Here is a step-by-step crochet tutorial to make the lace doily motif shown in the picture.
This motif uses fine cotton yarn and a 1.5–2.0 mm hook.
🌸 SUPER DETAILED CROCHET PATTERN
For the lace doily motif in your photo
Use:
- Yarn: size 10 cotton crochet thread
- Hook: 1.5–2.0 mm
✅ Round 1 — Center
- Make a magic ring.
- Ch 3 (counts as first dc).
- Work 15 dc into the ring.
- Pull ring tight.
- Sl st to top of ch-3 to close.
➡ Total: 16 dc
✅ Round 2 — Increase round
- Ch 3 (counts as dc).
- Dc in the same stitch (increase).
- In the next stitch: 2 dc.
- Repeat 2 dc in each stitch all the way around.
- Sl st to join.
➡ Total: 32 dc
✅ Round 3 — Small loops
- Ch 1.
- Sc in next stitch, ch 3
- Repeat (sc, ch 3) around the circle.
- Sl st to first sc.
➡ You should now have 16 chain-3 loops, evenly spaced.
✅ Round 4 — Small Petals
You will work into each ch-3 loop.
In each loop:
- Sc
- Ch 2
- 5 dc
- Ch 2
- Sc
Repeat this in every loop around.
Sl st to join.
➡ Creates 16 small shells.
✅ Round 5 — Start the large petals
You will build 8 big petals, so you work on every other shell.
- Sl st into next ch-2 space of a shell.
- Ch 3 (counts as dc).
- Make 7 more dc into the same ch-2 space.
- (You now have 8 dc forming the start of a petal.)
- Skip the next shell completely.
- In the next shell’s ch-2 space, make 8 dc again.
Repeat: (8 dc, skip 1 shell) around 8 times.
Join.
➡ You should now have 8 large petals, each made of 8 dc.
✅ Round 6 — Build height
You work on each 8-dc petal.
- Sl st into first dc if needed.
- Ch 3.
- Dc in each dc across the petal (total 8 dc).
- Between petals, ch 3.
Repeat: (8 dc, ch 3) around.
Join.
✅ Round 7 — Create larger spaces for lace
This round makes the long gaps visible in the photo.
- Ch 3.
- Dc in each of the 8 dc across the petal.
- Between petals: ch 5.
Repeat: (8 dc, ch 5) around.
Join.
➡ Now your motif should have nice open lace gaps between the big petals.
✅ Round 8 — Lace fan edging
This creates the scalloped lace border.
In each ch-5 space between petals, work:
- Sc
- Ch 3
- 3 dc
- Ch 3
- Sc
Repeat this in every ch-5 space.
Sl st to finish off.
🌸 Your motif is now complete!
It should look exactly like the one in your photo —
8 large petals + elegant lacy scallops on the outer edge.
