CRO-TATTED: 1.00 mm Prym/Lacis cro-tat hook with DMC Pearl 5 in white, 502green & 842 light beige brown. This is Doily no.6 from Annies Attic Dainty & Delicate Mini Doilies - found on ebay.

I have the Annies Attic hook and also recently ordered another 1mm and 1.5mm and 2mm Prym hooks from the bottom of the page here. I was happy to have the larger sizes because I’m using DMC Petra 5. Imagine my surprise to find out I was using the 1mm, by mistake. It is a little hard to get all the DMC 5 into the hook without splitting it, so mad at myself for not using one of the medium size hooks. 2mm would be too large for this, and should be used on DMC 3 or other 3 thread.    

 I think if I made it again, I'd look for a reg crochet hook to do the edge, that was just a little larger than the hook on the cro-tat hook, because I have a problem with making my chains to tight when I crochet.

Started Doily No. 6 from Dainty & Delicate Mini Doilies, and just need to make a flower and do the edging on it.   This one will need ironing and spray starch (from the back only) to get the chains to not crumple up.   I'm a little miffed at myself, because I'm using #5 DMC Perle Cotton in #842 Lt Beige Brown, and #5 thread is PERFECT for the Annies hook I have, but I forgot what I was doing and picked up the 1mm Prym I have.   Well, it makes a nice tight ring, which I like, but is just a tiny bit too small and I have to watch that it doesn't miss a bit of the thread, creating a fuzzy spot.   Here's my progress:

CRO-TAT Delicate & Dainty Mini Doily No. 1

Hobby Lobby's Artiste $10 Thread:
110 Country Rose
119 Aspen
202 water lily is a red, pink, white, green variegated

1.00mm Prym cro-tat hook

This small simple looking cro-tat doily took me over a week to make. There is definitely a learning curve to cro-tatting... and here I thought because I could crochet and tat, it would be easy.... So excuse my delirium when I enthusiasticly post 3 pics of my "I can't believe I finally did it" project. Doily no. 1 from Delicate & Dainty Mini Doilies (cro-tat). It's best to use a slinky thread when cro-tatting, and this is Hobby Lobby's ARTISTE, with Prym 1mm cro-hook.

I made this as the first from this book because I thought I’d have it done in an hour or so. Big mistake! If you have this book, save this one till you’ve made some of the others, because getting the chains that go to the rings (green) all the same size is a bear!