Flower Doily Crochet Free Pattern | Delilah Rectangle Doily Free Crochet Pattern

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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Crochet a beautiful, lacy, floral doily that’s perfect for scraps and works up quickly. It’s so easy to adjust if you want to make it larger, or make a bunch and sew together for endless projects.

I originally designed this crochet flower gift card holder for April Showers Bring May Flowers 2021!

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.

If you would like to turn it into a square, check out my Delilah Afghan Square over on my Yarn Crafts & Coffee blog.

Some alternate ideas for this rectangle:

• Make 1 in cotton yarn for a doily or oversized coaster
• Make 1 in any fiber for a wall hanging
• Make several and sew together to create a tote bag, rug, blanket and so much more
• Experiment with different weight yarns to get different sizes for endless possibilities!

You May Also Like These:

Seems I’m just addicted to this cute crochet flower motif in the Spring!

You may enjoy some of these other fun, free crochet patterns in the Delilah Series:

Delilah Mug Rug and Delilah Gift Card Holder

Delilah Triangle Shawl

Delilah Hoop Earrings

Delilah Table Runner & Delilah Wall Hanging

Delilah Coasters

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Materials:

• 35 Yards Total of Worsted Weight Yarn – I used WeCrochet Dishie in Bumblebee (Flower Center, 6 yards), Begonia (Petals, 6 yards), Honeydew (Leaves, 4 yards) and White (19 yards).
• H8/5mm Crochet Hook
• Tapestry Needle for Weaving in Ends
• Optional, Jewelry Pliers

Material Notes:

Depending on the project you’ll be working with this rectangle, the yarn options can vary, but they’re practically endless. Feel to use your favorite worsted weight yarn, but I’ll provide some ideas for a couple projects:

For things like an afghan, scarf and shawl, acrylic yarn, like the Lion Brand Pound of Love I used in my video, is a good choice. For a cozier option, go with a wool blend, like Lion Brand Wool Ease or Cascade Pacific. For a warm weather option, a cotton blend, like Berroco Modern Cotton or Lion Brand Made with Love are great choices.

For things like a tote bag, washcloth or table runner, a 100% cotton yarn, like Circulo Natural Cotton Maxcolor 4/6, WeCrochet Dishie, Queensland Coastal Cotton or Lion Brand 24/7 Cotton is what I would recommend. These are nice, durable options that wear and machine wash well and are also colorfast (not all cotton yarns are).

Cotton yarn will appear thinner and have more definition than acrylic so it’s possible a worsted weight acrylic yarn would produce a slightly smaller doily so you may want to go up a hook size.

I love my ergonomic clay hooks from SiennasBowtique and BronzeShepherdStudio! They both have so many fun designs. I have several from each shop because they’re so darn cute and nice to hold onto! We also have lots of beautiful, handcrafted crochet hooks in our Yarn Crafts and Coffee Yarn Shop as well!

Jewelry Pliers are an excellent tool 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.

Time Spent:

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

Measurements:

The flower measurement is taken from the position of one petal at the top center. Petal to petal is measured from the tip of a top petal directly across to the tip of a bottom petal. Width is measured from the left edge of the left side petals directly across to the right edge of the right side petals.

• In Cotton: Flower: 4 1/8” Petal to Petal by 3 5/8” Wide; Doily: 7 1/2” Wide by 6 1/4” Tall
• In Acrylic: Flower: 3 7/8” Petal to Petal by 3 1/2” Wide; Doily: 7 1/4” Wide by 6” Tall

Gauge – Not Essential:

Measured after Round 2 aka the Center of the Flower, measure the diameter.

• In Cotton Yarn = 2 1/2”
• In Acrylic Yarn = 2 1/4”

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.

When working rounds 5 and 7, you may opt to crochet directly into the chain itself (this is how I worked round 5 for a defined little ridge) or into the chain space itself (this is how I worked round 7 – make sure to work 1 stitch per chain).

If you would like your doily to be larger, you can simply repeat the last two rounds increasing the number of stitches as you go. The shaping works itself out by then so you can keep the corner stitches as half double crochets, the same as the rest of the stitches, and either a chain 2 for a more rounded corner or a chain 3 for a more square corner. If the shape is wonky in the end, block for crisp results.

With the 2025 update, Round 4 for the leaves has been as well with the corners now having 4 stitches in total, rather than 2. I will leave the original instructions in the pattern as “old R4”, and you can choose which version you like better. The updated one helps a ton with shaping so it lays flatter and straighter, and just the overall flow of the row, but both are beautiful options! If the shape is wonky, you can easily block it.

Flower Doily Video Tutorial:

Flower Doily Free Crochet Pattern:

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

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

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)

Continue On For Doily:

Old 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.

New R4: In Green, chain 5 (counts as a TR + chain 2), SC into the next petal chain space, chain 2, (2 TR, chain 3, 2 TR) into the next SC, chain 2, SC into the next petal chain space, chain 2, HDC into the next SC, chain 2, SC into the next petal chain space, chain 2, (2 TR, chain 3, 2 TR) into the next SC, chain 2, SC into the next petal chain space, chain 2, (2 TR, chain 3, 2 TR) into the next SC, chain 2, SC into the next petal chain space, chain 2, HDC into the next SC, chain 2, SC into the next petal chain space, chain 2, (2 TR, chain 3, 1 TR) into the next SC, which will be where the beginning chain is. Join to the 3rd chain of the beginning 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.

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