Slumber Robe

For detail see Robe Stitch, page 36

Size 54×64 inches

MATERIALS

SUNLIGHT four-fold Germantown—60 skeins

6 shades of one color

20 skeins of lightest shade and 8 skeins of each of the other shades

BLYDA Rope Silk according to pattern

1 Celluloid Crochet Hook, No. 100

INSTRUCTIONS

(Written for six shades in brown.)

This slumber robe is made of 5 panels—3 shaded and 2 plain ones. The plain panels are make in the lightest shade of brown and decorated with a simple cross stitch pattern in the medium shade of brown rope silk.

Start with the lightest shade and make a chain of 48 stitches for the plain panel.

Take up with the hook 1 loop in each stitch on the chain, 48 stitches in all on needle; then put yarn over hook and pull through 1 loop at a time.

2nd row: Take up in the loops from row below and pull through same as on 1st row. Repeat 2nd row for the length of 60 inches. Make another panel like this one.

Work the shaded panel lengthwise. Begin with the darkest shade and make 1 row of single crochet along the side of one of the light panels, turn.

2nd row: Work this row same as preceding row in the single crochet, taking up in the double stitch; make 1 chain, turn.

3rd row: Make 1 single crochet; put yarn over hook and take up 1 loop below in 1st stitch on the light panel. Put yarn over and pull through 2 loops. Yarn over hook and take up another loop in same place as 1st loop; then yarn over, pull through 2 loops, yarn over and pull through 3 loops. Skip 1 stitch on row below for this Robe stitch and make 3 single crochet, 1 in each stitch.

Repeat 1 robe stitch and 3 single crochet to end of row; make 1 chain, turn.

4th row: The single crochet; make 1 chain, turn.

5th row: Make 3 single crochet; then repeat 3rd row, alternating the robe stitches and making them in the single crochet, below, on 3rd row from top (take up from right to left in the single crochet). Repeat 4th and 5th rows for the whole panel.

Begin with next shade lighter on 7th row. Repeat with 4 rows for each shade until you come to the lightest shade, which will be the middle of the panel, then reverse the shades. Work the last row of panel in the single crochet.

Make another shaded panel like this one on other side of plain panel, and let the row with the robe stitches be the last row on that panel; then sew same panel together with 2nd plain one. Start 3rd shaded panel same as before on other side of the 2nd plain panel.

87For border all around afghan, make 4 rows of shells and for each row change for the next darker shade.

1st row: Begin with shade next to the lightest and make shells of 6 double crochet, with 1 single crochet between.

Work the 6 double crochet all in one place over one row below, and make the single crochet 4 stitches from the shell in the double stitch on top of row below.

2nd row: Work on same side of afghan, make the shell in the single crochet on row below, and work the single crochet on top of the shell on row below.

3rd row: Same as 2nd.

4th row: Make 7 double crochet in the shells.

Finish off the shells all around with 1 row in the darkest shade: Take up 1 short loop on each side of a double crochet, yarn over and pull through at once. Make a chain of 2 stitches and repeat taking up in same place as last loop and on other side of the double crochet.

Make a cross stitch pattern in medium shade of brown rope silk on the plain panel.

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