For Crochet Charm Lace, you need crochet motifs, like flowers and leaves. Naturally, I’d love for you to use patterns from my books. There are lots of other motifs to choose from, from birds and butterflies to sea creatures.
With all that choice, what do you do?
You can choose lots of different motifs, for a look the doily above, which I made some years ago for an article at crochetinsider.com.
You can choose a major motif and one or two accent motifs. The main motif from the pink Flower Cloth Scarf (see previous post) is the Twirl Center Rose; Paisley is the accent motif. Find patterns for both these motifs in Crochet Garden.
Or you can strike a balance between the two: several motifs, like in this sample where you see all the variations of Center-or-Not and the Plain Veined Leaf from Crochet Bouquet.
For my Crochet Charm Lace Along project, a table runner, I am going with option 2. After some trial and error, I decided to use the two variations of Perspective Daisy, along with lots of filler circles. At first it was also going to have leaves, but that didn’t work out.
Filler circles are meant to fill in the awkward spaces between motifs that are too small to fit a regular motif into, but too large to be acceptable. Filler circles are one round of sc, hdc, or dc. You will probably make lots of these. Tiny motifs work well for this, too.
On November 5, 2013, look for “Make a Template and Crochet Motifs.”