A CROCHETED INFANT CAP- PATTERN OF 1913

A CROCHETED INFANT CAP- PATTERN OF 1913

Designed by Helen Marvin 

 The infant's hood illustrated is crocheted in a new way that makes it very shapely. It takes two ounces of Angora and is crocheted loosely with a No 4 bone crochet hook. 
Begin at the center of the crown with eight chain stitches, turn, and on the chain work seven single crochet.

Second Row 

Turn, two single crochet in each stitch of preceding row, picked up on the double thread.  

Third Row 

Two single crochet in first stitch, one single crochet in the next, and repeat to the end of the row. On the fourth row increase in the first and every third stitch; in the fifth row increase in the first and every fourth stitch; and so continue, always allowing an extra stitch between the increasings, until twelve rows in all are made. This completes the crown. 

Now leave seven stitches at either end of the row, and on the stitches between work back and forth, without increasing, for ten rows. Some short rows will now be worked across the center, to lengthen the top of the hood as follows: 

stitch work one slip-stitch, turn, chain one, skip the slip-stitch, one single crochet in each stitch to the fifteenth beyond the center at the other side, one slip-stitch in next stitch, turn, chain one, skip the slip stitch, one single crochet in each stitch to the end of the preceding long row. Then make a row the entire way across, working in the usual manner. 

For the second gore turn and work to the tenth stitch beyond the center, one slip-stitch in the next stitch, turn, chain one, skip the slip-stitch, single crochet to the end of preceding long row. Make one row across the entire width, when the hood should be large enough to reach to the forehead, measuring from the first row held at the center of the crown to the last row at the forehead. If it is not large enough, add the necessary number of rows. Then on the next row narrow over the forehead as follows:

Work as usual until the eight center stitches of the row are reached. Pick up a loop in each of the first two stitches and draw through all three loops. Do the same with each of the next two stitches until the eight center stitches have been narrowed to four stitches; then finish the row in the usual manner, make four rows without change,  four rows increasing one stitch at the center, and nine rows without increasing. Crochet up the back of the crown by folding on the center of the first row and crocheting the two sides together to the ends of the last increased row, then single crochet around all the edges of the hood, and fasten off.  Fold back the front the hood on the two rows after the narrowed row, and shape the back of neck by sewing the sides together on a seam made diagonally across the six rows preceding the first row after the in creased rows. The seam should begin at the ends of this row and cross to center crown-joining. 

 

REFERENCES:

Ladies Home Companion 1913