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Hairpin Lace Place Mat Pattern #S-476
Hairpin lace place mat in Fudge Brown with gold metallic heading, six basic hairpin lace strips joined together and finished with a crocheted border. Originally published in Coats & Clark's O.N.T. #303, Modern Trends.
Materials
- Milwards Steel Crochet Hook · No. 2/0 (double zero)
- Hairpin lace staple · 1% inches wide
Pattern instructions
Strip
With Fudge Brown make a strip of Basic Hairpin Lace, see patternbook page, having 40 loops on each side of staple. Break off.
Make 5 more strips the same way.
Heading
Keeping the twist in all loops, attach gold metallic thread to first loop, sc in same loop, * ch2, sc in next loop. Repeat from * across. Break off.
Complete other side to correspond.
Join Strips
Attach Fudge Brown to first sp on any strip, sc in same place, ch, sc in first sp on next strip, * ch 1, sc in next sp on first strip, ch 1, sc in next so on second strip. Repeat from * across. Break off.
Join remaining strips the same way.
Border
Attach Fudge Brown to center of narrow end, sc closely around mat, making 3 sc in each corner. Join.
Sc in each sc around, making 3 sc in center sc at each corner. Join. Break off at end of 7th rnd. Block to measurements.
