LADY’S CROCHETED NECKLACE
(See picture opposite [page 200])
Material: Mercerized cotton, or silk—any color desired, 6 glass beads with large threading holes. Steel crochet hook No. 7.
Directions:
Make two balls first in this way:
How to Make Button Balls
1. Make 4 chain stitches. Join first and last stitches in a ring with a slip stitch.
2. Make 2 single crochets in each chain stitch. There will be 8 stitches. Do not join them. Work round and round.
3. Make 2 single crochets in each stitch of first row (16 stitches).
4. Make 6 rows of 16 stitches each, or 96 single crochets, working round and round.
5. Stuff this form just made with soft cotton, filling it until it is firm but not hard. Then draw in the top of the ball by making single crochets in every other stitch until the opening is closed.
Cut off the thread about 5 inches from the ball, and draw it through the last stitch. Leave the end hanging.
To Make the Chain:
1. Thread the 6 beads on the cotton and push them back near the spool.
2. Commencing about 5 inches from the end of the cotton, make 2 loose chain stitches. Pull out the loop of the second chain stitch until it is nearly ½ inch long.
To Make Bead Stitch:
3. Now throw the thread over the crochet needle; that is, “wrap,” (holding the chain stitch between the thumb and second finger of the left hand) and put the hook into the first chain stitch under 2 threads. Throw the thread over the needle and pull a long loop through the chain stitches, making it the length of the first drawn through.
Throw the thread over the crochet needle, or “wrap,” and draw another loop up on the hook in the same way.
Continue to wrap and draw up loops in this way until there are 7 loose loops on the crochet needle. (See picture.) Wrap once again, and draw a loose loop through all 7 loops already on the needle.
Wrap and draw a loop through the stitch then on the needle. Draw this stitch through until it is the length of the loops in the first cluster.
Holding the first cluster between the thumb and second finger of the left hand, wrap, and put hook through the loop just below the loop on the needle (at the right), and back of the single thread at the left. (See picture above.)
Draw up a loop.
Wrap; draw up a loop and continue to draw up loops until there are 7 loops on the needle. Wrap, and draw a loose loop through the seven loops. Make 1 loose chain stitch.
Make another cluster of stitches to form another bead.
After the third cluster is made, make 3 chain stitches, and slip 1 bead down the thread until it meets the chain. Put the hook through the hole in the bead, and catch the last chain stitch. Pull the bead down over the chain stitches.
Draw up the last loop of the chain about ½ inch, and make a cluster of stitches as in beginning the work.
Make 2 more clusters; add another bead.
Make 2 more clusters, and add one more bead.
Continue to make clusters until the chain is nearly as long as desired. Then add the beads as explained above and make 3 more clusters. Cut off thread about 5 inches from the end of the work, and make one chain stitch to fasten end, drawing it all the way through.
To Fasten Balls on Ends of the Chain:
Thread the end of cotton left on the chain into a long-eyed needle and sew with several stitches to the top of the ball, running the end well down into the ball to fasten it securely before cutting it off.