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.