Large, and I do mean large, pineapple doily! *Updated: pics of moms surprise*

[megan]

Wow! What an amazing doily; I'm sure your mom will love it.

[bythehook]

Gorgeous!

[Tiffany]

It is beautiful! What an amazing Mother's Day gift.

[NancyCA]

WOW! This is absolutely GORGEOUS!!! If your mom doesn't like it, I have a beautiful home for it right here!!!

[mandycrochets]

That's beautiful! I haven't the patience for that, but I sure admire someone who does!

 

Wonderful work! :-)

 

Mandy

[sem464]

That is really pretty!

[crochetrae]

Beautiful work! Those vintage patterns can be a little "challenging"! We've been spoiled by Leisure Arts instructions, I'm afraid. Very nice job!

 

Susan Rae

[MLLORF]

WOW!!!

 

That is soooooooooo pretty. If Mom isn't crazy about it I will play your Mom for a while.

[CraftyChristine]

Sunshine, I used a size 9 hook on the doily.

 

Thanks to everyone for the compliments, they totally made my day along with my moms very gracious thank you!

[threeolivemartini]

your moms face says it all !!... that is priceless ..

[grammatrish]

that's gorgeous! love it!!!

[Samio]

OMG I think I would faint if someone made me that - it is absolutely gorgeous, spectacular, fantastic, splendid, super and I can't think of any other words to describe it

[jingles96]

What a lovely doily and I love your mom's surprise. She must be very pleased with the doily.

[sunshine1977]

Thanks for the info about the needle size! So glad your Mom loved her gift - the pictures were great!

 

Can't wait to get started, but first I have to get some WIP's whittled down!

 

Laurie

[pixie]

The look on your mom's face is priceless! Not to mention the look on Dad's face too! Beautiful job...that doily is magnificent!!!

[Julie]

Christine that is absolutely stunning!! Wow! And your parents look absolutely thrilled, thanks so much for sharing those pictures with us too!

[creativegoodness]

Wow!!! That is so so awesome! I loved seeing the look on your mom's face...priceless!!! It looks great, and you made her so happy!

[sugalily]

Wow!! That's very pretty and big!!

 

Great Job!

[faithpa76]

Your mom looks stunned!! That is just a lovely gift.

[CraftyChristine]

Sunshine, when you get started on this doily, don't let what I wrote in my blog discourage you lol. It really is a (mostly) easy pattern, just very tedious. The end results are definitely worth it though!

[charmingly_wicked]

It is really beautiful Christine! I recently have wanted to start doing doilies, bookmarks, snowflakes, etc. I have so many other things going on right now though. I also am doing a granny square afghan in size 10 cotton thread.

At first, I was just going to do a square to see how the thread would look. Then I got the bright idea to do an afghan. I am starting my 3rd ball of cotton and it only measures 24" x 22". Of course I started it when I couldn't read patterns and only knew how to do a granny square.

But now I see all the wonderful things you can make with it, and I can't wait to get some patterns.

Thanks for being one of the people that inspire me!

[Chiscrochetcrazy]

Really gorgeous:cheer

[Jewels]

awesome doily and I love that you captured her look of surprise and delight!

[sallymander]

Holy Moley......that doily is HUGE!!!! The look on your mom's face in the middle picture is priceless!!!! Nice job!!!

 

[vhanna26]

Great work and a beautiful doily. Your Mom really was thrilled by it.

 

I'm glad to see so much thread crochet lately!