Rose Cap
Materials Required:
1 skein, Bear Brand Pompadour Wool.
1 skein, Bear Brand Saxony, 3-fold.
1 bone crochet hook, No. 0.
1 amber knitting pin No. 13, which is about the thickness of an ordinary lead pencil.
Using the Pompadour and crochet hook, chain 3 and join in a ring. Ch. 3, * wool over and pick up a loop in the ring, wool over and through all 3 loops on hook, thus forming 1 short double crochet stitch (1 s. d. c.), ch. 1 and repeat from * 4 times; join to second ch. of the ch. 3 at beginning of round, with a slip stitch thus forming six spaces.
Third round: 1 s. c., 3 d. c., 1 s. c. all in the first space, repeat in each space of round, ch. 2, turn work and catch around first spoke of second round with a slip stitch.
Fourth round: ch. 4, catch around next spoke and repeat all around; join and turn.
Fifth round: 1 s. c., 6 d. c., 1 s. c. in first space and repeat all around.
Sixth round: change to the Saxony, but do not fasten off Pompadour wool. * 1 d. c. on the left side of s. c. of preceding round, 1 s. d. c. in each of the next six stitches drawing them up so that the top of the work is evenly high, 1 d. c. on the right side of next s. c. and repeat from * all around. 48 stitches in round. Join.
Seventh round: draw Pompadour wool through from the back and pick up a loop in the front thread of first stitch, then draw this same loop through the loop on hook, thus forming one slip stitch. Make 1 slip stitch in front thread of each stitch of previous round. Drop Pompadour.
Eighth round: with Saxony chain 2, to count as 1 s. d. c.; then make 1 s. d. c. in the back thread of each stitch of preceding round, excepting that in the center stitch of each shell there are to be 2 s. d. c. 56 s. d. c. in round. Join. Repeat the seventh round.
Tenth round: * 1 s. d. c. in back thread of each of the first three stitches, 2 s. d. c. in next and repeat from * all around. Join.
Continue in this way alternating the Pompadour and Saxony rounds, on each of the Saxony rounds having two more stitches between the increasings until there are nine stitches between. Then make one Saxony round without any increasing. Repeat Pompadour round. On the next Saxony row the front of cap is commenced. Make 1 s. d. c. in each of the first 88 stitches and fasten off Saxony; the remaining stitches are left for the neck portion. Repeat the Pompadour row once more then commence the lattice pattern.
First pattern row: draw up a long loop of Pompadour and slip it on the knitting pin, draw working thread in place. The pin is held under right arm firmly. Hold wrong side of work toward you and with crochet hook * pull a long loop of Pompadour through the double threads of second stitch, slip it on pin and draw working thread in place. Repeat from * in each stitch of row. 88 loops on pin. Slip loops from pin.
Second row: turn, * draw the second loop through the first loop and in it make 1 s. c., then make 1 s. c. in first loop, thus forming the lattice. Repeat from * all along the row. Fasten off Pompadour.
Third row: go back to other end, make a loop of Saxony on hook, then make 88 s. d. c. along the row and fasten off. Take up both threads of the previous row.
Fourth row: go back, as before and make 1 slip stitch in the front thread of each stitch of third row. Use Pompadour.
Repeat these four rows, three times; on the last repetition of the third row make 36 s. d. c., skip one stitch, 4 s. d. c., skip 1, 4 s. d. c., skip 1, 4 s. d. c., skip 1, 36 s. d. c., thus drawing in cap a little around the face. Do not fasten off but turn and work across neck portion of cap. Put two more stitches in corner, 2 stitches in end of lattice row and 1 stitch in each of the other rows across front, across stitches left from crown * make 1 stitch through the back threads of two stitches taken together and repeat from * all across crown; then make second front like first and fasten off. Make fourth row of slip stitches, working across neck also.
Around entire cap, using the Pompadour wool, make a scallop as follows: 1 s. c. in first stitch, chain 3, 3 d. c. in same stitch, skip 3 stitches and repeat all around. At the corners skip 2 stitches only to prevent capping.
Rose ornament: make five rounds as directed for beginning of cap.
Sixth round: ch. 2, turn and catch around first spoke, ch. 6 and catch around next spoke. Repeat all around; join and turn.
Seventh round: 1 s. c., 8 d. c., 1 s. c. in first space and repeat all around. Fasten off. Make another ornament in same manner. Trim with three rounds of narrow ribbon loops, one loop back of each rose petal. Place tiny loop in center of each rose and center of crown.
Line with silk and use ribbon ties.