Materials Required:
¾ box Bear Brand Germantown, 8-fold.
5 skeins, Bear Brand Persian Lamb Wool.
1 amber crochet hook, No. 9.
Using the Germantown, chain 100 and work in double star stitch, as
follows: skip chain next to hook and take up a loop through each of the
next 5 chains, (6 loops on hook). Have the first 3 loops quite short,
the other 3 loops long. Wool over hook and through all 6 loops, ch. 1
snugly.
Second star: take up a loop through eye of first star (the little hole
formed by the stitch just made), another through the back twist of last
loop of first star, making 3 loops on hook. These are held quite short;
3 more loops, pulled long, are taken up, the first in the same stitch
with last loop of first star and 1 loop each in the next 2 chs. There
are again 6 loops upon the hook. Finish as with first star. Repeat
second star until the length of chs. has been used up, then fasten off.
The row should contain 48 stars and should measure thirty inches in
length.
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Second row: fasten wool at the very beginning of top of first row, ch.
3, take up a loop each in second and third chs. from hook, a fourth loop
in back of first loop in star below, a loop in eye of star below and a
sixth loop in back of first loop of second star below. Finish as usual.
Second star, take up second and third loops as in stars on the first row
and fourth, fifth and sixth loops as in star just made, finishing as
usual. Work across as with second star and again finish off.
The last loop of final star is taken in back loop of final star of first
row. Be sure there are as many stars as in first row.
Repeat the second row twice or until the stripe measures three and
one-half inches in depth. Draw Persian Lamb through the very beginning
of last row and make 1 single crochet stitch there. Continue making 1 s.
c. in each stitch to end of row, chain 1 and turn. Work 4 _more_ rows in
Persian Lamb, putting 1 s. c. in each stitch of preceding row and taking
up both threads of stitch. The Persian Lamb stripe should be two inches
deep.
Change to Germantown and make stripe, as before. Continue alternating
the Persian Lamb and Germantown stripes until there are 5 Germantown
stripes, in all.
Border: using the Persian Lamb, work all around the afghan in single
crochet, widening at corners by putting 3 s. c. in each corner on first
round; putting 2 s. c. in each corner on second round. Alternate first
and second rounds for the depth desired.