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.
CURLY STITCH