GIRL’S CROCHETED HAND BAG
(Crazy Stitch)
(See picture opposite [page 104])
Material: Heavy mercerized Old Blue crochet cotton, about No. 5. Steel crochet hook, No. 3.
Directions:
This bag is made with
Crazy Stitch
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.