Woman’s Nightingale

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

MATERIALS

SUNLIGHT Shetland Floss

10 skeins white

3 skeins colored

1 Amber Crochet Hook, No. 4

4 yards Ribbon, 1½ inches wide

INSTRUCTIONS

(Written for white and blue.)

This garment is crocheted in one piece. The sleeves are tied up from the sides and trimmed with ribbon, and ribbon is also pulled through around neck.

Begin at neck with white yarn and make a chain of 85 stitches.

1st row: Make 3 double crochet in 4th stitch from needle. Make another group of 3 double crochet in 3rd stitch on chain and repeat this until you have 6 groups of 3 double crochet. Now make 3 double crochet, 1 chain and 3 more double crochet all in 3rd stitch on chain. This will increase 1 group of 3 double crochet. Repeat with 6 groups as before, 1 double group, 6 groups, 1 double group and 6 more groups. End 1st row with 1 chain and 1 double crochet in same place as last group, turn.

2nd row: Make a chain of 3 stitches; make 1 group between the double crochet and 1st group on preceding row. Repeat making 1 group between each group on preceding row and always make 2 groups with 1 chain between in every double group (3 double groups on the row). End 2nd row with 1 group, 1 chain and 1 double crochet between last group and the chain of 3 stitches, turn.

Repeat 2nd row until you have 32 rows from start.

Border, 1st row in blue: Begin at neck and make a single crochet in 1st space on front side; make a chain of 3 stitches and 2 double crochet in same space, then make shells of 5 double crochet in every other space on edge along the front sides and at bottom of garment and make 1 single crochet in space between each shell. Make 9 double crochet in the corner shells. End 1st row with a half shell.

2nd row in white, on other side of work: Make shells of 5 double crochet in the single crochet on preceding row and make the single crochet between the shells in center of shell on preceding row.

Make a shell of 5 double crochet in center of large shell and put the single crochet in 3rd stitch on each side of large shell.

115Repeat this increasing in corners when needed.

Repeat the 2nd row, alternating the blue until you have 6 rows in border.

Make last row in blue with a picot in center of each shell.

Picot: Make 3 double crochet (half of the shell), then make a chain of 3 stitches, a single crochet in the 2 loops below the chain and then 3 more double crochet to complete the shell.

Work 1 row in the single crochet around neck, making 2 stitches in each space.

Make another row for beading: * Make 1 double crochet, a chain of 3 stitches, 1 single crochet in 1st stitch on the chain and repeat from *, taking up in every other stitch on preceding row.

Sleeves: Double the garment at 1st and 3rd widenings and tie together both sides 10 inches from increasings on 1st and 2nd row above border; use the yarn double to tie with. This will form the sleeve.

Pull ribbon through in a few places above border and tie a bow on sleeve.

Draw ribbon through beading around neck.

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