To Make Chain Stitch

Cut[C] 1

Hold crochet hook and yarn in positions shown in this picture.

Cut 2

Pointing the hook away from you, turn it completely around, bringing a loop on the needle.

Cut 3

With thumb and second finger of left hand take hold of the crossed threads. Now point the hook under the yarn, and catch it on the hook. This is called “wrapping” the yarn.

Cut 4

Pull a loop through the loop which was on the needle.

Cut 5

Pull the loop closer up on the hook, and

Cut 6

Get ready to take another stitch.

Cut 7

Wrap, and draw another loop through the loop on the needle.

Cut 8

Keep on drawing loops through the stitches in this way until you have made quite a long row of chain stitches.

PLATE 1—Motion Pictures Showing How to Make Chain Stitch
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This time Mary Frances thought Crow Shay grinned at her. Then his face melted away, leaving nothing but the upturned line of his grin.

“My,” thought the little girl, “if he keeps on, I shall be sure to laugh;” but she paid strict attention to what her aunt told her.

“To begin with,” said Aunt Maria, “everybody who learns to crochet must learn how to make chain stitch. In order to learn how to make chain stitch you must do just as I have already shown you.”

Mary Frances tried again and again and was able at length to make chain stitch very well. She knew that Crow Shay helped her.

“Even though I seldom played with dolls when I was young,” said her aunt, “I believe that I can show you how to make some pretty necklaces for dolls by using this stitch. I used to make them and give them to my friends for their dolls.”

“Oh, how, Aunt Maria?” cried Mary Frances, delighted with the thought. “I’d just love to make one for Mary Marie!”

“Perhaps in this way,” said her aunt, giving her directions for making—