Doll’s Crocheted Bedroom Slippers
(See picture opposite [page 200])
Material: Pink or light blue Germantown zephyr. Bone crochet hook No. 3.
Directions:
The work is begun at the toe of the slipper. See “A” in the picture on [page 109].
1. Make 8 chain stitches.
2. Skip 1 chain, and put 1 single crochet in each of 3 chain stitches.
3. Put 3 single crochets in the fourth chain stitch.
4. Put 1 single crochet in the next 3 chain stitches. Make 1 chain to use in turning. (In single crochet work, always make 1 chain in turning.)
5. Second row: Put 1 single crochet in each stitch, taking the back thread only of the stitch. (The first and second rows form a “rib.” The slippers are made of “ribs.”)
6. Third row: Put 1 single crochet in each of 4 stitches. Put 3 single crochets in the fifth stitch. Put 1 single crochet in each of the next 4 stitches.
Note.—The adding of stitches, as in the fifth stitch, is called “increasing.”
7. Fourth row: Put 1 single crochet in each stitch.
8. Fifth row: Increase as in direction No. 6 in sixth stitch.
9. Sixth row: 1 single crochet in each stitch.
This row completes the toe part, or front of the slipper.
10. Seventh row: This row starts the sides. Make 1 single crochet in each of 6 stitches. Make 1 chain to turn.
11. Eighth row: Make 1 single crochet in each stitch. Make 9 ribs for the sides of the slipper.
To Join Side to Toe
Hold the edge of the ninth rib (D) to edge of opposite side of front (C), right sides facing each other. (See picture [page 109].)
Join edges with single crochet stitches, taking up 1 loop only of the stitches forming the ribs.
To Form the Toe
Fold tip of toe together, bringing A to B. (See [page 109].)
Thread a darning or zephyr needle with yarn and sew tip of slipper toe together.
To Make Top of Slipper
Spaces for runners are made in this way: Starting[E] at corner at right side of top (A), make 2 chain stitches. Join them with a slip stitch to the point at the top of the nearest rib.
Continue in this way all around top of slipper.
To Make Trimming at Top
Make 3 chain stitches. Put crochet hook through the first runner space and make a slip stitch. Make 3 chains and put a slip stitch in the next runner space. Continue all around top of slipper.
To Make Runner
Make a chain of 45 chain stitches.
Thread this into the runner spaces just as in making doll’s petticoat (see [page 90]), and put tassels on the ends.
To Make Tassels
(See pictures on [opposite page])
1. Cut a piece of cardboard 1 inch long and ½ inch wide.
2. Over this, wind a strand of yarn 10 times.
3. Thread a long-eyed zephyr needle with yarn. Slip it under the yarn on the cardboard and tie it together at the top.
4. Clip the yarn apart at the other edge of the card.
Hold the clipped ends between the thumb and fingers of the left hand, and tie the tassel with a piece of yarn, to look like picture No. 3.
Thread the ends of the tie-string into a long-eyed needle. Pull the ends down through the middle of the tassel and cut them off even with the bottom.
Thread a zephyr needle with both ends of yarn at top of tassel and pull needle through one end of the runner.
Fasten the ends by pulling needle through tassel from the top. Cut off ends even with tassel fringe. (See picture No. 4.)
To Make Slipper Soles
Lay doll’s shoe on a piece of light-weight cardboard and mark it with a pencil; cut it out. Or trace the outline below, and use it as a pattern.
Thread zephyr needle with yarn, and sew slipper to sole.
When the Yarn Baby had finished giving the long directions for the slippers, Crow Shay, who had been very quiet, could not keep still another second.
“Whew! Yarn Baby!” he broke in. “Whew! How do you know so much? You certainly are a woolly-headed know-it-all!”
At first the Yarn Baby did not know what to say to this impudent speech. Then her hair stood up stiff and straight.
“If I’m—if I’m a woolly-head,” she cried, “you’re an old bone-head! So you are! So there!”
Crow Shay grew pale, stood up on end and started for the Yarn Baby, when Wooley Ball just rolled in his way and Crow Shay pitched over her, head first.
“Mind your manners, Crow Shay! Mind your manners!” said Wooley Ball calmly.
All the Knitting People laughed merrily at Crow Shay’s silly caper, except poor Crow Shay, who looked a little ashamed of himself.
