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Lily’s Floral Rectangle Doily – Free Crochet Pattern

May 15, 2021

This is a free crochet pattern for how to crochet a quick and easy floral doily. It’s worked in a small amount of yarn making it perfect for those scraps in your stash!

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Lily's Floral Rectangle Doily, Free Crochet Pattern by EyeLoveKnots

It’s May! You know what that means? Time for April Showers Bring May Flowers! Last year, I shared a Forget me Not Applique, Easy Floral Coasters, an Easy Floral Coin Purse, Lily’s Floral Table Runner and Lily’s Floral Wall Hanging.

crocheted floral mug rug and gift card holder, EyeLoveKnots, Lily's Floral Mug Rug, Lily's Floral Gift Card Holder

So far this month, we’ve got Lily’s Floral Mug Rug, and Lily’s Floral Gift Card Holder.

crocheted floral doily, EyeLoveKnots, Lily's Floral Rectangle Doily

The goal with this doily was actually a square because I wanted to make a table runner with them. Because the flower is not equal widthwise and lengthwise, it ended up being a rectangle. At first, I was a little bummed, but then I started thinking about it, and it can still just as easily be worked up into a table runner by making many and sewing them together! And it makes a really lovely doily that can easily be made larger by repeating the last two rows.

crocheted floral doily with coffee mug, EyeLoveKnots, Lily's Floral Rectangle Doily

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Materials:

  • 47 Yards Total of Worsted Weight Yarn – I used WeCrochet Dishie in Bumblebee (Flower Center, 12 yards), Begonia (Petals, 12 yards), Honeydew (Leaves, 4 yards) and White (19 yards).
  • H8/5mm Crochet Hook
  • Tapestry Needle for Weaving in Ends
  • Optional, Jewelry Pliers

Material Notes:

Yarn Alternatives to Dishie: Lily Sugar n Cream, Red Heart’s Smoothie

The gauge and finished size is not essential for this project. I am using cotton because it’s durable, and machine washes and dries well. If you intend on using with warm or moist items, I recommend the cotton (or wool), otherwise any fiber works. Cotton yarn will appear thinner and have more definition than acrylic so it’s possible a worsted weight acrylic yarn would produce a slightly larger doily.

I usually recommend jewelry pliers to use to help weave in ends, as cotton yarn can be quite tough on the fingers when weaving in with just fingers and a tapestry needle. Dishie Yarn is really smooth, and easy to weave the yarn in and out of.

Time Spent:

  • Flower: Just over 15 minutes each.
  • Doily: About an hour.

Measurements:

  • Flower: Taken from the position of one petal at the top center, 3.63″ wide by 4.13″ from tip of top petal to tip of bottom petal
  • Doily: 7.5″ Wide by 6.25″ Tall

Abbreviations (US Terms):

  • SC – Single Crochet (Photo Tutorial)
  • DC – Double Crochet (Photo Tutorial)
  • HDC – Half Double Crochet (Photo Tutorial)
  • TC – Treble/Triple Crochet (Yarn over twice initially, and yarn over and pull through an extra time)

Pattern Notes:

Beginning chain does not count as a stitch.

Join to the first stitch of the round, not the beginning chain.

How I worked my yarn color change: after joining, turn to the new working side. Pull the new color through, then pull the original color tight (it will disappear).

You can also work in the more traditional ways of pulling new color through in the last yarn over of the previous stitch (I do have a basic photo tutorial if needed – How to Change Yarn Colors in Crochet) or fastening off the center color, and rejoining the new color in any stitch, but I find the way I did it much easier, and it hides the color change.

I work my increases a little different than most, and that is that the first stitch from the first set of increases is done in the first stitch of the round, which will appear just to left of the beginning chain, then the round will be worked as normal, and the final stitch of the round will be the second stitch of the first set of increases, and it will be worked into the same stitch as the first, and appear just to the right of the beginning chain. You can see a photo tutorial of this in my How to Keep a Straight Seam post.

Though there are only three rounds in the flower, and a straight seam isn’t really an issue, this is my preferred method – you can work in your preferred increase method for the center as long as you end up with 24 stitches.

Invisible join is recommended to use at the end. I have a photo tutorial -> How to Make an Invisible Join. I did not do this join, and I’m kicking myself a bit because the join is noticeable as it pulls the fabric. An invisible join will look seamless.

crocheted floral doily, EyeLoveKnots, Lily's Floral Rectangle Doily

Flower:

In Yellow, chain 5. Slip stitch to the first chain to form a ring. Chain 1. Work 12 DC into the ring. Join. (12 DC)

R2: Chain 2. DC into the 1st DC, 2 DC into each of the next 11 DC, DC into the same DC as the 1st. Join with Pink, and fasten off Yellow. (24 DC)

R3: In Pink, chain 1. SC into the 1st stitch, skip the next stitch, (3 DC, chain 2, 3 DC) into the next stitch, skip the next stitch, [SC into the next stitch, skip the next stitch, (3 DC, chain 2, 3 DC) into the next stitch, skip the next stitch] 5x. Join with Green, and fasten off Pink. (6 Petals, 6 SC)

crocheted floral doily with green candle, EyeLoveKnots, Lily's Floral Rectangle Doily

Continue On For Doily:

R4: In Green, chain 6 (counts as a HDC + chain 4), [SC into the next petal chain space, chain 4, (TC, chain 3, TC) into the next SC, chain 4] 2x, SC into the next petal chain space, chain 4, HDC into the next SC, chain 4, [SC into the next petal chain space, chain 4, (TC, chain 3, TC) into the next SC, chain 4] 2x, SC into the next petal chain space, chain 4. Join to the 2nd chain.

R5: Chain 1. HDC into the 1st stitch, [HDC across to the next chain space, (2 DC, chain 3, 2 DC) into the chain space] 4x, HDC across. Join with White, and fasten off Green.

R6: In White, chain 1. HDC into the 1st stitch, (chain 1, skip 1 stitch, HDC into the next stitch) 6x, (DC, chain 3, DC) into the chain space, [HDC into the next HDC, (chain 1, skip 1 stitch, HDC into the next stitch) 7x, (DC, chain 3, DC) into the chain space, HDC into the next HDC], (chain 1, skip 1 stitch, HDC into the next stitch) 12x, [HDC into the next HDC, (chain 1, skip 1 stitch, HDC into the next stitch) 7x, (DC, chain 3, DC) into the chain space, HDC into the next HDC], (chain 1, skip 1 stitch, HDC into the next stitch) 5x, chain 1, skip 1 stitch. Join.

R7: Chain 1. HDC into the 1st stitch, [HDC across to the next chain space, (DC, chain 3, DC) into the chain space] 4x, HDC across. Join.

*If you would like your doily to be larger, you can simply repeat the last two rows increasing the number of stitches as you go.

Fasten off, and weave in ends. Block if desired – I did not block, I just finger pressed.

crocheted floral doily, EyeLoveKnots, Lily's Floral Rectangle Doily

Please feel free to make and sell your own Lily’s Floral Rectangle Doily, but please DO NOT claim this pattern as your own nor should you sell my pattern, and DO NOT re-publish my photos as your own. DO NOT copy and paste my pattern anywhere, link to it instead.

crocheted floral doily with Gardenia scented green candle, EyeLoveKnots, Lily's Floral Rectangle Doily

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Filed Under: Free Crochet Patterns, Home Decor, Spring DIYs Tagged With: April Showers Bring May Flowers, Bedroom, Cotton, Dining Room, DIY Home Decor, Doily, Floral, Free Crochet Pattern, Gift for Gardener, Green, H8/5mm Hook, Lacy Crochet, Lilys Floral, Living Room, Mug Rug, Pink, Spring, Spring Decor, Spring DIY, Spring Home Decor, Stashbuster, Under an Hour, WeCrochet, WeCrochet Dishie, White, Worsted Weight Yarn, Yellow

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Comments

  1. Dee | Grammy's Grid says

    May 16, 2021 at 2:35 pm

    Very pretty! Thanks so much for linking up with me at the Unlimited Link Party 26.

    Reply
  2. Donna @ Modern on Monticello says

    May 25, 2021 at 1:02 pm

    The floral pattern is so pretty. Thanks for sharing it. Makes me wish again I knew more about crocheting. #HomeMattersParty

    Reply
    • Alexandra says

      May 30, 2021 at 11:28 pm

      Thank you, Donna! Never too late to learn 😉

      Reply
  3. Vicki says

    October 11, 2022 at 1:33 pm

    Question about Lily’s Floral Rectangle Doily or Mug Rug

    I really LOVE this crochet pattern and appreciate your sharing with everyone.

    I’m at a standstill on the Green ROW 5… How do you get all of thesitches in each of the chain spaces…. All that the directions say is “HDC across to the next chain space and do the next corner”…. how many DC or HDC do you put in each of the chain spaces? The picture shows the chain spaces filled with stitches but the directions don’t indicate how many stitches are in each chain space to create the pretty green border around the center flower.

    I’m sure I’m mis-reading or just not understanding how to create the row of green stitches and I would really appreciate any help you can give me. I was hoping to make these for my friends and family for Christmas.

    Thanks in Advance for the help.

    Reply
    • Alexandra says

      October 11, 2022 at 1:45 pm

      So glad you like it, Vicki! What a lovely gift idea! Row 5 is 1 half double crochet worked into each stitch, and there are 4 chains here.

      Reply

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