For the longest time, I was intimidated by lace patterns. Once I took a leap and tried a few, I was pleasantly surprise by how lace patterns are built with the use of simple stitches.

The definition I found for lace says that it is a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine. Crochet builds this netlike fabric with the basic stitches crocheters first learn. In most cases, if you...