MARY MARIE’S TURBAN
“PLEASE let us hear the new directions, Yarn Baby,” Fairly Flew said.
And then the Yarn Baby began:
DOLL’S CROCHETED TURBAN (HAT)
(See the picture opposite page 40—color plate)
Material: Old rose or blue four-fold Germantown zephyr.
Gray Germantown zephyr for trimming.
Bone crochet hook No. 5.
Directions:
_To Make the Top of the Crown of the Hat_
1. With rose or blue yarn make 5 chain stitches.
2. Join the chain in a ring with slip stitch.
3. Make 1 chain stitch.
[Illustration: “Please.”]
[Illustration: Yarn Baby began.]
[Illustration: DOLL’S CROCHETED TURBAN (HAT)]
[Illustration: “Use me.”]
[Illustration: Germantown zephyr.]
4. Put 2 single crochet stitches in each chain stitch
in the ring (10 single crochet stitches in all). Tie a
piece of sewing cotton in the last stitch to mark end
of row. (See picture A, page 101.)
NOTE.—In making the turban, put the crochet hook
through back loop only of the stitches already made.
(See picture A, page 101.)
5. Second row: Put 2 single crochets in each stitch.
6. Third row: Put 1 single crochet in each of the first
2 stitches. Put 2 single crochets in third stitch.
NOTE.—When 2 or more stitches are put into 1 stitch in
this way, it makes the work fuller or larger. This is
called “increasing.”
Put 1 single crochet in each of the next 2 stitches.
Put 2 single crochets in next stitch. Continue in this
way until end of this row.
7. Fourth row: Same as third row.
8. Fifth row: Increase, by putting 2 single crochets
in every fifth stitch, and continue in this way until
there are 8 full rows.
[Illustration: A]
_To Make the Side of Crown, or the Band_
1. Make 58 chain stitches. Join in a ring with slip
stitch.
2. Make 1 single crochet in each stitch of the chain.
3. Second row: Put 1 single crochet in each single
crochet, taking up back loop only. Continue doing this
until there are 6 full rows.
The turned-up band of gray is made in the same way as
the band just finished.
[Illustration: B]
[Illustration: To increase]
_To Put Turban Together_
[Illustration: Join in a ring.]
1. Hold the right side of the crown toward you. Hold
the top edge of the rose or blue band (not the
chain-stitched edge) to the edge of the crown. Baste
edges together. Catch edges of crown and band together
with single crochet stitches.
2. Place gray band inside of the rose or blue band,
with the right side against the inside (or wrong side)
of the rose or blue band. Thread a zephyr needle or a
darning needle with gray yarn, and sew the edges neatly
together. (Picture B on page 101 shows the two bands
spread open after they have been sewed together.)
3. Turn the gray band up on the outside of turban and
sew a rosette on the left side of the crown and on the
turned-up band.
_To Make Rosette_
Lay the ends of the two colors of zephyr together side
by side.
With a large crochet hook (about No. 8) make 45 chain
stitches. Break off yarns and fasten ends.
Form the chain into 6 flat loops and sew on left side
of turban, using gray yarn in a zephyr or darning
needle.
[Illustration: To make rosette.]
As soon as it was finished, Mary Frances put the turban on Mary Marie.
Then she put the scarf which matched it around the dolly’s neck.
“Doesn’t she look sweet!” she exclaimed. “I’ll let you all kiss her.”
“Oh, excuse—!” began Crow Shay, but he never finished the sentence, for
there came a voice at the door. It was Katie’s voice.
[Illustration: “Doesn’t she look sweet!”]
“Miss Mary Frances! You haven’t been out at all to-day!” she said.
“Your mother wouldn’t like that.”
Mary Frances ran to the door. “Why, Katie, that’s so! I must go out.
I’ll get ready right away. I’ve been doing some crocheting.”
“That’s fine,” Katie said. “I wish I knew how to crochet.”
“Maybe I can teach you some time after I learn more myself,” said Mary
Frances.
“I should love to learn.” Katie looked pleased. “Well, I must be about
my work now,” she added, and went downstairs again.
[Illustration: “I should love to.”]
When Mary Frances turned back to the sewing table nothing was to be
seen but the empty rocking-chair and the knitting bag.
“Oh, dear,” she thought, “where can everybody be?”
She lifted the bag. Underneath was Mary Marie just as she had dressed
her.
She put her hand into the bag and found Wooley Ball and the Yarn Baby,
but could not find Crow Shay.
“What is the little rascal hiding for?” she wondered.
[Illustration: Out popped Crow Shay.]
“Look in the chest of yarns,” said Wooley Ball.
Mary Frances opened the lid. Out popped Crow Shay’s little round head.
“So scared was I,
I thought I’d die;
So ran and hid—
That’s why! That’s why!”
he sang.
[Illustration: “So scared was I.”]
“And Fairly Flew,” asked Mary Frances; “where is she?”
[Illustration: “Where is she?”]
“She’s gone! She’s gone!
Been gone before;
But she’ll come back
Some more, some more,”
promised Crow Shay, and the little girl went happily out to play.
[Illustration: GOING SHOPPING
FOR DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING KNITTED ARTICLES SHOWN IN THIS ILLUSTRATION
SEE SHOPPING BAG—242 CROCHETED HAND BAG—248 CROCHETED PURSE—255
CROCHETED WOOL FLOSS SCARF—84 CROCHETED TOQUE OR CAP—93]