INFANT DOLL’S CROCHETED CAP
(See picture opposite [page 136])
Material: Three-fold pink or white Saxony, with three-fold deep pink Saxony for trimming. Bone crochet hook No. 2.
Directions:
1. Chain 3; that is, make 3 chain stitches. Join in a ring with slip stitch.
2. Chain 3, and make 16 double crochets in the ring. Join last double crochet with slip stitch to the top stitch of the 3 chain stitches. This makes the first row.
3. Second row: Chain 3. Make 2 double crochets in each stitch of first row, taking back thread (back loop of stitch) only. Join.
4. Third row: Chain 3, and make 1 double crochet in the first stitch of the row below. Make 2 double crochets in the second stitch. Continue to do this to end of row. Join.
5. Fourth row: Chain 3 and make 2 double in every third stitch. (Make 1 double crochet in the other stitches.) Join.
6. Fifth row: Make 2 double crochets in every fourth stitch.
7. Sixth row: Make 1 double crochet in each stitch of fifth row. Break off the yarn and fasten end.
8. Seventh row: In the ninth stitch from joining, fasten yarn and make 3 chain stitches.
9. Put 1 double crochet in each stitch of row below, leaving 16 stitches without any stitches taken in them. That is, leave 8 stitches on each side of the joining. This will be the back of the neck. Break off and fasten yarn.
10. Make 7 rows (in all) putting 1 double crochet in each stitch of row below. Break off wool and fasten at end of each row.
To Make Trimming Bands:
1. Hold the inside of the cap toward you, and fasten the trimming wool at the right-hand corner.
2. Make 3 chains. Put 1 double crochet in each stitch all around the cap. Join. Make 3 more rows like this.
Fold the band back against the face and up around the neck of the cap, folding the extra fulness at the corners into a mitered shape. Sew in place with a long-eyed needle threaded with pink wool, and fasten rosettes and tie-ribbons at the sides.
INFANT DOLL’S CROCHETED SACQUE NO. 1[L]
Material: Pink, or light blue, or white, four-fold Saxony wool. Bone crochet hook, No. 2.
Directions:
This work is commenced at the neck.
1. Chain 50; that is, make 50 chain stitches.
2. Make 11 double crochets.
3. Put 2 double crochets in the twelfth chain stitch.
4. Make 12 double crochets.
5. Put 3 double crochets in the thirteenth chain stitch.
6. Make 12 double crochets.
7. Put 2 double crochets in the next chain stitch.
8. Make 11 double crochets. Break off yarn and fasten end. Do not turn the work.
9. Second row: Attach yarn at right-hand end.
To Attach New Yarn
Put the needle through the stitch and put a slip knot on the hook. Draw the slip knot through the stitch; or, thread a zephyr needle with the new yarn and run it into the loose end on the work; or, twist the two ends of yarn together.
10. Chain 2. Taking the back loop only, make 12 double crochets. Put 3 double crochets in the next stitch.
11. Make 1 double crochet in each stitch until you reach the cluster of 3 double crochets. Put three double crochets in the middle double crochet of the cluster.
12. Make 1 double crochet in each stitch until the cluster of 2 double crochets is reached. Put 3 double crochets in the first of the 2 double crochets. Put 1 double crochet in each stitch to end of row. Break off yarn, and fasten end.
13. Third row: Attach yarn. Chain 2. Make 1 double crochet in each stitch except in middle stitch of clusters. Put 3 double crochets in the middle stitch of each cluster. Break off yarn and fasten.
14. Fourth and fifth rows: follow direction No. 13.
15. Sixth row: Same as fifth row, except that in starting, 2 double crochets are put into the first stitch; 2 double crochets are also put into the last stitch.
16. Seventh row: Chain 2. Turn the work.
17. Putting hook under both threads, make 1 double crochet in the next stitch. Chain 1. Skip 1 stitch. Put 1 double crochet in the next stitch.
To Form the Armhole:
18. Keep on in this way (see No. 17) until there are 7 double crochets. Make 12 chain stitches. Count 7 stitches from the middle stitch (counting the middle stitch) in the first cluster of double crochets in the sixth row. Put 1 double crochet in the eighth stitch beyond the middle stitch of the cluster.
19. Continue according to direction No. 17.
20. Put 2 double crochets, with 1 chain stitch between, in the middle stitch of the cluster of double crochet in the middle of the back of sacque.
Continue according to direction No. 17, until within 7 stitches from middle stitch of last cluster of double crochet in sixth row. Make 12 chain stitches and form other armhole. Continue by direction No. 17 to end of row.
21. Eighth row: Follow direction Nos. 16 and 17, putting 2 double crochets in the first and the last stitches of the row in order to widen the front. The double crochets are put under two threads in the chain stitches of the row just made.
22. Ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth rows: Like eighth row. Break off yarn and fasten end.
To Make the Sleeve:
1. Attach yarn to middle chain stitch underarm. Chain 2. Put double crochets all round the armhole. Join last stitch to chain with a slip stitch.
2. Next row. Chain 2. Put 1 double crochet in the next stitch. Chain 1. Put 1 double crochet in next stitch. Continue around row and join first and last stitches.
3. Continue direction No. 2 for 3 more rows. Narrow in the next 4 rows by omitting the chain between the double crochet every other stitch.
4. Chain 1. Put a row of single crochet around end of sleeve. Join.
5. Putting hook under back thread, make another row of single crochet. Break off yarn and fasten end.
To Make the Trimming:
The sacque in the picture is trimmed with a wool and silk Saxony yarn. It may be trimmed with the yarn used for the sacque.
1. At the left corner of the neck attach the yarn. Make slip stitches down left front to the first open space.
2. In the space, put 2 double crochets, and 1 chain, and 2 double crochets.
3. Make 1 single crochet in the next space.
4. Continue direction No. 2 to corner of sacque.
5. In the corner, put 3 double crochets, and 1 chain, and 3 double crochets.
6. Continue to make scallops in this way all around sacque, finishing edge of yoke part with single crochets as in direction No. 1 above.
Finish sacque at neck by drawing a ribbon runner under every other stitch.
FLOWERS FOR MOTHER
For Directions for Making Knitted Articles Shown in this Illustration See
Little Crocheted Hat—[206] Flower Basket—[246] Knitted Hood—[176]
Knitted Silk Sweater—[259] Baby’s Crocheted Ball—252
INFANT DOLL’S CROCHETED SACQUE NO. 2.[M]
(See picture opposite [page 136])
Material: Three-fold pink Saxony wool. Bone crochet needle No. 3. This needle should be a long even one, because the yoke of the sacque is made with
INFANT DOLL’S CROCHETED SACQUE NO. 2
Afghan Stitch
Before beginning the sacque, practice making afghan stitch with four-fold Germantown wool.
Make 9 chain stitches. Pull a loop through each stitch of the chain except the one next the needle. That is, skip one chain. See Cut 1, [page 233].
Pull a loop through the loop nearest the hook. Cut 2.
Pull a loop through the next two loops nearest the hook. Continue to pull a loop through two loops in this way (Cut 3) until only one loop remains on the needle.
You will now notice the long straight upright loops on the front, or the right side, of your work. Cut 4.
DETAILS OF AFGHAN STITCH
Put the hook under the nearest long loop on the front of the row of stitches just made, and pull a loop through. Cut 4. Continue to pull loops through the entire row in this way, and take the loops off the needle in the same way as they were pulled through the stitches in Cuts 2 and 3.
Directions for Making the Sacque:
Begin the work at back of yoke which is made with afghan stitch.
1. Chain 30; that is, make 30 chain stitches.
2. Keeping the last chain stitch on the hook, pull a loop through each stitch of the chain (except the one next to the needle) making 30 loops on the needle.
3. To take the stitches off, throw the yarn over the hook, pull hook through first loop. Throw yarn over the hook. Pull hook through 2 loops.
4. Continue to pull hook through 2 loops until but one loop remains on needle.
5. Pull a loop through each long loop (do not count the chain stitches on the edge as a long loop), leaving each on the needle. Do not turn the work, always work on the right side.
6. Repeat direction No. 3 and No. 4.
7. Make 10 rows of afghan stitch.
8. On the next row make loops in 10 stitches only—to form shoulder.
9. Make 6 rows of 10 stitches.
10. Now add 1 stitch, at the neck end only, on each row until there are 15 stitches.
To add a stitch.—Draw up a loop through the top thread between the loops of the row below. See “A” in Cut 4, [page 233].
11. Continue to work on these 15 stitches until there are 10 rows, or 26 rows from the starting of the yoke.
12. To make strip down the front.—Make slip stitch in 9 loops. Then work 13 rows of afghan stitches on the remaining 6 stitches. Finish end of strip with 1 row of slip stitches.
13. To make other side.—Fasten yarn at right corner of back of neck. Make slip stitches in 10 stitches, and make 6 rows of afghan stitches on the other 10 stitches.
14. Increase on this side by making the extra loop between the first and second stitches until there are 15 stitches.
15. Work on the 15 stitches until there are 26 rows from the starting of the back yoke.
16. Then make front strip of 13 rows on the first 6 stitches, and finish strip like on other side.
17. Make slip stitches all around yoke.
18. Fasten yarn at one lower corner of yoke, back. Chain 8 and fasten end stitch to one lower corner of yoke, front, for armhole.
19. Do the same for other armhole.
To Make Body of Sacque:
Fasten yarn at left side corner of yoke leaving about a 3-inch end hanging and work across bottom of yoke and across the under arm chain stitch in this way:
1. Put 1 slip stitch in first stitch.
2. Make 3 chain stitches.
3. Put 1 double crochet in same stitch with the slip stitch.
4. Chain 2.
5. Put 2 double crochets in same stitch.
6. Skip 2 stitches on bottom of yoke, and put 1 double crochet, 1 chain stitch, 2 double crochets in the next stitch. Continue in this way to end of yoke on right side. Break off yarn about 3 inches from the work and pull through the last stitch. The ends are used later to fasten the body of the sacque to the front strips.
7. Second row: Fasten yarn in the middle of the first scallop on the left side, leaving the end hanging. Chain 3. Put 1 double crochet in same stitch. Chain 2. Put 2 double crochets in same stitch, and continue to other end of yoke, making a scallop in the middle of each scallop.
8. Continue in this way until the body is as long as the strip in front.
9. Thread a long-eyed needle with the end of yarn hanging from the first scallops, and catch it to the front strip with an over-and-over stitch. Cut off yarn.
Continue to fasten fronts to scallops in this way until they are fastened down the full length of the fronts.
To Make the Sleeve:
1. Fasten yarn at corner of armhole. Chain 3, and make a scallop (as in body part of sacque) in first stitch.
2. Skip 4 of the slip stitches on the edge. Make a scallop in the next stitch. Continue in this way around the armhole.
3. Join last and first scallop with slip stitch.
4. Chain 3 and make another round of scallops and join.
5. Continue to make rounds of scallops until there are 7 rows.
6. On the next row, chain 3. Put 2 double crochets in the middle of each scallop in the row below.
7. Next row: Chain 3. Put 1 double crochet in each double crochet of row below. Break off and fasten yarn.
Make other sleeve like this one.
To Make Bands for Sleeves:
1. Chain 6, and make a strip of afghan stitches 14 rows long.
2. Finish all around strip with slip stitch.
3. Sew ends of band together, and slip it over the end of the sleeve, putting the seam to the seam of the sleeve, and sew in place with end of pink wool.
Trimming.—With pink silk, make a row of slip stitches all around the edge of the sacque, and ends of the sleeves.
Thread a zephyr needle with two threads of the silk, and make cross stitches on the front strips, and around the strips at ends of sleeves.
Fasten pink narrow ribbons at neck to tie.
INFANT DOLL’S CROCHETED CAPE AND HOOD[N]
(See picture opposite [page 136])
Material: Two-fold Saxony wool. Crochet silk (mercerized) for trimming. Bone crochet needle, No. 2.
Directions:
To Make the Hood.
1. With the Saxony, make 3 chain stitches.
2. Join them in a ring with a slip stitch.
3. Make 3 chain stitches, and make 16 double crochets in the ring.
4. Join the last double crochet with the top of the 3 chain stitches with a slip stitch. This makes the first row.
5. Second row: Make 3 chain stitches and put 2 double crochets in each double crochet of the first row. In making this garment, take up back loop of the stitch only. Join as in direction No. 4 (bottom of [page 236]).
6. Third row: Chain 3; that is, make 3 chain stitches. Put 1 double crochet in the first double crochet in the row below. Put 2 double crochets in the second double crochet. Continue in this way to the end of the row, and join as in direction No. 4.
CAPE AND HOOD
7. Fourth row: Chain 3 and put 2 double crochets in every third stitch. (Put 1 double crochet in the stitches between.) Do this to the end of the row and join.
8. Fifth row: Chain 3, and put 2 double crochets in every fourth stitch. Join.
9. Sixth row: Chain 3 and put 1 double crochet in each double crochet of the row below. Join and break off and fasten the yarn.
10. Seventh row: Fasten end of wool at the ninth stitch and make 3 chains. Put 1 double crochet in each stitch of row below, leaving 16 stitches without any stitches taken in them; that is, leave 8 stitches on each side of the joining. This will be the back of the neck.
11. Make 8 rows in all, putting 1 double crochet in each double crochet of row below, breaking off and fastening the yarn at end of each row. Begin the new row each time at the right side of the cap.
There is a turned-back facing around the face of the doll.
To Make the Facing:
Holding the wrong side of the cap toward you, make 4 rows of double crochet in the same way as in directions Nos. 10 and 11. Nothing more is to be done to this facing until after the cape is made.
To Make the Cape
This work is all done on the right side, holding cap toward you.
1. Starting at the right-hand corner of the neck, make 1 row of double crochet along the bottom edge of the cap. Break off and fasten yarn.
2. Second row: Fasten yarn at right end and make this row of double crochet, putting 3 double crochets in the fifteenth stitch from each end. These increases make the fulness over the shoulders.
3. Third row: Make this row of double crochet, putting 3 double crochets in the middle stitch of the increases in direction No. 2.
4. Fourth row: Make in same way, increasing as in No. 3. Also increase by making 2 double crochets in each of 2 stitches in the middle of the back.
5. Fifth and sixth rows: Same as fourth row.
6. Seventh row: This row is increased in the shoulders and middle of back in the same way as before, but more fulness is given by making 2 double crochets in the 2 middle stitches between the shoulder and the back on each side.
7. The eighth row is made in the same way as the seventh row.
8. Make 9 rows without increasing.
9. To fasten the loose ends of wool, thread them into a long-eyed needle and run the ends back into the work.
10. Starting at the neck at the left side, holding the outside of cape toward you, make single crochets in the ends of the first 2 rows of double crochet.
11. Make double crochet all around the cape except at the corners, where you will put 3 double crochets.
12. When you reach the first 2 rows on the right-hand side of the cape at neck, make single crochet as in the No. 10.
13. Put 1 single crochet in each stitch around the face holding the turn-back flat against the cap.
To Trim.—Fasten the pink silk at the left side of the neck, and put 1 single crochet, 2 chains and 3 double crochets in the first stitch.
2. Skip 2 stitches, and put 1 single crochet, 2 chains, and 3 double crochets in the third stitch.
3. Continue to do this all around the cape and the face of the hood or bonnet, and then around the edge of the turn-back.
4. Holding the face of the hood toward you, put a single crochet in the front loop of each stitch all around the first row of double crochet in the turn-back.
5. Do the same to the other 2 rows of the turn-back.