last three stitches of row two. - 3). Crochet rows three and four as you did row two.
- 4). Crochet one double crochet each into the first three double crochet stitches, then crochet nine open meshes. On the next, crochet one closed mesh, then 13 open meshes for the remainder of row five. Crochet row six with 13 open meshes, then one closed mesh. End row six with nine open meshes.
- 5). Crochet a closed mesh for the first three double crochet and last three double crochet of each row to the end of your doily. For row seven, crochet eight open meshes, then a closed mesh, then seven open meshes. Crochet two closed meshes, then five open meshes.
- 6). Crochet row eight with seven open meshes and one closed mesh. Crochet six open meshes and one closed mesh. End row eight with eight open meshes.
- 7). Crochet row nine with eight open meshes, one closed mesh, five open meshes, one closed mesh, and eight open meshes. Crochet row 10 with nine open meshes, one closed mesh, four open meshes, one closed mesh, and eight open meshes.
- 8). Crochet row 11 with nine open meshes, one closed mesh, two open meshes, and 10 open meshes. Crochet row 12 with 11 open meshes, two closed meshes, and 10 open meshes.
- 9). Crochet row 13 with 10 open meshes, two closed meshes and 11 open meshes. Crochet row 14 with nine open meshes, two closed meshes, two open meshes, one closed mesh, and nine open meshes.
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Crochet row 15 with eight open meshes, one closed mesh, five open meshes, one closed mesh, and eight open meshes. Crochet row 16 with seven open meshes, one closed mesh, seven open meshes, one closed mesh, and seven open meshes. - 11
Crochet row 17 with six open meshes, one closed mesh, nine open meshes, one closed mesh, and six open meshes. Crochet row 18 with seven open meshes, one closed mesh, seven open meshes, one closed mesh, and seven open meshes. - 12
Crochet row 19 with eight open meshes, one closed mesh, five open meshes, one closed mesh, and eight open meshes. - 13
Crochet row 20 with nine open meshes, one closed mesh, three open meshes, one closed mesh, and nine open meshes. Crochet row 21 with 10 open meshes, one closed mesh, one open mesh, one closed mesh, and 10 open meshes. Crochet row 22 with 11 open meshes, one closed mesh, and 11 open meshes. - 14
Crochet rows 23 and 24 with all open meshes, with the exception of the first three and last three double crochet stitches of each row. Crochet row 25 with all closed meshes to finish your doily. Cut your crochet thread and neatly weave your ends in.
