Description
🦘 AUSSIE FAUNA FILET DOILIES — CROCHET PATTERNS 🦘
Kangaroo · Koala · Kookaburra
Three filet-crochet doilies that put the Australian bush on the table — each animal drawn square by square in filled and open mesh, and worked in timeless white or cream size 10 cotton with a 1.50 mm steel hook. This is heirloom Aussie lace for real tables: under the vase, under the teapot, or watching over the sideboard.
Each doily is a charted filet panel with its own character — not one picture in three sizes:
🦘 KANGAROO DOILY — about 31 x 28 cm, 48 meshes x 42 rows
A kangaroo caught mid-leap: long ear, little forepaw tucked under the chest, the big hind leg stretched into its long foot, and the tail sweeping down behind.
🐨 KOALA DOILY — about 29 x 26 cm, 44 meshes x 40 rows
The koala front-on: two big round ears and a round solid head, with the tall oval nose and the eyes left as open mesh — holes in the lace, the way the old filet portraits were drawn — over a round sitting body.
🪶 KOOKABURRA DOILY — about 31 x 29 cm, 48 meshes x 44 rows
A kookaburra on his branch in profile: the dark eye band drawn as a line of open mesh, the famous long straight beak, a plump body with one curved wing line, and the long tail angling down past the branch.
WHAT YOU GET
✔ Instant-download PDF, 21 pages
✔ A full-page chart for each doily, numbered every 5 meshes and 5 rows
✔ The same charts written out row by row as mesh counts — every row with its turning chain and its check figures (total dc and ch-2 spaces), so you never count a chart square twice
✔ A filet technique section: 4-dc mesh (used consistently throughout), open vs filled mesh, turning chains, reading charts and keeping your count
✔ Thread totals table UP FRONT: two 50 g balls of size 10 cotton (about 310 m in total) make the whole set, with per-doily metres, yards, grams and filled/open mesh counts
✔ A three-round picot edging worked around each panel
✔ Blocking and stiffening instructions with exact finished measurements, plus care notes
✔ US crochet terms with UK equivalents
SKILL LEVEL: Confident intermediate — you should be comfortable with double crochet and chains and working in rows. Filet itself is only two kinds of mesh; the pattern does the counting for you.
YOU’LL NEED: Size 10 crochet cotton (white or cream), 1.50 mm steel crochet hook, yarn needle, pins and a blocking surface. Fabric stiffener is optional.
A note on the pictures: in filet crochet the animal is the solid part — filled squares against open mesh — so these doilies read best on a dark table, exactly as photographed.
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🌿 Crochet Coasters & Mug Rugs Patterns Vol 2 — more Aussie flora designs for the table
🌿 Wedding Lace Crochet Patterns Vol 1 — heirloom lace including doily coasters
Please note: this is a digital pattern PDF — no physical item will be posted. All sales are final on digital downloads, but if anything in the pattern doesn’t add up, message us and we will sort it out together.
Listing photos are AI-generated concept images.
Created with the help of an AI generator.
© Al and Tina — thank you for supporting our Aussie family shop.
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