Fill the table with garden color using Newest in Floral Doilies—Coats & Clark Book No. 268!

This 1950 booklet introduces decorator colors in Size 20 Three Cord cotton, with eleven floral doilies and small table pieces. Intermediate crocheters will find applied blossoms, shaded petals, and green “foliage” grounds—many in Nile Green, Beauty Pink, and shaded yellows, lavenders, and roses.

Featured designs include:

• Tulip Varieties FD-437 – 15" green web with shaded tulips (front cover)
• Wild Rose Scallops FD-440 – 10½–12" pink roses on Nile Green
• Rose Bouquet FD-448 – oval about 12" x 19½"
• Flower Cartwheel FD-441
• Floral Temptation FD-446
• Heavenly Blue FD-436 – motifs for a 15½" x 19" place mat and 9¾" napkin
• Daisy Well FD-443
• Viola Cornuta FD-447
• Sweet William FD-439 (back cover)
• Petunias FD-442 (back cover)
• Coreopsis FD-445 – 15" yellow blossoms on Hunter’s Green (back cover)

Patterns include thread-and-hook charts, joining diagrams, and starching notes. A bright vintage booklet for anyone collecting mid-century floral thread crochet.