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.
DOLL’S SPORTS SWEATER
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.