Dresden Baby Afghan
Materials Required:
11 skeins white, Bear Brand Germantown, 4-fold.
2 skeins green Glossilla Rope, No. 264.
2 skeins blue Glossilla Rope, No. 108.
1 skein pink Glossilla Rope, No. 200.
1 pair amber knitting pins, No. 4, 14 inches long.
1 amber crochet hook No. 4, same length.
(Note—These directions are based on 16 skeins to the box Germantown. If the “10 skeins to the box” wool is used, the number of skeins required will be proportionately less.)
The Cro-Knitted center of afghan is made first. Cast on 98 stitches and work as directed for lower part of “Dresden Baby Coat” (see page 25) until 40 patterns have been made. The work should be about 21 inches wide and 28 inches deep. Bind off.
BORDER: chain 108 and work in afghan stitch as directed for “Afghan Stitch Stripe” (see page 36) for 7 rows, widening by picking up an extra stitch at each end of every row. The first of these rows should be the exact width of the Cro-Knitted center. Final row: pick up loop, as usual, then draw wool through loop on hook.
For the afghan stitch side stripe, chain 7 and make stripe same length as center, narrowing one stitch (by picking up last two bars together) on the same side of each of the last seven rows to form the mitered corner. Make another stripe in same manner, taking care to keep them opposites. Sew up the mitered corners, then baste border to center. Use the wrong side of the fourth row of center as the right side of the work. Holding the right side of afghan stitch border toward you, make 1 short, double crochet stitch (1 s. d. c.) as follows through the first afghan stitch and the center: wool over and draw a loop through stitch, wool over and through all three loops on hook. Repeat in each stitch on all three sides of afghan, putting extra stitches at corners, to prevent capping. Holding the wrong side of work toward you, make a round of s. d. c. in same manner on the edge of afghan stitch border. Turn.
Work back around the three sides in double crochet stitches, putting the stitches between the s. d. c. stitches of preceding round. Put 3 d. c. in each corner. Fasten off.
Go back to other end and make puffs around the three sides, as follows: * 5 d. c. in the first stitch, drop loop and insert hook through the first d. c. made, draw loop through, ch. 1, skip 1 stitch of preceding round and repeat from *. After the ch. 1 draw loop, on hook, up a little to prevent work from drawing in at the top. Do not skip any stitches at the corners, but skip 2 stitches between puffs when working across the bottom of afghan. Fasten off.
Go back, as before, * 1 d. c. in the top of puff, 1 d. c. in the next chain and repeat from * on all three sides. Extra stitches in corners. Fasten off.
Final round: 1 s. c. in first stitch, * ch. 4—wool over and pick up a loop in first ch. made, wool over and through 2 loops on hook, repeat from—three times, wool over and through all 5 loops on hook, ch. 1, skip 2 stitches, 1 s. c. in next and repeat from *. Skip only one stitch on each side of corners, to prevent capping.
TURN OVER: ch. 122 and work 3 rows in afghan stitch. On the fourth row narrow by picking up second and third bars together, also the two bars just preceding the final bar together. Repeat these four rows, twice; then narrow on every third row three times. Narrow on every second row until there are 30 rows in all, then work off as final row of afghan border was done. Sew to top of afghan, then make the five border rounds, as before, beginning with the short, double crochet round.
Embroider as illustrated.
For detail of embroidery see page 26.