Infant’s Double Hook Afghan

Size 1 yard square

For detail see Double Hook Afghan Stitch, page 27

MATERIALS

SUNLIGHT eight-fold Germantown

16 skeins white

1 skein colored

1 Amber double-end Crochet Hook, No. 5

INSTRUCTIONS

(Written for white and blue.)

Wind the yarn into 2 balls. Use 1 ball and make a chain 32 inches long.

1st row: Pick up with the hook 1 loop in each stitch on the chain, put yarn over hook and pull through 1 loop at a time.

2nd row: Take up the loops same as on 1st row in front on row below. Use the other ball and with the other hook pull through 1 loop at a time.

3rd row: Pick up the loops same as before with the same hook, then pull through with 1st hook and ball and repeat. Make the piece square.

Make the slip stitch (see first stitches) in the loops of the last row.

Work 1 row in the single crochet on both ends of afghan, making 2 stitches for each rib.

Border: 1st row in white: Make a loop on the hook, then * pick up 2 loops on the edge, 1 in each stitch, put yarn over hook, pull through all on needle (3 loops) and make a chain of 2 stitches. Skip 1 stitch on the edge and repeat from * to end of row, making it full enough in the corners.

2nd row, in blue: * Make a shell of 6 double crochet in a space on preceding row. Make 1 chain, take up 1 loop in 1st and 1 loop in 2nd space from shell; yarn over hook, pull through all on needle and make 1 chain. Repeat from * to end of row, making the shell larger in the corners.

3rd row, in white: Make a chain of 2 stitches and 1 single crochet in every stitch on the shell, taking up in double stitch. Make a slip stitch between the shells.

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