19 Best Crochet Oval Doily Patterns
Hello everyone! Today I have a list of 19 Best Oval Doily Patterns You Need to Try Today!
This post is all about the best oval shaped doilies that I have found, and they’re all FREE!
Sometimes you get a little bored making circular doilies and you just need to change it up a bit.
Maybe you even feel like challenging yourself and want to learn how a doily shape is formed in crochet.
Either way, I got you covered! These are 19 of the best crochet oval doilies that I could find (mostly on Pinterest).
For some reason, most free doily patterns are just diagrams with limited written instructions. But with a little bit of practice and patience you will be able to make these yourself!
I personally crocheted ALL of these doilies, so trust me when I say these are some of the coolest and best oval doilies I could find!
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What Do You Even Do With Doilies?
Honestly doilies don’t serve any sort of practical function. They’re used as vintage decoration pieces for tables and under special objects but I like to make these as art pieces.
You can frame your doilies if you can find a frame large enough, and they make really neat wall art.
I’ve also seen people take small doilies and patch holes in jeans or other articles of clothing with them.
Why Does My Doily Look So Bunched Up When I’m Done?
Ahh. The fallen nature of crochet thread. I’m just kidding, but almost ALL crochet thread projects need to be blocked.
Blocking your doily straightens them out and helps your beautiful piece lay flat so everyone can admire your work and say how cool you are.
Some people like them to be stiff, but you need a starch solution to do that.
I like to soak my doilies in a bowl of water, pat out the excess water with a towel, and with a foam blocking board, I stretch it out using pins.
Allow your doily to dry for 24-48 hours or until totally dry, remove the pins and the doily is yours to use!
Materials Needed for Your Doily:
- Crochet thread size 10 (or smaller if you want)
- 1.65mm crochet hook (or one that matches your thread)
- Tapestry Needle (to weave in ends)
- Scissors
- Foam Blocking Board and Pins
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Alright, let’s start our list of 19 Best Crochet Oval Doily Patterns!
#1 Oval Flower Doily Pattern
First on our list is the Oval Flower Doily from Kristine’s Crochets. This is a very unique oval shape, as it is more pointed on the ends! She has written instructions and a video so you can follow along. The doily has an eight petaled flower in the middle and then grows out into a mesh like pattern. She also has two size options that you can choose when making this doily. The one pictured above is the larger size.
#2 Simple Mesh Oval Doily
The Simple Mesh Oval Doily is a 13 round oval doily. You’ll be crocheting mesh like stitches in the body of the doily and then create a scalloped, treble crochet border.
This is from a Spanish crochet magazine, and there are some written instructions, but you’ll need Google to translate the picture for you. Start by chaining 54, turning and double crocheting in the 9th chain from your hook. You can then follow the diagram to complete the doily.
#3 Free Oval Doily Pattern
The Free Oval Doily Pattern is a crochet diagram that I found on Pinterest. Start with a chain of 43, turn and double crochet into the 5th chain from your hook. This crochet oval doily is imbued with shell stitches throughout.
#4 Crochet Oval Hearts Doily
The Crochet Oval Hearts Doily is from a German magazine, and similar to #2 on this list, you’ll need to use Google to translate the written instructions, but there is a diagram you can follow.
#5 Large Oval Leaves Doily
This oval doily is a big one, I was fooled and thought, oh 17 rounds can’t be that bad! It’s all treble crochets, so that’s what makes this doily huge, quickly. It’s a really neat design, with leaves shooting out from the ovals center line, just make sure you have enough thread!
#6 Wispweave Oval Doily
Julia Hart of draiguna.com strikes again! Her doilies are so so beautiful. This doily is based off of her original Wispweave Doily, but she changed the pattern to create an oval shape. She has step by step instructions with pics to go by. You’ll need to be comfortable making textured stitches, especially in the beginning.
#7 Three Petaled Oval Doily
The 3 Petaled Oval Doily was a very relaxing doily to make. It’s a simple but lovely design with three petaled flowers crocheted throughout the mesh body of the doily. The trim is another Flower motif with 4 double crochet clusters and a picot chain.
#8 Lacy Oval Doily
This doily has a simple pattern that looks absolutely stunning. You can adjust the length as needed, but I followed the pattern exactly as shown. Unfortunately the diagram doesn’t show the full starting chain, but if I did my math correctly, it should be a chain of 114! Just make sure to count your squares when you start the first row, you should have 37 squares total.
#9 Lighting Crochet Oval Doily
I’m not actually sure what the name of this doily is, but I’m calling it the Lightning doily because the edging (and maybe my color choice) reminded me of fingers of lightning. You’ll have to cut your thread after the 3rd row and then start again on one of the oval points.
#10 Large Crochet Oval Doily
This doily is massive! I had no idea how big it was going to be, but I just kept rolling with it because I’m no quitter. Not only is this a big doily, but you’re going to have to cut your thread in order to attach the large border to the center. It’s a breathtaking design for sure, just male sure you have enough boards to block it!
#11 Small Floral Design Crochet Doily
The Small Floral Design Crochet Doily is such a fun design and doily to make. It’s only 17 rounds long and quickly completed. I think the floral design in this one is really cool and interesting.
#12 Polish Oval Napkin
The Polish Oval Napkin is great because you can adjust the length at the beginning to make it as long as you’d like. The center is a floral cluster of 4 treble crochets. It then extends out into V stitches and a variety of other long stitches towards the edge.
#13 Another Polish Crochet Doily
I couldn’t think of another name for this doily, so many of them go unnamed! This one however is in Polish again. I think these are leaf motifs and a flower or heart like Motif on the edges of the doily. It’s an amazing design and I actually enjoyed doing this one.
#14 Star Flower Oval Doily
This doily is gorgeous but a little challenging towards the last two rounds, or at least I thought it was! Round 11 kind of reminds me of doing a star stitch, but it’s with treble crochets. So it’s a lot of loops on your hook to manage and pull through if you’re not used to doing that.
#15 Oval Pineapple Doily
If you like pineapple motifs then you’ll enjoy making this oval doily! This was a really fun doily to make. You’ll have to be ok with cutting your thread and restarting in different places in order for the motifs to work correctly.
#16 Elegant Diamond Oval Doily
This doily has an elegant diamond design on both sides of the oval. I really loved this design, but I realized as I was working on the ends of the oval, the ends were not symmetrical, which I thought was strange! I think it would be ok to make them both a reflection of the other, but I just followed the diagram as shown and it still turned out amazing!
#17 Oval Mat Doily
This is a doily that’ll challenge your stitch making skills. It has a very beautiful flower motif throughout, but in order to make the petals, you have to do a more complicated stitch. Starting at round 5, you will make these complex petals, and honestly I was a little confused, but determined to figure the diagram out.
Count the yarn overs starting at the bottom and then up the side of the first petal. You should see 6 yarn overs (these look like diagonal lines in the stitches). You need to act like you’re making a double crochet and then make a 3 double treble cluster into the “top” of the double crochet (so the first yarn over spot on the body of the double crochet like leg thing). You’re going to have a whole bunch of loops on your hook while you’re doing this btw.
After your make your 3 double treble crochet clusters for the petal, you must pull through 2 loops twice to finish the treble crochet.
It’s tricky but you can do it!
#18 Oval Leaf Doily
So this oval doily has a repeat count available so you can make this as long as you want. If you want to make yours exactly how mine is pictured, you should start with a ch 94 and then double crochet into the 7th ch away.
I love how the leaves work up in this pattern, or maybe they’re feathers? Either way, it’s a wonderful pattern with only 17 rounds. The little circles are also picots. I just made them ch 3 picots in mine.
#19 French Flower Oval Doily
The last crochet oval doily is the French Flower Oval Doily. This beautiful doily has a floral center, surrounded by a sea of mesh stitches. The mesh stitches are then bordered by a series of 3 double treble crochet clusters. Finally, the edge of this doily consists of a repeated 6 pointed star.
That’s it for this list of 19 Best Crochet Oval Doilies!
I hope you found some that inspire you to make one of your own!
Until next time!