A LITTLE PETTICOAT
“WHAT comes next?” Fairly Flew asked the Yarn Baby.
“Next,” answered the Yarn Baby, “we planned to show the little Miss how
to make another scarf for Mary Marie.”
[Illustration: “She hasn’t two necks.”]
“Mary Marie hasn’t two necks,” whispered Crow Shay.
[Illustration: “Hush!” warned Wooley Ball.]
“Hush!” warned Wooley Ball as she noticed the Yarn Baby’s hair begin to
rise. “You will get into trouble if you don’t!”
“There will be caps or hats made to match the little scarfs,” went on
the Yarn Baby, turning to Mary Frances. “You will know how to make this
scarf as soon as you hear the directions:
DOLL’S CROCHETED WOOL FLOSS SCARF
(See picture opposite page 104—color plate)
Be sure to make Doll’s Shawl, page 75, before
attempting to make this scarf.
Material: Old rose wool floss. Gray floss for trimming.
Bone crochet hook No. 3
Directions:
1. With rose floss make 13 chain stitches.
2. Skip 1 chain stitch, and make 12 single crochet
stitches.
3. Make 1 chain stitch to use in turning.
4. Putting hook through the 2 loops at the top of
stitches just made, make 4 rows of the old rose floss.
5. Make 2 rows of the gray floss.
6. Make 2 rows of the old rose floss.
7. Make 2 rows of gray floss.
8. Make 90 rows of the old rose floss.
9. Make 2 rows of the gray floss.
10. Make 2 rows of the rose floss.
11. Make 2 rows of the gray floss.
[Illustration: Mary Marie.]
[Illustration: Old rose; gray floss]
12. Make 4 rows of the rose floss. Break off yarn and
fasten. Trim ends of scarf with fringe.
Make the fringe exactly like fringe on ends of Doll’s
Scarf, page 70.
Mary Frances found the old rose and gray flosses, and set about making
the scarf. It was very little trouble, for the magic needle darted
ahead just as in making the shawl, and very soon the little scarf was
finished.
“Isn’t it pretty?” cried Mary Frances. “How happy I shall be to make
the caps or hats. Do they come next?”
[Illustration: “No, not yet.”]
“No,” answered the Yarn Baby, “not yet.”
“I will tell you why,” said Fairly Flew. “It is because they would be
too difficult for you to make now. You must learn to make the simplest
things first. Then you will climb right up in the work.”
“She hasn’t made anything in double crochet stitch,” Crow Shay
whispered to Wooley Ball.
“I know,” whispered Wooley Ball. “Wouldn’t it be nice if she could make
her dolly a warm petticoat with double crochet stitch?”
[Illustration: Crow Shay whispered.]
[Illustration: “I wish I had one.”]
“Indeed it would,” Crow Shay whispered again. “I often wish I had one.”
“Had what?” asked Wooley Ball.
“A petticoat, of course,” Crow Shay answered.
“That is just what comes next,” said the Yarn Baby, overhearing, “and I
will give the directions at once.”
[Illustration: DOLL’S PETTICOAT]
[Illustration: “Just what comes next.”]
[Illustration: READY FOR BREAKFAST.]
DOLL’S CROCHETED PETTICOAT
(See pictures on pages 86 and 87)
Made by working round and round from top downward.
Material: White wool floss.
Bone crochet hook No. 2.
Directions:
1. Make 48 chain stitches.
2. Join the last chain stitch to the first chain stitch
with a slip stitch. (See picture below—A.)
[Illustration: Crocheted petticoat.]
[Illustration: A]
[Illustration: B]
3. Make 3 chain stitches.
4. Put 1 double crochet stitch (see page 53) into each
chain stitch. Join the last double crochet stitch with
the top of the 3 chain stitches (see direction number
3, above) with a slip stitch. This makes the first row
of stitches. (See picture above—B.)
5. Second row: Make 3 chain stitches, and make 1 double
crochet in each stitch of first row putting hook under
both threads. Join, as in first row.
[Illustration: White wool floss.]
_How to “Increase” in Crocheting_
6. Third row: Make in same way as second row, but
increase, or widen, the petticoat by putting 2 double
crochet stitches in every sixth stitch.
7. Fourth row: Like third row.
8. Fifth row: Like third row.
9. Sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh
rows: Like second row—that is, with no widening or
increasing.
10. Twelfth and last row: “Increase,” by putting 2
double crochet stitches in every sixth stitch.
Trim bottom of petticoat with scallops.
_To Make the Scallops_
1. Put 1 single crochet stitch in the first double
crochet stitch made on the tenth row.
2. Make 2 chain stitches.
3. Put 3 double crochet stitches in the same stitch
where the 1 single crochet stitch was put.
4. Skip 2 double crochet stitches in the last row of
double crochet stitches of the petticoat. Put 1 single
crochet into the third stitch.
[Illustration: Crow Shay looks on.]
[Illustration: Scallops.]
5. Make 2 chain stitches.
6. Put 3 double crochet stitches into the same stitch
as the single crochet.
Continue in same way until scallops are made all around
the petticoat.
Fasten the petticoat at waist with a runner.
_To Make the Runner_
[Illustration]
1. Cut a piece of floss about 1½ yards long.
2. Fold it in the middle, and with the doubled floss,
make a long chain of chain stitches.
3. Putting the crochet hook through the stitches at the
top of the petticoat, pull the runner through. (See
picture above.)
[Illustration: “How lovely and warm!”]
“How lovely and warm Mary Marie will be!” exclaimed Mary Frances as
she finished the little petticoat with the help of Fairly Flew’s magic
needle.
“Do not let her wear that in summer,” said the Yarn Baby.
[Illustration: “Do not wear it in summer.”]
“If you do she’ll surely roast
And be eaten up for toast,”
added Crow Shay. Then he looked around to see if anyone would chide him
for speaking.
[Illustration: He looked around.]
Just as he expected, the Yarn Baby’s hair began to stand up on end;
but Fairly Flew only laughed and said, “Oh, now, Yarn Baby, don’t get
ruffled. Let him make a little fun for us all.”
The Yarn Baby’s hair settled down smoothly in place, and Crow Shay did
look as though he would like to crow for sure, but he was very polite
and kept quiet.
[Illustration: Her hair began to stand on end.]
[Illustration: “You surely will surprise them.”]