Little Daisy Afghan

For details see Old Afghan Stitch, page 27

MATERIALS

SUNLIGHT four-fold Germantown

10 skeins white

10 skeins colored

BLYDA Rope Silk—½ dozen skeins yellow

1 Celluloid Crochet Hook, No. 100

INSTRUCTIONS

(Written for pink, white and yellow.)

This afghan is made in strips of pink and white blocks, with a little daisy embroidered on the pink blocks.

Begin with the white yarn and make a chain of 25 stitches.

1st row: Take up 1 loop in each stitch on the chain (25 loops in all on needle), put yarn over hook and pull through 1 loop at a time.

2nd row: Pick up the loops in the loops on 1st row; put yarn over hook and pull through 3 loops, 1 at a time. * Make a chain of 2 stitches; yarn over and pull through 2 loops, 1 at a time, and repeat from * until you have 5 knots. Put yarn over hook and pull through 3 loops, 1 at a time, in center of row. Make the 5 knots and finish the row.

3rd row: Plain, same as 1st row. Make every other row plain. Repeat 2nd row between the plain rows, with the exception of making 2 knots less in center for each row, until there is 1 knot on each side of row. The next plain row will be the center row in the block.

Reverse the pattern. Make the last row plain. Start next block in pink.

1st row: Plain.

2nd row: Same as 1st row with exception of taking up the loops in back of the loops in preceding row. (This row is the purled Afghan Stitch.)

3rd row: Repeat 2nd row in 1st block.

Make this block like 1st block.

Repeat with 1 block in white and 1 block in pink, until you have 32 inches or the length desired, always making the row between the blocks (the purled afghan row) in pink.

Start 2nd strip in pink and 3rd strip in white and repeat the pattern.

Work border all around afghan.

1st row, in white: Make 1 single crochet, a chain of 3 stitches and 3 double crochet all in 1 stitch on the edge. Repeat this in every 4th stitch all around.

2nd row, in pink, on wrong side of afghan: Make 1 single crochet, a chain of 3 stitches and 3 double crochet in space between the double crochet and the chain of 3 stitches in preceding row and repeat.

893rd row, in white, on right side of afghan: * Make 1 single crochet in space between the double crochet and the chain of 3 stitches in preceding row; 1 chain and 1 double crochet in the single crochet below; make 1 chain and repeat from *.

4th row, in white, on same side: Make a shell of 6 double crochet in a space below; make 1 single crochet in 2nd and 1 in 3rd space from shell. Make next shell in 2nd space from the single crochet and repeat all around.

Last row, in pink: * Take up 1 loop on each side of a double crochet in the shell; yarn over, pull through the loops, make a chain of 3 stitches and repeat from *, making the 1st loop for the next stitch in same place as preceding stitch.

Make a little daisy in white in center of each pink block: Start in center of block and make a loop stitch, 1 inch in length. Repeat until you have 12 stitches around. Use the rope silk and make a long stitch (⅝ of an inch) between each loop. Make a few French knots in center.

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