Material: Heavy mercerized Old Blue crochet cotton, about No. 5. Steel crochet hook, No. 3.
Directions:
This bag is made with
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.
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
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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]
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.
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.