How to: Broomstick Lace

     To make broomstick lace, you will need a crochet hook, yarn, and a big knitting needle to make your lace hoops. You could also use a pipe or a broomstick to do this, but I wouldn't recommend it ;).

     When I make broomstick lace, I like to use one of these gigantic needles (which are 25mm and 15mm).

     In this example, I'll be using one of the 15mm needles.

    To begin, chain a number divisible by 3. I did 12.

     Pull the loop on your hook to make it bigger, and place it around your knitting needle.

     Insert your crochet hook into the back loop only of the next chain, yarn over, and pull it through.

     Place the loop onto your knitting needle and continue across the row. Like in Tunisian Crochet, this is called the Forward Pass.

     Now pull three loops off of the knitting needle and chain one. I pulled off three loops because I cast on a number divisible by three; if you cast on a number divisible by five, you would pull off five loops.

     Now sc three stitches into the loops. Repeat this throughout the row. This is called the Return Pass.

     One row of broomstick lace will look like this.

     From now on, you can either continue  making broomstick lace, or you can start a row of another stitch.

     After a few rows, your work will look like this.