Materials required:

• Size 40 mercerised crochet cotton
• 20 clean glass beads (dirty beads mark the cotton)
• 0.9mm crochet hook

Description from web site: Jug and bowl covers are a pretty and practical way to keep annoying insects away from your juice, milk and sugar. In the picture above the cover is shown on a sugar bowl and a milk jug. They are quick to make and are very acceptable presents. Leave off the beads and you have a nice small doily.

The special aspect of this cover is the new rose I have created for the centre. All the Irish Crochet roses I have seen have an even number of petals in each round and all the petals lie one-behind-the-other. Real roses are not like that, they have five petals in each round and successive rounds overlap. The lovely, old-fashioned ‘globular’ effect that this experiment produced reminded me of Bourbon roses - hence its name.

Just in case you want them, there are close-up pictures of the front and back of the rose part, in stages.