The Mary Frances knitting and crocheting book

by Jane Eayre Fryer

INFANT DOLL’S CROCHETED SOCKS

(See pictures opposite [pages 136] and [200]—color plates)

Material: Three-fold Saxony wool. Pink or blue (mercerized) silk for trimming. Bone crochet hook No. 2.

Directions:

The work is begun with the ankle part.

1. Chain 15; that is, make 15 chain stitches.

2. Skip 1 chain and put 1 single crochet in each of the 14 stitches. Chain 1 to use in turning.

3. Taking the back thread only, make 1 single crochet in each of the 14 single crochets. The two rows just made will form a rib. This kind of rib is called “slipper stitch.” Make 1 chain in turning.

4. Make 2 more ribs like the one just made. Make 1 chain in turning.

5. Make 8 single crochet and 1 chain stitch.

Make 8 single crochet. These two rows of single crochet will form a shorter rib. Make 1 chain stitch.

6. Make 8 more ribs on the 8 stitches.

7. Join the last row of stitches with 8 of the first chain stitches made, using slip stitch.

To Form the Foot:

8. Put 1 single crochet in each stitch around the bottom of the part just made, taking up both threads.

9. Make 4 more rows.

10. Fold sock together from toe to back, and crochet together with slip stitch.

To Make the Scallops:

1. Fasten the wool into the top of the sock at the back, and make 1 single crochet.

2. Put 4 double crochets in the top of the next rib.

3. Put 1 single crochet in the top of the next rib.

4. Repeat No. 2 and 3 around the top of the sock. Break wool and fasten.

5. Fasten the trimming silk into the top of the scallop at the back of the sock. Make 1 single crochet.

6. Make 5 double crochets in the single crochet stitch between the scallops of wool.

7. Repeat No. 5 and 6 around top of sock. Fasten the silk.

To Make the Runner.—With the silk make about 35 chain stitches. Run these through the top of the sock at the bottom of the white scallops and fasten a small tassel on each end of the runner.

For trimming, thread a sewing needle with the pink silk and make 4 cross stitches on the center rib. Make 1 cross stitch on each side of the second cross stitch from the top cross stitch.