How to Crochet Gorgeous Thaalpos for Home Decor
This video tutorial guides you through crocheting a multi-colored floral thalpos perfect for decorating your dining tables. Using four-ply wool and a 12-number crochet hook, you’ll learn to create a beautiful design with a maroon base, yellow petals, and a white or green border. The video details various stitches, including double and single crochet, to form the decorative patterns. Follow through with us for that tutorial!
Gorgeous Crochet Thalpos Tutorial
This video offers a comprehensive tutorial on crocheting a beautiful floral doily or table mat. The project uses three different colors of wool and a 12-number crochet hook.
- Starting the Base: The process begins with maroon wool, forming a slip knot, and creating a chain of 10 stitches, which are then joined with a slip stitch to form a round.
- First and Second Rounds: The first round involves crocheting 20 double crochets into the initial round. The second round increases the stitch count by making two double crochets in each stitch, resulting in 40 double crochets.
- Third Round: This round introduces a pattern of three double crochets followed by one chain stitch, repeated throughout.
- Adding Yellow Color (Petals – Part 1): Yellow wool is attached in the one-chain stitch space from the previous round. A chain of five is created and joined with a single crochet in the next chain space. This leads into making three double crochets, followed by a chain of 10, and then three more double crochets in the same chain space, a pattern repeated for all sections.
- Creating Petals (Part 2): Within each 10-chain space, 16 double crochets are crocheted – eight, then a chain of two, and then the remaining eight double crochets. Each finished petal is joined to the center with a slip stitch.
- Adding White/Green Color (Border): White or green yarn is attached, skipping three stitches on either side of the chain space. The border involves chaining three, making a double crochet where the two-chain stitch was previously made, chaining four, another double crochet in the same spot, and chaining three. This is followed by skipping three yellow stitches and making a single crochet, then chaining four and joining with the next petal.
- Filling in the Border (Part 1): In each four-chain space, 10 double crochets are made, followed by a slip stitch into the three-chain space below. This alternates with making eight double crochets in the next four-chain space, also slip-stitched into the three-chain space below.
- Filling in the Border (Part 2): Sections with 10 double crochets are filled with a pattern of one double crochet followed by one chain stitch in each stitch. For sections with eight double crochets, the first and last two stitches are skipped, and three single crochets are made in the middle three double crochets.
- Final Rounds: The pattern continues with two chains, one double crochet on top of a double crochet, and two double crochets in the chain space for certain sections. For single crochet sections, a slip stitch is made in the middle. The very last round involves a chain of three and a single crochet in the same chain space, then alternating with two single crochets without the three-chain in subsequent chain spaces.
