A ROSE SCARF
“WHAT color would you like to use for Mary Marie’s scarf, little Miss?”
asked the Yarn Baby.
“I think this is pretty,” answered Mary Frances, lifting a ball of
rose-colored Germantown zephyr.
“Mary Marie arose, arose,
‘A rose,’ she cried, ‘A rose
Scarf, I propose,’”
said Crow Shay.
[Illustration: “Mary Marie arose, arose”]
[Illustration: “Will you keep still!”]
“Will you keep still!” screamed the Yarn Baby, her hair standing out
in all directions. At least she tried to scream, but her voice sounded
like a zephyr wind. “You are so full of mischief, I don’t see how you
will do any work to-day,” she added.
“I love to work,
I never shirk,
Nor do I jerk my work
When I do work,”
sang Crow Shay.
[Illustration: Sang Crow Shay.]
[Illustration]
“You generally do work pretty well,” admitted the Yarn Baby, “but you
are pretty slow sometimes.”
[Illustration: “You work pretty well.”] “We haven’t been very fast
about getting those directions,” said Crow Shay.
The Yarn Baby took the hint and gave the directions for—
DOLL’S CROCHETED SCARF
(See picture opposite page 40—color plate)
Material: Rose color, or blue four-fold Germantown zephyr.
Gray Germantown zephyr for trimming.
Bone crochet hook No. 5.
Directions:
1. With the rose or blue wool, make 7 chain stitches.
Turn the work.
2. Skip 1 chain stitch. Make 6 single crochet stitches
into the 6 chain stitches. (See picture of single
crochet stitch, opposite page 51.)
3. Make 1 chain stitch to use in turning for the next
row of stitches; that is, after having the chain stitch
on the needle, turn the work over, and work on the
other side.
4. Make 62 rows of single crochet stitches, putting the
crochet hook through the 2 threads or loops at the top
of each stitch of the row below.
5. Break off the yarn, and fasten the end by making a
chain stitch and pulling the yarn all the way through
the chain stitch.
[Illustration: Fringe]
[Illustration: Dolly’s Scarf.]
[Illustration: HOW TO MAKE FRINGE]
_To Make Fringe_
(See picture on page 70)
1. Cut 2 strands of gray wool, making each 3 inches
long. Lay them together, side by side.
2. Put hook through the first stitch on one end of
the scarf. Catch the 2 strands of gray yarn in the
middle. Pull part way through the stitch.
3. Throw the 4 ends of wool over the hook and pull them
all the way through the loop on the needle.
4. Take hold of the 4 ends of gray wool with the finger
and thumb of your right hand, holding scarf between
first finger and thumb of left hand with thumb close to
the loop of the fringe. Pull gray yarn until the loop
is tight.
Always pull the fringe through from the same side of
the work.
5. Continue making fringe all across the two ends of
the scarf.
Mary Frances worked hard, and Crow Shay helped with all his might, but
the little girl’s fingers seemed very awkward.
“Little Miss, you are doing nicely, but you pull the yarn too tight,”
said the Yarn Baby, who was watching her work most carefully.
[Illustration: “You pull the yarn too tight.”]
Mary Frances noticed how smooth her hair looked. She knew the Yarn Baby
was not displeased.
“I know I hold my work tight,” she said. “My fingers just won’t let go
of the yarn.”
“If you are inclined to make your stitches too tight, use a larger
crochet hook,” said the Yarn Baby.
[Illustration: Crow Shay looked frightened]
Crow Shay looked so frightened that Mary Frances wanted to laugh; but
she was afraid that if she did it would hurt his feelings, so she only
said, “I think that I can manage better soon.”
“If your work curls up when you have finished,” said the Yarn Baby,
“lay it under a damp cloth or a damp towel over night. When it is dry
it will be quite smooth.”
“Dampness always takes the curl out of my hair,” laughed Mary Frances,
working away.
The Crochet People helped whenever she made a mistake, and the Yarn
Baby repeated the directions when she asked about them. She had not
quite finished the scarf when Katie called her to lunch.
[Illustration: “Under a damp cloth”]
[Illustration: Katie called her to lunch.]
[Illustration: LET US PLAY BALL
FOR DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING KNITTED ARTICLES SHOWN IN THIS ILLUSTRATION
SEE
CROCHETED SHAWL—75 KNITTED SHAWL—171
KNITTED SPORTS SWEATER—201 CROCHETED SPORTS HAT—240]