Expert: Marla - 12/13/2008

Question
I am on the last row of a wheat doily. There are picots worked around it. The directions talk about making the first picot then it say[V-st of dc, ch 6, sc in 5th ch from hook (picot), ch e and dc in next V-st] 7 times. First off what is this V-st of dc, it is worded strangely. I did what I thought was what they were asking and ended up with 9 picots where in the picture there are 8. I did take a pictures of the 15th row and my attempt at row 16. If you could send me an email I could forward those two pics and also a picture of the instructions for row 15 and 16. If you can, could you re-write row 16 so I can understand what they are looking for? Thank you. A lot to ask I know.I will see if I can attach the picture of row 15 just in case I can't get the other two pictures to you. Sorry I put the picture in but it kept asking for an Image Title and I didn't know what that was. I tried doily but it didn't work. So see what you can do. Thanks.

Answer
Hi Burnetta!
Thanks for asking! I know somewhere I have a pattern for a wheat doily. In fact I made one.Please let me know where you found it, because I have a lot of doily patterns  in numerous leaflets, like "Leisure Arts", American  School of Needlework, and  "star"  (old leaflets), etc. Then if I have it, you won't have to send me the pattern. The V stitches that I have done is when you dc in a st like a sc, then you ch once or twice, then dc in the same st, making it look like a "V". Hope to hear from you soon.

Marla