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The Lady’s Album of Fancy Work (1850)1 picture
Old words in this patternThis pattern uses the old British crochet terms. Their double crochet is today’s single crochet, their treble is today’s double crochet, and their single crochet is today’s slip stitch.
What you needWhite, and three shades of scarlet and shaded green Berlin wool; Penelope crochet No. 2.
- With white make a chain of 84 stitches; work a row of single open crochet.—
- 2d row (lightest scarlet). 3 chain, 3 long, miss 2; repeat to the end.—
- 3d row (second shade of scarlet). 1 long worked in the centre long stitch of previous row, 5 chain; repeat.—
- 4th row (dark scarlet). 3 long worked above the long, and the last and first stitches of the chain, 4 chain; repeat.—
- 5th row (green). Commence in the edge stitch of third row. 5 chain, miss 3 *, 5 long, 3 chain, miss 1; repeat from *, and work to the end, which must be finished with 5 chain, 1 plain, worked in the third row.—
- 6th row (white). Commence at the edge-stitch of the third row. 6 chain, * 5 plain worked above the 5 long of previous row, 4 chain: repeat from * to the end, and finish with 6 chain. Fasten the white wool to the second stitch of fourth row, 6 chain, 3 plain worked above the 3 long of fourth row; repeat. Pass through every second stitch of white row, and place a rosette of ribbon at the end.
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