SHUTTLE TATTED, 2 shuttles, thrown rings.
Designer given free pattern: Eileen Stafford http://web.archive.org/web/20011117163100/http://www.geoc...

PICTURES ARE IN REVERSE ORDER, BEGIN AT BOTTOM.

UFO RE-STARTED jAN 30, 2017 Started this nearly a year ago and did the first 2 rows, then quickly realized it was way over my head, as a beginner that was still pulling the loop every ds to make sure it still moved! When I got to the third row, I remember why I stopped… the threads were not in the right place and I didn’t know what to do. This year I started again, and saw those threads out of order. My brain was thinking what to do, and I tried the shoelace trick, but after doing about 3 that way, I realized that the tiny single rings were actually thrown rings, and started doing them that way. What a relief! Sooooooo much easier and am now making good progress! I am having plenty of errors, or perhaps some ‘just not the best way to do it“, but am learning so much, as I’m at the perfect place where I can see what I should have been doing and change modes. I have mistakes, but having spent my life chasing perfection, have stopped letting it be a stumbling block for me. When I see a tiny error way back, I leave it if it makes no difference. If I see an error where I skipped a whole chain and went to the next chain, then I know that will foul the count up, so that one gets fixed. In all, I am considering this my ‘learning’ doily, as I’ve never made a doily before and actually enjoying watching myself improve as I go along.

June 2019 So I had a wild idea to finish the nearly finished rnd in another of my UFOs… it should have went fast, but I had one stupid mistake after another, like attaching to a wrong picot, then fraying my thread out… and maybe still could have finished with my thread if I had not discovered I skipped an entire clover… but not until after I cut the threads to tie off. This left me with one option…. to attach new thread to BOTH the ring and chain threads. Well, I did do it, and perhaps in a way that’s not been done, and it is invisible…. even I can’t believe it. I may even make a video to show others how I managed it. Rnd 3 of the clover doily is done.
*Rnd 3 fin June 2, 2019.. what a fiasco…my bad…

July 7, 2019 - get brave enough to start rnd 4.
Finished rnd 4 July 9, 2019. I used a metal shuttle and I had a little more on my bobbin than I needed to do this rnd. Rnd 4 had only the slightest lift here and there, so all seemed well enough.

Aug 18, 2019
However, half thru rnd 5, there is major ruffling. It is curious to know if one just kept going, how it would look in the end. I wonder how she followed these counts and had such a flat doily. The pattern is quite the mystery… I have wondered if allowing the chains to be long and floppy would let them bend into a u more, and so fit, compared to the tight chains that make a hard arch that is unbendable.. I’ve also wondered if it were very ruffly, would it be attractive, like old time ruffled doilies.

Aug 19, 2019
As I study the pattern, I find it curious. As we all know, each round becomes a little larger, BUT, rnd 5 actually uses 12 ds in each chain, while rnd 6 only uses 10, and it is the larger rnd! I would probably come off easier to just switch these 2 rnds with each other, just the chain count I mean! At any rate, I’ve half this rnd done, and wanted to see how it will come out, and dry pinned it to see what were the chances it would work, and it SEEMS like in might.

Aug 25, 2019… so my test block showed that the doily would flatten out, but I really really like the soft wave on the edges, fluterring up and down, and decided to keep it just like it is. The picture does not do it justice.