Woman’s Crocheted Mittens

For detail see First Stitches—Crocheting, pages 10–11

MATERIALS

SUNLIGHT Saxony—2 skeins

1 6-inch Bone Crochet Hook, No. 3

INSTRUCTIONS

Make a chain of 40 stitches.

Join and make 8 rows in the single crochet, taking up in the double stitch.

Start increasing for thumb.

1st row: Make 2 single crochet in 1 stitch on preceding row; that will increase 1 stitch. Make 1 single crochet and increase 1 more.

Repeat this increasing of 2 stitches every 2nd row, 10 times more, always having the 2 additional stitches between the 2 increasing places.

Take the 22 stitches increased, join and work the thumb.

Decrease 1 stitch in back of thumb every row, 4 times (18 around).

Make 9 rows, then decrease every 3rd stitch until finished.

Now continue with the 40 stitches for hand and make 22 rows from base of thumb.

Next row: Decrease 1 stitch on each side of hand. Make 1 row plain, then repeat decreasing 2 stitches for every row, 7 more times.

Crochet together the remaining stitches with the slip stitch: Put the hook through 1 stitch from each side of mitten, yarn over hook, pull through and repeat until finished.

Border: 1st row: Make the slip stitch on the chain.

2nd row: Make the double crochet, taking up in 1st row of the single crochet (over the row of the slip stitch and the chain), join.

3rd row: Make a chain of 3 stitches. Make 1 double crochet between 2nd and 3rd double crochet on preceding row. Work another double crochet across this one between 1st and 2nd double crochet.

Repeat the cross stitch over every 2nd double crochet on preceding row.

4th row: Same as 3rd row.

5th row: Make the double crochet, increasing 1 stitch in every 3rd cross.

Make 2 rows in the cross stitch same as before and finish off with a picot edge.

Picot: * Make a single crochet between 2 crosses; a chain of 3 stitches, 1 single crochet in 1st stitch on the chain and repeat from * to end of row.

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