Dresden Baby Cap
Materials Required:
2 skeins Bear Brand Saxony, 3-fold.
1 skein each, Glossilla Rope, Nos. 264, 200, 108.
1 pair amber knitting pins, No. 2 (10 in. long.)
1 amber crochet hook, No. 2 (10 inches long).
Chain 16 and work in afghan stitch for 2 rows. On the third row widen one stitch when beginning and ending row by picking up an extra loop. Continue to work in afghan stitch, widening, as before, on the sixth, eleventh, fifteenth and twentieth rows. On each of the next seven rows narrow one stitch at each end of row by picking up 2 perpendicular threads together. This completes the back of cap.
Front band: chain 122 and make 13 rows in afghan stitch, finishing final row as directed for Dresden Baby Coat.
The center of cap is in Cro-Knitting. It is begun at the front. Using the knitting pins cast on 118 stitches and work as directed for lower part of coat.
On the third row of second pattern, work as follows: k. 28, * k. 2 in the next stitch, k. 1 and repeat from * until 28 stitches remain, k. 28. Continue without further increase until there are 11 patterns, in all, then knit 3 rows and bind off.
Join the Cro-Knitted center to the front with slip stitches worked on the wrong side. Draw the other edge in on a gathering thread of wool and sew around the back of crown.
Around the entire cap and the joinings work in pearls, as directed for coat.
Embroider the Dresden figures, as illustrated.
Line the cap with silk.