The Mary Frances knitting and crocheting book
CHAPTER XXXVII
THE MAGIC PAPER (CONTINUED)
THESE are the instructions which were found on the paper which the Queen of All Fairies sent to Mary Frances by the fairy, Fairly Flew.
INSTRUCTIONS
NOTE TO BEGINNERS: Before attempting to make any of the following articles, make those given in the story part of this book.
The articles that follow need not be made in the order given.
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN CROCHETING AND KNITTING
When you look at the directions usually given for making crocheted and knitted articles you will find the names of the stitches abbreviated. Although _abbreviations are not used in this book_, it is well to know those in the following list:
sc. single crochet dc. double crochet tr.c. treble crochet sl.st. slip stitch ch.st. chain stitch st. stitch k knit *——* repeat directions between stars
NOTE.—In order to become familiar with these abbreviations—think of single crochet as “sc.”, and of double crochet as “dc.” Instead of using the words, use the letters when you read the directions. Say “2 s-c’s” or “3 d-c’s”; not 2 single crochets, or 3 double crochets.
TREBLE CROCHET
In making Treble Crochet make about 15 chain stitches. Skip 3 chains. Wrap the yarn around the needle _twice_, before putting hook through the chain stitch. Wrap, and draw yarn through chain stitch. Wrap, and draw yarn through 2 loops. Wrap, and draw yarn through 2 loops. Wrap, and draw through 2 loops.
INFANT DOLL’S CROCHETED SOCKS
(See pictures opposite pages 136 and 200—color plates)
Material: Three-fold Saxony wool. Pink or blue (mercerized) silk for trimming. Bone crochet hook No. 2.
Directions:
The work is begun with the ankle part.
1. Chain 15; that is, make 15 chain stitches.
2. Skip 1 chain and put 1 single crochet in each of the 14 stitches. Chain 1 to use in turning.
3. Taking the back thread only, make 1 single crochet in each of the 14 single crochets. The two rows just made will form a rib. This kind of rib is called “slipper stitch.” Make 1 chain in turning.
4. Make 2 more ribs like the one just made. Make 1 chain in turning.
5. Make 8 single crochet and 1 chain stitch.
Make 8 single crochet. These two rows of single crochet will form a shorter rib. Make 1 chain stitch.
6. Make 8 more ribs on the 8 stitches.
7. Join the last row of stitches with 8 of the first chain stitches made, using slip stitch.
To Form the Foot:
8. Put 1 single crochet in each stitch around the bottom of the part just made, taking up both threads.
9. Make 4 more rows.
10. Fold sock together from toe to back, and crochet together with slip stitch.
To Make the Scallops:
1. Fasten the wool into the top of the sock at the back, and make 1 single crochet.
2. Put 4 double crochets in the top of the next rib.
3. Put 1 single crochet in the top of the next rib.
4. Repeat No. 2 and 3 around the top of the sock. Break wool and fasten.
5. Fasten the trimming silk into the top of the scallop at the back of the sock. Make 1 single crochet.
6. Make 5 double crochets in the single crochet stitch between the scallops of wool.
7. Repeat No. 5 and 6 around top of sock. Fasten the silk.
To Make the Runner.—With the silk make about 35 chain stitches. Run these through the top of the sock at the bottom of the white scallops and fasten a small tassel on each end of the runner.
For trimming, thread a sewing needle with the pink silk and make 4 cross stitches on the center rib. Make 1 cross stitch on each side of the second cross stitch from the top cross stitch.
INFANT DOLL’S CROCHETED CAP
(See picture opposite page 136)
Material: Three-fold pink or white Saxony, with three-fold deep pink Saxony for trimming. Bone crochet hook No. 2.
Directions:
1. Chain 3; that is, make 3 chain stitches. Join in a ring with slip stitch.
2. Chain 3, and make 16 double crochets in the ring. Join last double crochet with slip stitch to the top stitch of the 3 chain stitches. This makes the first row.
3. Second row: Chain 3. Make 2 double crochets in each stitch of first row, taking back thread (back loop of stitch) only. Join.
4. Third row: Chain 3, and make 1 double crochet in the first stitch of the row below. Make 2 double crochets in the second stitch. Continue to do this to end of row. Join.
5. Fourth row: Chain 3 and make 2 double in every third stitch. (Make 1 double crochet in the other stitches.) Join.
6. Fifth row: Make 2 double crochets in every fourth stitch.
7. Sixth row: Make 1 double crochet in each stitch of fifth row. Break off the yarn and fasten end.
8. Seventh row: In the ninth stitch from joining, fasten yarn and make 3 chain stitches.
9. Put 1 double crochet in each stitch of row below, leaving 16 stitches without any stitches taken in them. That is, leave 8 stitches on each side of the joining. This will be the back of the neck. Break off and fasten yarn.
10. Make 7 rows (in all) putting 1 double crochet in each stitch of row below. Break off wool and fasten at end of each row.
To Make Trimming Bands:
1. Hold the inside of the cap toward you, and fasten the trimming wool at the right-hand corner.
2. Make 3 chains. Put 1 double crochet in each stitch all around the cap. Join. Make 3 more rows like this.
Fold the band back against the face and up around the neck of the cap, folding the extra fulness at the corners into a mitered shape. Sew in place with a long-eyed needle threaded with pink wool, and fasten rosettes and tie-ribbons at the sides.
INFANT DOLL’S CROCHETED SACQUE NO. 1[L]
Material: Pink, or light blue, or white, four-fold Saxony wool. Bone crochet hook, No. 2.
Directions:
This work is commenced at the neck.
1. Chain 50; that is, make 50 chain stitches.
2. Make 11 double crochets.
3. Put 2 double crochets in the twelfth chain stitch.
4. Make 12 double crochets.
5. Put 3 double crochets in the thirteenth chain stitch.
6. Make 12 double crochets.
7. Put 2 double crochets in the next chain stitch.
8. Make 11 double crochets. Break off yarn and fasten end. Do not turn the work.
9. Second row: Attach yarn at right-hand end.
TO ATTACH NEW YARN
Put the needle through the stitch and put a slip knot on the hook. Draw the slip knot through the stitch; or, thread a zephyr needle with the new yarn and run it into the loose end on the work; or, twist the two ends of yarn together.
10. Chain 2. Taking the back loop only, make 12 double crochets. Put 3 double crochets in the next stitch.
11. Make 1 double crochet in each stitch until you reach the cluster of 3 double crochets. Put three double crochets in the middle double crochet of the cluster.
12. Make 1 double crochet in each stitch until the cluster of 2 double crochets is reached. Put 3 double crochets in the first of the 2 double crochets. Put 1 double crochet in each stitch to end of row. Break off yarn, and fasten end.
13. Third row: Attach yarn. Chain 2. Make 1 double crochet in each stitch except in middle stitch of clusters. Put 3 double crochets in the middle stitch of each cluster. Break off yarn and fasten.
14. Fourth and fifth rows: follow direction No. 13.
15. Sixth row: Same as fifth row, except that in starting, 2 double crochets are put into the first stitch; 2 double crochets are also put into the last stitch.
16. Seventh row: Chain 2. Turn the work.
17. Putting hook under both threads, make 1 double crochet in the next stitch. Chain 1. Skip 1 stitch. Put 1 double crochet in the next stitch.
To Form the Armhole:
18. Keep on in this way (see No. 17) until there are 7 double crochets. Make 12 chain stitches. Count 7 stitches from the middle stitch (counting the middle stitch) in the first cluster of double crochets in the sixth row. Put 1 double crochet in the eighth stitch beyond the middle stitch of the cluster.
19. Continue according to direction No. 17.
20. Put 2 double crochets, with 1 chain stitch between, in the middle stitch of the cluster of double crochet in the middle of the back of sacque.
Continue according to direction No. 17, until within 7 stitches from middle stitch of last cluster of double crochet in sixth row. Make 12 chain stitches and form other armhole. Continue by direction No. 17 to end of row.
21. Eighth row: Follow direction Nos. 16 and 17, putting 2 double crochets in the first and the last stitches of the row in order to widen the front. The double crochets are put under _two_ threads in the chain stitches of the row just made.
22. Ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth rows: Like eighth row. Break off yarn and fasten end.
To Make the Sleeve:
1. Attach yarn to middle chain stitch underarm. Chain 2. Put double crochets all round the armhole. Join last stitch to chain with a slip stitch.
2. Next row. Chain 2. Put 1 double crochet in the next stitch. Chain 1. Put 1 double crochet in next stitch. Continue around row and join first and last stitches.
3. Continue direction No. 2 for 3 more rows. Narrow in the next 4 rows by omitting the chain between the double crochet every other stitch.
4. Chain 1. Put a row of single crochet around end of sleeve. Join.
5. Putting hook under back thread, make another row of single crochet. Break off yarn and fasten end.
To Make the Trimming:
The sacque in the picture is trimmed with a wool and silk Saxony yarn. It may be trimmed with the yarn used for the sacque.
1. At the left corner of the neck attach the yarn. Make slip stitches down left front to the first open space.
2. In the space, put 2 double crochets, and 1 chain, and 2 double crochets.
3. Make 1 single crochet in the next space.
4. Continue direction No. 2 to corner of sacque.
5. In the corner, put 3 double crochets, and 1 chain, and 3 double crochets.
6. Continue to make scallops in this way all around sacque, finishing edge of yoke part with single crochets as in direction No. 1 above.
Finish sacque at neck by drawing a ribbon runner under every other stitch.
INFANT DOLL’S CROCHETED SACQUE NO. 2.[M]
(See picture opposite page 136)
Material: Three-fold pink Saxony wool. Bone crochet needle No. 3. This needle should be a long even one, because the yoke of the sacque is made with
AFGHAN STITCH
Before beginning the sacque, practice making afghan stitch with four-fold Germantown wool.
Make 9 chain stitches. Pull a loop through _each_ stitch of the chain except the one next the needle. That is, skip one chain. See Cut 1, page 233.
Pull a loop through the loop nearest the hook. Cut 2.
Pull a loop through the next two loops nearest the hook. Continue to pull a loop through two loops in this way (Cut 3) until only one loop remains on the needle.
You will now notice the long straight upright loops on the front, or the right side, of your work. Cut 4.
Put the hook under the nearest long loop on the _front_ of the row of stitches just made, and pull a loop through. Cut 4. Continue to pull loops through the entire row in this way, and take the loops off the needle in the same way as they were pulled through the stitches in Cuts 2 and 3.
Directions for Making the Sacque:
Begin the work at back of yoke which is made with afghan stitch.
1. Chain 30; that is, make 30 chain stitches.
2. Keeping the last chain stitch on the hook, pull a loop through each stitch of the chain (except the one next to the needle) making 30 loops on the needle.
3. To take the stitches off, throw the yarn over the hook, pull hook through first loop. Throw yarn over the hook. Pull hook through 2 loops.
4. Continue to pull hook through 2 loops until but one loop remains on needle.
5. Pull a loop through each long loop (do not count the chain stitches on the edge as a long loop), leaving each on the needle. Do not turn the work, always work on the right side.
6. Repeat direction No. 3 and No. 4.
7. Make 10 rows of afghan stitch.
8. On the next row make loops in 10 stitches only—to form shoulder.
9. Make 6 rows of 10 stitches.
10. Now add 1 stitch, at the neck end only, on each row until there are 15 stitches.
To add a stitch.—Draw up a loop through the top thread between the loops of the row below. See “A” in Cut 4, page 233.
11. Continue to work on these 15 stitches until there are 10 rows, or 26 rows from the starting of the yoke.
12. To make strip down the front.—Make slip stitch in 9 loops. Then work 13 rows of afghan stitches on the remaining 6 stitches. Finish end of strip with 1 row of slip stitches.
13. To make other side.—Fasten yarn at right corner of back of neck. Make slip stitches in 10 stitches, and make 6 rows of afghan stitches on the other 10 stitches.
14. Increase on this side by making the extra loop between the first and second stitches until there are 15 stitches.
15. Work on the 15 stitches until there are 26 rows from the starting of the back yoke.
16. Then make front strip of 13 rows on the first 6 stitches, and finish strip like on other side.
17. Make slip stitches all around yoke.
18. Fasten yarn at one lower corner of yoke, back. Chain 8 and fasten end stitch to one lower corner of yoke, front, for armhole.
19. Do the same for other armhole.
To Make Body of Sacque:
Fasten yarn at left side corner of yoke leaving about a 3-inch end hanging and work across bottom of yoke and across the under arm chain stitch in this way:
1. Put 1 slip stitch in first stitch.
2. Make 3 chain stitches.
3. Put 1 double crochet in same stitch with the slip stitch.
4. Chain 2.
5. Put 2 double crochets in same stitch.
6. Skip 2 stitches on bottom of yoke, and put 1 double crochet, 1 chain stitch, 2 double crochets in the next stitch. Continue in this way to end of yoke on right side. Break off yarn about 3 inches from the work and pull through the last stitch. The ends are used later to fasten the body of the sacque to the front strips.
7. Second row: Fasten yarn in the middle of the first scallop on the left side, leaving the end hanging. Chain 3. Put 1 double crochet in same stitch. Chain 2. Put 2 double crochets in same stitch, and continue to other end of yoke, making a scallop in the middle of each scallop.
8. Continue in this way until the body is as long as the strip in front.
9. Thread a long-eyed needle with the end of yarn hanging from the first scallops, and catch it to the front strip with an over-and-over stitch. Cut off yarn.
Continue to fasten fronts to scallops in this way until they are fastened down the full length of the fronts.
To Make the Sleeve:
1. Fasten yarn at corner of armhole. Chain 3, and make a scallop (as in body part of sacque) in first stitch.
2. Skip 4 of the slip stitches on the edge. Make a scallop in the next stitch. Continue in this way around the armhole.
3. Join last and first scallop with slip stitch.
4. Chain 3 and make another round of scallops and join.
5. Continue to make rounds of scallops until there are 7 rows.
6. On the next row, chain 3. Put 2 double crochets in the middle of each scallop in the row below.
7. Next row: Chain 3. Put 1 double crochet in each double crochet of row below. Break off and fasten yarn.
Make other sleeve like this one.
To Make Bands for Sleeves:
1. Chain 6, and make a strip of afghan stitches 14 rows long.
2. Finish all around strip with slip stitch.
3. Sew ends of band together, and slip it over the end of the sleeve, putting the seam to the seam of the sleeve, and sew in place with end of pink wool.
Trimming.—With pink silk, make a row of slip stitches all around the edge of the sacque, and ends of the sleeves.
Thread a zephyr needle with two threads of the silk, and make cross stitches on the front strips, and around the strips at ends of sleeves.
Fasten pink narrow ribbons at neck to tie.
INFANT DOLL’S CROCHETED CAPE AND HOOD[N]
(See picture opposite page 136)
Material: Two-fold Saxony wool. Crochet silk (mercerized) for trimming. Bone crochet needle, No. 2.
Directions:
To Make the Hood.
1. With the Saxony, make 3 chain stitches.
2. Join them in a ring with a slip stitch.
3. Make 3 chain stitches, and make 16 double crochets in the ring.
4. Join the last double crochet with the top of the 3 chain stitches with a slip stitch. This makes the first row.
5. Second row: Make 3 chain stitches and put 2 double crochets in each double crochet of the first row. In making this garment, take up back loop of the stitch only. Join as in direction No. 4 (bottom of page 236).
6. Third row: Chain 3; that is, make 3 chain stitches. Put 1 double crochet in the first double crochet in the row below. Put 2 double crochets in the second double crochet. Continue in this way to the end of the row, and join as in direction No. 4.
7. Fourth row: Chain 3 and put 2 double crochets in every third stitch. (Put 1 double crochet in the stitches between.) Do this to the end of the row and join.
8. Fifth row: Chain 3, and put 2 double crochets in every fourth stitch. Join.
9. Sixth row: Chain 3 and put 1 double crochet in each double crochet of the row below. Join and break off and fasten the yarn.
10. Seventh row: Fasten end of wool at the ninth stitch and make 3 chains. Put 1 double crochet in each stitch of row below, leaving 16 stitches without any stitches taken in them; that is, leave 8 stitches on each side of the joining. This will be the back of the neck.
11. Make 8 rows in all, putting 1 double crochet in each double crochet of row below, breaking off and fastening the yarn at end of each row. Begin the new row each time at the right side of the cap.
There is a turned-back facing around the face of the doll.
To Make the Facing:
Holding the wrong side of the cap toward you, make 4 rows of double crochet in the same way as in directions Nos. 10 and 11. Nothing more is to be done to this facing until after the cape is made.
TO MAKE THE CAPE
This work is all done on the right side, holding cap toward you.
1. Starting at the right-hand corner of the neck, make 1 row of double crochet along the bottom edge of the cap. Break off and fasten yarn.
2. Second row: Fasten yarn at right end and make this row of double crochet, putting 3 double crochets in the fifteenth stitch from each end. These increases make the fulness over the shoulders.
3. Third row: Make this row of double crochet, putting 3 double crochets in the middle stitch of the increases in direction No. 2.
4. Fourth row: Make in same way, increasing as in No. 3. Also increase by making 2 double crochets in each of 2 stitches in the middle of the back.
5. Fifth and sixth rows: Same as fourth row.
6. Seventh row: This row is increased in the shoulders and middle of back in the same way as before, but more fulness is given by making 2 double crochets in the 2 middle stitches between the shoulder and the back on each side.
7. The eighth row is made in the same way as the seventh row.
8. Make 9 rows without increasing.
9. To fasten the loose ends of wool, thread them into a long-eyed needle and run the ends back into the work.
10. Starting at the neck at the left side, holding the outside of cape toward you, make single crochets in the ends of the first 2 rows of double crochet.
11. Make double crochet all around the cape except at the corners, where you will put 3 double crochets.
12. When you reach the first 2 rows on the right-hand side of the cape at neck, make single crochet as in the No. 10.
13. Put 1 single crochet in each stitch around the face holding the turn-back flat against the cap.
To Trim.—Fasten the pink silk at the left side of the neck, and put 1 single crochet, 2 chains and 3 double crochets in the first stitch.
2. Skip 2 stitches, and put 1 single crochet, 2 chains, and 3 double crochets in the third stitch.
3. Continue to do this all around the cape and the face of the hood or bonnet, and then around the edge of the turn-back.
4. Holding the face of the hood toward you, put a single crochet in the front loop of each stitch all around the first row of double crochet in the turn-back.
5. Do the same to the other 2 rows of the turn-back.
DOLL’S CROCHETED COACH COVER
(Coffee Bean Stitch)
Material: White four-fold Germantown zephyr with pink four-fold Germantown zephyr for trimming. Bone crochet hook, No. 6.
Directions:
NOTE.—In doing this work, make loose stitches.
TO MAKE COFFEE BEAN STITCH
1. Chain 50; that is, make 50 chain stitches.
2. (_a_) Skip 2 chains, and put the hook through the third chain stitch.
(_b_) Wrap (throw yarn over hook) and pull the hook through the stitch.
(_c_) Wrap. Put hook through the same chain stitch: Wrap, and pull hook through the stitch.
(_d_) Wrap. Put hook through the same chain stitch.
Wrap, and pull hook through the same stitch.
There will now be 6 stitches on the crochet needle.
(_e_) Throw yarn over hook, and draw it through the 6 stitches on the needle.
3. Chain 1.
4. Skip 1 chain stitch in the chain first made (see direction No. 1 above) and repeat direction No. 2. This will make another bean stitch.
5. Continue to make bean stitches to the end of chain, making 25 beans in all. Turn the work.
6. Second row: Draw a loop through the second stitch from the needle.
Throw yarn over hook and proceed to make another bean. Chain 1, and skip 1 stitch and continue in this way to the end of the row.
Make in all—
6 rows of white 4 rows of pink 22 rows of white 4 rows of pink 6 rows of white
To Make the Scallops:
1. Fasten the white wool in the first stitch of the top with single crochet.
2. Put 5 double crochets in the next stitch.
3. Skip 1 stitch and put 1 single crochet in the next stitch. (This will hold the scallop down.)
4. Skip 1 stitch and put 5 double crochets in the next stitch. Fasten scallop down with 1 single crochet as in direction No. 3. Continue to make scallops all around the cover. Break off white yarn and fasten.
5. Attach pink yarn, and put 1 single crochet in the white single crochet.
6. Put 5 double crochets around the third stitch of the white scallops.
The double crochets are put around the third stitch as in making Doll’s Crocheted Hat, page 207.
7. Fasten scallop down with single crochet in the single crochet between the white scallops.
8. Continue to make scallops this way all around the cover. Break off the yarn, and fasten the end.
DOLL’S CROCHETED SPORTS HAT
(See picture opposite page 72)
Material: Rose pink wool floss, Gray Angora or Teazle wool for trimming. Bone crochet hook, No. 3.
Directions:
1. Chain 3; that is, make 3 chain stitches.
2. First row: Put 6 single crochets in second chain stitch. Do not join.
3. Second row: Put 2 single crochets in each of the 6 single crochets, taking up both loops.
4. Third row: Put 2 single crochets in the first stitch, 1 single crochet in the next stitch. Continue around row.
5. Fourth row: Put 2 single crochets in the first stitch, 1 single crochet in each of the next 2 stitches. Continue around row.
6. Continue to widen in this way until there are 11 stitches in each section, or 66 stitches in the row.
7. Make 6 rows without increasing.
8. Make 10 single crochets; skip 1 stitch and continue to do this until there are but 48 stitches.
9. Turn, and work on the wrong side of the hat.
10. Make 1 row of single crochet without increasing.
11. On the next 2 rows, increase in every third stitch, as in direction No. 5.
12. Make 1 row of single crochet without increasing.
13. Finish off the pink by taking 2 slip stitches.
14. Fasten on the trimming wool, and make 1 single crochet in each stitch all around for 2 rows.
15. Make 1 row of slip stitches. Break off and fasten yarn.
DOLL’S CROCHETED BREAKFAST CAP
(See page 87)
Material: Pink or white, or pink and white, or light blue and white luster cotton. Steel crochet hook No. 7. 1 yard “baby” ribbon to match cap.
Directions:
The work is begun in the center of the top.
1. Chain 5; that is, make 5 chain stitches. Join in a ring with slip stitch. Chain 4.
2. First row: Make 20 treble crochets in the ring (see page 228). Join last stitch to top stitch of chain with slip stitch.
3. Second row: Chain 4. Put 1 single crochet into each treble crochet with 4 chain stitches between the single crochet, thus making a loop of the chain stitches.
4. Third row: Chain 4. Make 1 single crochet in each chain loop with 4 chain stitches between.
5. Fourth row: Same as third row.
6. Fifth and sixth rows: Chain 5. Make 1 single crochet in each chain loop, with 5 chain stitches between.
7. Seventh and eighth rows: Chain 6. Make 1 single crochet in each chain loop with 6 chain stitches between.
8. Ninth row: Chain 4. Make 1 single crochet in the loop of the row below. Chain 4. Make 1 single crochet in the first single crochet of row. Chain 4. Make 1 single crochet in next loop. Chain 4. Make 1 single crochet in next single crochet. Continue around the row.
9. Tenth row: Chain 4. Make 1 single crochet in each loop to end.
10. Eleventh and twelfth rows: Like tenth row.
11. Thirteenth row: Chain 4. Make 1 double crochet in chain loop. Chain 1. Make 1 double crochet in first single crochet. Chain 1. Make 1 double crochet in next chain loop. Chain 1. Make 1 double crochet in next single crochet. Continue to end of row.
12. Fourteenth row: Chain 4. Put 1 double crochet in each space of thirteenth row with 1 chain stitch between and join last stitch to top of the chain 4 with a slip stitch.
13. Fifteenth row: Chain 1. Make 1 single crochet in each double crochet of fourteenth row.
14. Sixteenth row: Chain 3. Make 1 double crochet in each single crochet of fifteenth row. (When the cap is finished run ribbon through these stitches.)
15. Seventeenth row: Chain 4. Make 1 single crochet in the second double crochet of sixteenth row. Chain 4. Make 1 single crochet in the fourth double crochet. Continue to end of row.
16. Eighteenth and nineteenth rows: Chain 5. Make 1 single crochet in each chain loop of previous row with 5 chain stitches between. Break off and fasten thread.
Trim with ribbon rosette.
DOLL’S CROCHETED GARTERS
(See picture opposite page 40)
Material: Pink or light blue mercerized crochet cotton. (In ordering this material, mention what you are going to make, so that you will be given the right size of thread.) Steel crochet hook, No. 9.
Directions:
1. Chain 10; that is, make 10 chain stitches.
2. Put 2 double crochets and 1 chain and 2 double crochets in the fourth stitch from the needle.
3. Chain 5.
4. Put 2 double crochets and 1 chain and 2 double crochets in the end chain stitch.
5. Chain 3 and turn.
6. Put 2 double crochets and 1 chain and 2 double crochets between the second and third double crochet in the cluster below. (This cluster was made by direction No. 4 above.)
7. Chain 5, and repeat direction No. 6 in the next cluster below.
8. Repeat directions No. 5, 6, 7, again. This will make 3 rows.
9. On the fourth row, make the cluster (No. 4). Chain 2. Make 1 single crochet around the 2 rows of 5 chains below.
10. Chain 2 and continue with the clusters, catching chains together in every fourth row. Make work long enough to cover the doll’s elastic garter very loosely.
11. Run rubber garter through the crocheted work and fasten ends of garter. Sew a ribbon bow over the joining.
A CHILD’S GARTER
is made in the same way, using a few more stitches in each row across.
DOLL’S CROCHETED SHOPPING BAG
(See picture opposite page 104)
Material: Ecru crochet cotton, No. 5. Two brass rings to fit doll’s wrist. Steel crochet hook No. 7.
Directions:
This work is begun at the bottom of the bag.
1. Chain 25; that is, make 25 chain stitches.
2. Using 1 chain to turn, make 24 single crochets in the chain. Put 2 more single crochets in the last stitch.
3. Make 1 single crochet in each stitch on the other side of the chain, putting 2 single crochets in end stitch.
4. Now work around and around without joining the rows. Chain 3, skip 1 stitch, make 1 single crochet in the second stitch. Continue doing this around the first row.
5. On the next row, chain 3, make 1 single crochet around the chain 3 of the row below. Continue doing this until there are 13 rows.
6. On the fourteenth row, work half way around. Make 3 chains to turn, and put 1 single crochet in the first chain loop. Chain 3, and continue across, making stitches as in direction No. 5. Make 5 rows. This will make the division which forms the opening.
7. Next row: Chain 3. Make 1 double crochet in each chain loop, with 1 chain between.
8. Next row: Chain 3. Make 1 double crochet in each double crochet of row just made.
9. Last row: Chain 1. Make 1 single crochet in each double crochet of row below. Do not break off the thread.
To Fasten Bag to Handles:
1. With the last stitch made on the needle, put hook through one of the brass rings which will be used as a handle. Very nearly fill the ring with single crochet. Fold the ring down inside the bag, and make single crochet through the ring and top of bag, putting 1 single crochet in each stitch.
This will entirely cover the ring, and attach it to the bag at the same time, and will also make a neat finish on the right side of the work.
2. Break off and fasten end of thread.
3. To make other side of opening.—Start at right-hand side of opening. Make 3 chains. Put 1 single crochet in first chain loop, and continue to work in the same way as you made the first side.
DOLL’S CROCHETED SPORTS SWEATER
(See frontispiece)
Material: Burnt orange double floss with black double floss for trimming three small wooden button molds. Bone crochet hook, No. 2.
Directions:
To Make Front:
1. With orange floss, chain 25; that is, make 25 chain stitches.
2. Make 24 single crochets. Chain 1 to turn.
3. Taking front thread of stitch only, put 1 single crochet in each of 24 single crochets, and add 1 single crochet in the last stitch. Chain 1 to turn.
4. Continue in this way (No. 3), adding 1 single crochet at neck end until there are 27 stitches.
5. On the next row add 4 chains after making 27 single crochets.
6. Put 1 single crochet in each of 3 of these chains, and 1 single crochet in each of the 27 single crochets, making 30 single crochets in all.
7. Continue to make rows of 30 single crochets until there are 13 rows from the beginning.
8. On the fourteenth row, make 20 single crochets. Make 8 rows of 20 single crochets for under arm.
9. On the twenty-third row, add 11 chain stitches. Use 1 chain to turn, and make 10 single crochets in the chain stitch,—also 20 single crochets in the single crochets (see No. 8) under arm.
10. Make 21 rows of the 30 stitches for the back.
11. On the next row (the forty-fourth) make 20 single crochets for 8 rows under arm.
12. On the next row (the fifty-second) add 11 chain stitches. Use 1 chain to turn. Make 10 single crochets in the chain and 20 single crochets in the under arm stitches.
13. Make 7 rows of the 30 single crochets.
14. On the next row make 27 stitches. (Be sure to make this row from the bottom upward.) Make 1 chain to turn.
15. Skip the first single crochet at the neck, and make 26 single crochets.
16. Continue to decrease 1 single crochet at the neck until you have only 24 single crochet stitches in the row.
This finishes the body of the sweater.
17. Sew 7 rows of the front and back at the shoulders to form armholes. (See picture, page 130.)
Border around the Sweater:
1. Starting at the left side of the neck, holding outside of the sweater toward you, put 1 single crochet in each stitch all around the sweater until you come to the right side of the neck, except at the corner stitches at the bottom, in which put 3 single crochets.
2. Chain 1 to turn, and work back to the starting point in the same way.
3. Then put one row of slip stitches all around sweater.
To Make the Buttons:
Make 5 buttons of orange floss just as you made the buttons on the doll’s pink sweater (see page 205).
Thread a long-eyed needle with black floss and decorate the buttons with cross stitches around the edges.
To Make the Collar:
1. With black floss, chain 31. Use 1 chain stitch to turn.
2. Make 30 single crochets. Make 1 chain.
3. Make 6 rows of 30 single crochets, taking both threads.
4. Make 16 rows of 15 single crochets.
5. Make 6 rows of 30 single crochets. (Add chain stitches as for lengthening in No. 9 above.)
6. With two strands of the black floss put 1 row of single crochet across the bottom edge of the back of the collar.
7. With single black floss put 1 row of slip stitches all around the collar.
To Make the Sleeve:
1. Chain 9.
2. Make 8 single crochets. Chain 1.
3. Second row: Put 2 single crochets in the first stitch. Make 1 single crochet in each stitch to the end of the row. Chain 3 to turn.
4. Third row: Make 1 single crochet in each of the 2 chains, and make single crochet to the end.
5. Fourth row: Put 2 single crochets in the first stitch; single crochet to the end of row. Chain 5. Turn.
6. Fifth row: Put 4 single crochets in the chain, and single crochet to end of the row. 1 chain.
7. Sixth row: Put 2 single crochets in the first stitch; single crochet to end of row. 1 chain.
8. Seventh row: Make 17 single crochets, 1 chain.
9. Eighth row: Put 2 single crochets in the first stitch; single crochet to end. Make 1 chain.
10. Make 6 more rows of 18 stitches.
11. On the fifteenth row, skip the stitch next to the last. Make 1 chain.
12. Sixteenth row: Make 17 single crochets and 1 chain.
13. Seventeenth row is the same as the fifteenth row.
14. Eighteenth row is 16 single crochets and 1 chain.
15. Nineteenth row: Put a slip stitch in each of the first 4 stitches; single crochet to the end of the row, skipping the next to the last stitch. Chain 1.
16. Twentieth row: Make 11 single crochets and 1 chain.
17. Twenty-first row: Make slip stitch in the first 2 stitches; single crochet to the end of row, skipping next to the last stitch. Chain 1.
18. Twenty-second row: Make 8 single crochets. Sew up the sleeve.
With orange floss, put 2 rows of single crochet around the hand, taking both threads of stitches.
Add 2 rows of black single crochet and 1 row of black slip stitches.
To Make the Belt:
1. Chain 5.
2. Make 4 single crochets. Chain 1 to turn.
3. Taking both threads, make 4 single crochets and 1 chain to turn until the belt is the length desired. (About 28 rows.)
Sew the sleeves in the armholes as in making Teddy Bear Sweater (see page 133).
Sew buttons in place and make loops as in making Teddy Bear Sweater.
Sew belt at waist line under arm, sewing a button on each end.
Sew the collar to the neck of the sweater.
DOLL’S CROCHETED FLOWER BASKET[O]
(See picture opposite page 230)
Material: White or tan crochet cotton No. 10. Steel crochet hook No. 7.
Directions:
To Make Bottom of Basket:
1. Chain 5; that is, make 5 chain stitches. Join into a ring with a slip stitch.
2. Chain 5.
3. Make 15 treble crochets in the ring with 1 chain stitch between each treble crochet. Join the last treble crochet into the fourth chain stitch (see No. 2) with slip stitch.
4. Second row: Chain 4. Make 1 double crochet in the space between the first 2 treble crochets. Chain 2. Make 1 double crochet in next space. Make 2 chain stitches. Continue in this way around the row. Join (with slip stitches) the last of the 2 chain stitches into the third chain of the 4 chain stitches.
5. Third row: Chain 3. Put 2 double crochets in the first space between first 2 double crochets in previous row. Make 2 chains. Put 2 double crochets in the next space. Make 2 chains. Continue around the row, and join the last chain with the top of the 3 chains.
To make the Scallops:
6. Make 1 single crochet, 3 double crochets, 1 single crochet in each space between double crochets in the row below.
To Make the Sides of the Basket:
1. Turn the under or wrong side of the bottom of the basket toward you. Bend down the scallops under the thumb.
2. Chain 3.
3. Put hook through the top of the first double crochet made in the second row. (See No. 4, page 246.) Fasten chain which is on needle with a slip stitch. (See picture.)
4. Chain 3. Put 2 crochets in each space between the double crochet in the second row. Join last and first stitch with slip stitch.
5. Chain 3.
Put 2 double crochets in the space between the first two clusters of double crochet in the row below. Chain 1.
Continue to end of row. Join with slip stitch.
6. Make 3 more rows in the same way.
7. The next row is made in the same way, except that 2 chains are put between the clusters of stitches.
8. Finish the top of sides with scallops like the ones on the bottom of the basket. (See No. 6.)
To Make the Handles:
1. Chain 3.
2. Put 4 double crochets at the top of the first two scallops. (See picture.)
3. Chain 3. Turn. Make 1 double crochet in each of the 4 double crochets.
4. Repeat No. 3 until handle is about 12 rows long, or as long as desired.
5. Fasten end to opposite side of basket with slip stitch.
6. Run ribbon through the spaces in the sixth row of sides, and tie in a bow.
GIRL’S CROCHETED HAND BAG
(Crazy Stitch)
(See picture opposite page 104)
Material: Heavy mercerized Old Blue crochet cotton, about No. 5. Steel crochet hook, No. 3.
Directions:
This bag is made with
CRAZY STITCH
1. Chain 28 stitches; that is, make 28 chain stitches.
2. In the fourth stitch from needle, put 3 double crochets.
3. Skip 3 chains and put 1 single crochet, 2 chains, 3 double crochets, in the fourth chain stitch.
4. Skip 3 chains and repeat the cluster to the end of the chain, fastening the last cluster in the end stitch of the 35 chain stitches with a single crochet.
5. Second row: Chain 3, and turn the work. Make 3 double crochets in the single crochet that fastened the last cluster to the end of the chain. (See picture.)
6. Make 1 single crochet, 2 chains, 3 double crochets between the third double crochet and the 2 chains of the row below. (See picture.)
7. Continue in this way, making clusters until there are 9 rows. Break off and fasten thread. This makes one side.
8. To make other side. Fasten the cotton in the last chain stitch of the chain first made. (See No. 1.)
9. Make 9 rows of clusters.
10. Fold, and crochet sides together with single crochets.
11. Make 1 row of clusters all around the top of the bag.
12. Make 1 single crochet in the chain stitches in the first cluster of the row of clusters just finished.
13. Make 3 double crochets in the single crochets between the clusters.
14. Put 1 single crochet in the chain of the next cluster.
15. Repeat Nos. 12, 13, 14 around top.
To Make Runner Spaces:
1. Chain 3.
2. Put 1 double crochet in the first double crochet of the first scallop. Chain 1.
3. Put 1 double crochet in the third double crochet of scallop. Continue No. 2 and 3 around top. Join with slip stitches.
To Make Top Scallops:
1. Make 1 single crochet in the first runner space.
2. Make 2 double crochets in the next space.
3. Make 1 double crochet in the double crochet between the spaces.
4. Make 2 double crochets in the next space.
5. Make 1 single crochet in the next space. This makes 1 scallop.
6. Make scallops in this way all around the top.
7. Make 1 single crochet in the top of the first double crochet of first scallop.
8. Chain 3.
9. Draw a loop through each of the first and second stitches of scallops, and take the 3 loops off the needle as one stitch.
10. Repeat Nos. 8 and 9 around the top.
To Make the Runner:
Cut 3 strands of the cotton about 1½ yards long. Lay side by side and twist as in making trimming for Doll’s Crocheted Hat, page 209.
Make 2 runners in this way, and tie a knot in one end of each.
Run them through runner spaces from opposite sides of bag and tie them in hard knots at the ends.
Cut ends even to look like tassels.
BABY’S CROCHETED BOOTEES
Materials: White four-fold Saxony wool. Pink four-fold Saxony wool. Bone crochet hook No. 3.
Four small flat pearl buttons.
Directions:
(The work is commenced at “B.”)
1. With white wool chain 34; that is, make 34 chain stitches.
2. Skip the first chain stitch, and make 1 single crochet in each of the next 16 chain stitches.
3. Put 3 single crochets in the seventeenth stitch, and 1 single crochet in each of the next 16 chain stitches. Make 1 chain to turn.
4. Second row: Taking the back thread of the stitch, make 1 single crochet in each stitch, except the eighteenth stitch. In the eighteenth stitch put 3 single crochets. The 2 rows now made from a rib. Make 1 pink rib, putting 3 single crochets in the middle stitch at the toe. Make 1 white rib and 1 more pink rib in the same way. Do not break off the yarn. Just let it hang in back of the work, and crochet back edges (from A to B) together with the pink yarn, using slip stitches. Break off and fasten wool.
To Make Sole:
1. Fasten white yarn at the joining place at the bottom, holding right side (outside) of bootee toward you.
2. Make 3 chain stitches. Taking back thread only, make 1 double crochet in each stitch all around edge of sock. Join last stitch to the 3 chains with slip stitches.
3. Second row: Chain 3. Make 1 double crochet in each double crochet of row just made. Join end in same way.
4. Fold sock from toe to heel with right sides in, and join the opening in the sole with slip stitch, catching back threads only of opposite stitches.
Break off wool and fasten end. Turn sock right side out.
5. To make finishing edge of sole—hold narrow part of sock toward you, toe pointing toward your left hand. Fasten pink yarn at joining place in back, and make 1 row of single crochet all around sole edge of sock (along the place where the double crochets were first made), taking front thread of stitches of last rib made in vamp, or upper, of sock.
To Make Top of Bootee.
1. Fasten pink yarn in second stitch from middle of the front. (In making sock for the right foot, point the toe toward your right hand with the sole toward you. Point toe toward left hand in making sock for left foot.)
2. Make 1 row of single crochet all around the ledge. Break off yarn and fasten end.
3. Fasten white yarn in top of first single crochet. The top of the sock is made with
STAR STITCH
Practice making this stitch with four-fold Germantown wool. Make 14 chain stitches. Skip 1 chain stitch. Make 13 single crochets in the chain.
1. Make 3 chain stitches. Turn the work. Draw a loop up in each of first two chain stitches of the three chain stitches just made. Draw a loop up in each of the first two single crochets on the edge taking both threads. There will be 5 loops on the needle.
Wrap the yarn around the needle, and pull a loop through all the loops on the needle.
Make 1 chain stitch. This last chain stitch draws all the loops into a little “eye.”
2. For the second star stitch, pull a loop through the “eye” of the first star stitch. Pull a loop through the _back_ thread of the last loop of the first star stitch. (See “A” in picture below.)
Pull a loop through each of the next 2 single crochets on edge. This will make 5 loops on the needle. Wrap and pull yarn through all the loops on the needle at one time.
Make 1 chain stitch to form the “eye.”
3. Repeat direction No. 2 all around sock. Break off and fasten yarn.
4. Second row of star stitches. To make the first star stitch on this row—fasten white yarn into top of first star stitch and make 3 chains.
Draw a loop through each of 2 chain stitches. Draw a loop through the “eye” of the star stitch below (the first one made).
Draw a loop through the _next_ stitch at the top of the first star stitch, taking up the 2 threads. This makes 5 loops on the needle. Wrap and draw a loop through all 5 loops. Make 1 chain.
5. In making the next stitch, draw up a loop in the “eye” of the star stitch just made. (See A in picture.) Draw up a loop in _back_ thread of the last loop of the star stitch just made. (See B.) Pull a loop through the “eye” of the next star stitch in the row below. (See C.) Pull a loop through under the next _two_ threads on the edge of the row below. (See D.) Pull a loop through the 5 loops on the needle. Make 1 chain stitch. Repeat this direction around the sock.
6. Make another row of white star stitches.
7. Make another row of pink star stitches.
To Make the Scallops:
1. Holding the sole of the sock toward you, fasten the pink yarn at the opening point (near the lower button in the picture).
2. Make a row of single crochet along opening edge to the top.
3. In the corner stitch at the top, make 1 single crochet and 2 chain stitches and 3 double crochets.
4. Make scallop by direction No. 3 in the “eye” of each star stitch around the top.
5. Make a row of single crochet along the other edge of the opening. Break off and fasten yarn.
For Buttonhole Loops:
Fasten pink wool at top edge of the opening, and working toward the sole, make 2 slip stitches.
Make 2 chain stitches. Skip 2 stitches on the edge and make 2 slip stitches. Make another loop in the same way and finish edge of opening with slip stitches. Break off and fasten yarn.
Fasten all ends securely.
Sew two buttons opposite the loops.
BABY’S CROCHETED BALL
(See picture opposite page 230.)
Material: White four-fold Germantown zephyr, Pink Germantown zephyr. Bone crochet hook No. 8.
Directions:
1. With pink yarn, chain 5; that is, make 5 chain stitches.
2. Join into a ring with slip stitches.
3. Put 1 single crochet in the ring.
To Make Curly Stitch:
4. With the stitch now on the needle, put the hook through the ring, draw the yarn through the ring, and make 4 chain stitches. Then the stitches _on the needle_ will look like the picture at top of page 253.
5. Do _not_ wrap, but draw the last chain stitch through the stitch on the needle.
6. Make 1 single crochet in the ring.
7. Repeat Nos. 4 and 5, being sure to have the loop of chain stitches on the right side of work.
8. Make 5 of the loops of chain stitches in the ring (in all).
9. Second row: Put 1 single crochet in the top of the first single crochet in the ring and a curly stitch in the next stitch.[P]
10. To widen.—Put the single crochet and the curly stitch in the same stitch. This is done in about every third stitch until the ball is as wide as you wish to make it.
11. Make 5 rows of pink. 3 rows of white. 2 rows of pink.
This will finish half of the ball.
12. Make another half, and sew the two halves together, leaving about 2 inches open for filling.
13. Fill with raw cotton. Bury in the cotton several little brass bells. Or fill with odds and ends of left-over yarn.
14. Finish sewing together.
LADY’S CROCHETED NECKLACE
(See picture opposite page 200)
Material: Mercerized cotton, or silk—any color desired, 6 glass beads with large threading holes. Steel crochet hook No. 7.
Directions:
Make two balls first in this way:
HOW TO MAKE BUTTON BALLS
1. Make 4 chain stitches. Join first and last stitches in a ring with a slip stitch.
2. Make 2 single crochets in each chain stitch. There will be 8 stitches. Do not join them. Work round and round.
3. Make 2 single crochets in each stitch of first row (16 stitches).
4. Make 6 rows of 16 stitches each, or 96 single crochets, working round and round.
5. Stuff this form just made with soft cotton, filling it until it is firm but not hard. Then draw in the top of the ball by making single crochets in every other stitch until the opening is closed.
Cut off the thread about 5 inches from the ball, and draw it through the last stitch. Leave the end hanging.
To Make the Chain:
1. Thread the 6 beads on the cotton and push them back near the spool.
2. Commencing about 5 inches from the end of the cotton, make 2 _loose_ chain stitches. Pull out the loop of the second chain stitch until it is nearly ½ inch long.
To Make Bead Stitch:
3. Now throw the thread over the crochet needle; that is, “wrap,” (holding the chain stitch between the thumb and second finger of the left hand) and put the hook into the first chain stitch under 2 threads. Throw the thread over the needle and pull a long loop through the chain stitches, making it the length of the first drawn through.
Throw the thread over the crochet needle, or “wrap,” and draw another loop up on the hook in the same way.
Continue to wrap and draw up loops in this way until there are 7 loose loops on the crochet needle. (See picture.) Wrap once again, and draw a loose loop through all 7 loops already on the needle.
Wrap and draw a loop through the stitch then on the needle. Draw this stitch through until it is the length of the loops in the first cluster.
Holding the first cluster between the thumb and second finger of the left hand, wrap, and put hook through the loop just below the loop on the needle (at the right), and _back_ of the _single_ thread at the left. (See picture above.)
Draw up a loop.
Wrap; draw up a loop and continue to draw up loops until there are 7 loops on the needle. Wrap, and draw a loose loop through the seven loops. Make 1 loose chain stitch.
Make another cluster of stitches to form another bead.
After the third cluster is made, make 3 chain stitches, and slip 1 bead down the thread until it meets the chain. Put the hook through the hole in the bead, and catch the last chain stitch. Pull the bead down over the chain stitches.
Draw up the last loop of the chain about ½ inch, and make a cluster of stitches as in beginning the work.
Make 2 more clusters; add another bead.
Make 2 more clusters, and add one more bead.
Continue to make clusters until the chain is nearly as long as desired. Then add the beads as explained above and make 3 more clusters. Cut off thread about 5 inches from the end of the work, and make one chain stitch to fasten end, drawing it all the way through.
To Fasten Balls on Ends of the Chain:
Thread the end of cotton left on the chain into a long-eyed needle and sew with several stitches to the top of the ball, running the end well down into the ball to fasten it securely before cutting it off.
LADY’S CROCHETED PURSE
(See picture opposite page 104)
Material: Fine mercerized blue, or lavender, or pink, or ecru, or gray, crochet cotton. Steel crochet needle No. 9. One bone ring, about 1⅛ inch across.
Directions:
1. Chain 8; that is, make 8 chain stitches. Join in ring with slip stitch.
2. First row: Chain 3. Put 2 double crochets in each stitch of chains.
Join with slip stitch.
3. Second row: Like the first row.
4. Third row: Chain 3. Make 1 double crochet in the first stitch of row below. Make 2 double crochets in the next; 1 double crochet in the next; 2 double crochets in the next; and so on to the end of row. Join.
5. Fourth row: Chain 3.
Make 1 double crochet in each of the first 2 stitches; 2 double crochets in the third stitch; and so on to the end of the row.
6. Fifth and sixth rows: Chain 3. Put 1 double crochet in each stitch with 1 chain between.
This makes one side.
7. Make another side like the one just finished.
8. Join sides with picot edging.
HOW TO MAKE PICOT EDGING
Use a piece of rather heavy cord to practice making picot (pēkō) edge.
1. Make a chain of 15 stitches.
2. Turn and make 14 single crochets. Make 1 chain stitch.
3. Turn, and putting hook under two threads, make 2 single crochets.
4. Make 3 chain stitches.
5. Now, pointing the hook toward the left thumb, put it through the top loop of the single crochet _last_ made (where the chain was started), and then put it through the _lower front_ loop of the single crochet _last_ made. (See picture, page 256.)
6. Wrap and draw thread (a slip stitch) through all three loops and on needle. This forms a picot.
7. Make 2 single crochets, and make another picot. Continue in this way across the row. Now you are ready to join the sides of the purse together.
8. Hold both sides together with the joinings touching. Put the crochet hook through the space between the first 2 stitches on each side. Make 1 single crochet. Chain 3 and fasten last chain stitch to single crochet just made with slip stitch as in Nos. 5 and 6. This makes a picot.
9. Continue to make picot edge, leaving 15 double crochets without the picot edge—to form an opening.
To Make the Flap:
(See picture on page 255)
1. Chain 3.
2. Put 2 double crochet in each space.
3. Chain 3 to turn. Skip 3 double crochets and put 1 double crochet in each of the 24 stitches. Skip 2 double crochets and put 1 double crochet in the end double crochet.
4. Chain 3 to turn. Skip 3 double crochet.
Make 1 double crochet in each of 18 double crochets in lower row. Skip 2 double crochets and put 1 double crochet in the end double crochet.
5. Chain 3. Skip 3 double crochets. Make 12 double crochets. Skip 2 double crochets. Make 1 double crochet on end.
6. Chain 3. Skip 3 double crochets. Make 7 double crochets. Skip 2 double crochets. Make 1 double crochet on end.
7. Chain 3. Skip 2 double crochets. Make 3 double crochets. Skip 2 double crochets. Make 1 double crochet on end.
Break off and fasten cotton.
8. Put picot edge around the flap in the same way as you did around the purse. Fasten thread.
Fold flap over into place.
To Make the Strings:
1. Holding the back of the purse toward you, fasten the cotton into the fifth space from the joining point of the sides.
2. Chain 25. Catch the twenty-fifth chain stitch into the bone ring with a single crochet.
3. Chain 25. Skip 2 spaces on the top of the purse, and fasten the twenty-fifth chain into the third opening with a single crochet.
4. Make 9 strings of chain stitches, fastening them at the ends as explained.
5. Cover the ring with single crochet.
6. Make 25 chain stitches, and fasten last chain stitch in the place where the strings were started. Fasten thread.
7. Sew snap fasteners on purse and flap.
DOLL’S KNITTED MUFF
(See picture opposite page 200)
Material: White Angora wool, or Teazle yarn. If Teazle yarn is used, before sewing the garments up, brush with a clean stiff brush to make them furry. Bone knitting needles No. 2.
Directions:
1. Cast on 15 stitches.
2. Knit 20 ribs (a row across and back makes a rib).
3. Bind off.
4. Sew beginning row and last row of stitches together, and line muff with satin.
5. Make a long chain of the yarn to use to hang muff on doll’s neck.
Trim lower edge with fringe. Cut 3½-inch strands of yarn for making fringe. Draw 2 strands through at a time.
DOLL’S KNITTED BOA OR STOLE
(See picture opposite page 200)
Material and Needles: The same as for Doll’s Muff.
Directions:
1. Cast on 8 stitches. Knit plain.
2. Increase 1 stitch on each rib at one end only until there are 14 stitches.
3. Make 42 ribs on the 14 stitches; then
4. Narrow on one edge by knitting off 2 stitches together as one, on each rib until there are 8 stitches.
5. Bind off.
6. Trim with fringe same as fringe on muff.
7. Make a 2-inch chain of gold color mercerized cotton and sew it to each side of the neck of the stole.
8. Make 2 fancy rings like those made on doll’s sleeveless sweater (see page 189), and sew one over each place where the gold chain was fastened.
TO MAKE THE TRIMMING BAND ON HAT
(See picture opposite page 200)
Crochet a chain a little longer than needed to meet around the band. Put 1 treble crochet into each chain stitch. (See page 228.)
In sewing trimming band on hat, let the treble crochet puff out, and bring the edges of the band close together.
The pompon is made in the same way as the pompons on the Doll’s Crochet Toque or Cap.
DOLL’S KNITTED BREAKFAST SHAWL
(See picture on page 87)
Material: White wool floss and pink mercerized cotton. Bone knitting needles No. 5.
Directions:
1. With white floss cast on 30 stitches.
2. Knit plain for 50 ribs. (A rib is a row across and back.)
3. Bind off.
4. Lay 1 strand of floss side by side with 1 strand of pink cotton, and pick up each stitch along edge for collar.
5. Knit plain, narrowing at each end (by knitting first 2, and last 2 stitches together as one) until there are 9 ribs.
6. Bind off.
7. Put 1 row of single crochet around edge of collar.
8. Make tassels of the white and pink.
9. Sew a tassel on each corner of the cape.
DOLL’S KNITTED SLEEVELESS SILK SWEATER
(See picture opposite page 230)
Material: Mercerized rose pink cotton No. 3, with turquoise blue cotton No. 3 for trimming; or crochet silk No. 3. Bone crochet hook No. 3. Bone knitting needles No. 3.
Directions:
To Make the Back:
1. With pink material cast on 36 stitches.
2. Knit 2, purl 2, for 20 rows, slipping off first stitch on each row.
3. Knit plain for 11 ribs. (A row across and back makes a rib.)
4. Knit 2 stitches off as one at each end, every other row, until there are only 28 stitches on the needle.
5. Knit plain until you have 20 ribs.
6. Bind off.
To Make the Front:
1. Cast on 36 stitches and follow directions for making the back until the 11 ribs of plain knitting are finished.
2. On the twelfth rib, narrow at each end by knitting first 2 and last 2 stitches together, making 34 stitches on the needle.
3. Slip 17 stitches on to a safety pin, keeping the remaining stitches on the needle.
4. Narrow by knitting 2 stitches together at each end every other row until there are 11 stitches; then narrow only on the neck edge, every other row until there are 8 stitches.
5. Knit ribs of 8 stitches until there are 23 ribs from the waist line to the shoulder, and bind off.
6. Take the stitches off the safety pin on to the needle; and make other side like the first.
Sew fronts and back of the sweater together under arms and on the shoulder lines.
With the blue cotton, put 2 rows of single crochet around the armholes and neck taking up each stitch.
HOW TO CAST ON STITCHES WITH KNITTING NEEDLES
1. Make a slip knot on one knitting needle near the end of the yarn.
2. Knit 1 stitch. (See page 162, To Knit a Stitch.) Do not take the stitch off the left-hand needle, but stretch the new stitch (which is on the right-hand needle) and slip it over the point of the left-hand needle. (See picture on page 261.) Hold the stitch on the left needle with the thumb of the left hand.
Continue to make new stitches and slip them on the left needle until there are the number of stitches required.[Q]
THE CONTINENTAL METHOD OF KNITTING
This method is a little more rapid than the Colonial or English method, but is not so much used. Notice the position of the hands in the picture.
To knit plain the straight thread on the second finger of the left hand is lifted with the point of the right needle. Cut 2.
A loop is drawn through; and the top loop on the left needle is drawn off the point of the left needle. Cut 3. Finish this row.
To purl, hold hand in same position as above. Slip the first stitch off the left needle. Put the point of the right needle under the thread which is fast to the ball, and lift it toward you over the left needle, holding the thread on the right needle with the right thumb.
Keeping the thread on top of the right needle put the point through the top of the first loop on the left needle, pointing the right needle toward the middle of the palm of the left hand.
Lift the point of the right needle toward you and over the thread. Push the point of the right needle backward through the loop on the left needle (which the right needle is already through) carrying the thread through the loop.
Slip the top loop off the point of the left needle.
TO CAST OFF STITCHES
(Another method of binding off work)
1. Slip the first stitch. 2. Pointing the left needle toward the first finger of the right hand, insert it in the slipped stitch _under_ the right needle. The two needles will now be crossed in the loop. 3. With the thumb and first finger of the left hand push this loop over and back of the next stitch on the left needle, and knit the next stitch, bringing the two loops off the left needle. Repeat to end.
In using the Continental Method, the thread is thrown as in purling.