Sanity's porthole crochet is more identical than the original

It's taken me a few weeks, sorry, but I finally got around to putting up the new porthole crochet 'doilies' that Sheila of NB Sanity made for me.  Thanks, Sheila!

Bruce and Sheila passed by Granny a couple of months back at Shardlow when they spotted my unusual window crochet, and wrote asking for a photo of it so that Sheila could try duplicating it.  (She's got a fascination with porthole doilies.)

To make it easier I sent her the whole thing, and was surprised to get four identical replacements in the mail a couple of weeks later.  The Doily Mail, so to speak. (sorry)

You can see the brown original (over ten years old) on the left, and one of Sheila's bright, white simulacra on the right. 

It's an excellent copy; they are pretty much identical.   Except that, if anything, Sheila's copy is in some ways even more identical to the the original than the other three originals are!

Sheila's gallery of porthole doilies is here.  Expect to pay about £10 each if you want her to make you one. 

I got off rather more cheaply, mainly because mine acted as her model, and the 'Granny Buttons' design has now been added to her doily gallery.

Anyway, thanks again, Sheila.

Comments

[Sheila Napier]

Thanks for the plug, Andrew. Glad you like them.

We have seen a paper doily used in a porthole: it gets pretty manky quite quickly from condensation, though.

All the best

Sheila

[Fiona]

To be thrifty you could just glue up a paper one!