Hairpin lace help needed!

[SuperMom]

I am new to hairpin lace and recently completed a shawl.  I was looking on Etsy and found another shawl I'd love to try to make.

 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/89433853/hairpin-lace-shawl-winters-suns?ref=af_you_favitem

 

Can anyone direct me on how to make the flower looking center?  I can wing my way through the 'square' part, but I'm not sure how to connect them in the middle to make a flower design.

 

 

**Caveat**  I did contact the seller to see if this was a pattern I could obtain/purchase, and this was her response...

 

Hello Samantha,
Thank you for your interest to my work. I am glad that my shawl so liked you. I could write you how to make the circles, but you say you're new to knitting with hairpin. I have no ready pattern by which you can to knit. I though want to sell the shawl, not the pattern.

If I can help you with anything yet, please write me once again.
Blessings!
Svetlana

[Avon Lady]

Is the seller aware that hairpin lace is also crocheted?  Check here on the Ville for patterns, and also on crochetpatterncentral.  Maybe it will be on one or the other.

[magiccrochetfan]

I would look around on the Stitch Diva website.  there is the pattern Klimt http://www.stitchdiva.com/tutorials/hairpin-lace/klimt which is made of circles, so you should be able to get construction ideas from that.  Also I really haven't looked at  the tutorials, there may be ideas there that you can use for circles.  

[Granny Square]

Based on the seller's name, I'm guessing her native language is Russian.  Knit and crochet are the same word in Russian, as I understand it's said 'x with hook' or 'x with needles'.

 

I wonder if those flowers could be made with a daisy loom thing.  You can make one yourself with a piece of flexible cardboard with notches cut into the sides.

 

edit, I'm not finding a square loom, but it looks just like the round one at this site (the one that looks like a giant gear), except the notches are cut around a square.  I still have a round and square one I cut out of a magazine eons ago.

http://cultofcrochet.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/fun-and-free-flower-loom/

[SuperMom]

Thanks guys.  I think I might just have to experiment with the hairpin to try to get the circle in the middle.

 

On another note,  I've never seen a flower loom before - and I had always wondered how those were made.  I have an old old old flower afghan that my mother in law made before she passed away, and I never knew how it was made!

I actually have the knifty knitter loom (set of 4), and the smallest one is probably the perfect size to make flowers.  I bet I could figure out how to attach them to make a shawl also.

 

(I make shawls to donate to our churchs prayer shawl ministry, so I'm always looking for ways to turn things into shawls! )