Afghan With Persian Lamb Stripes
Materials Required:
¾ box Bear Brand Germantown, 8-fold.
5 skeins, Bear Brand Persian Lamb Wool.
1 amber crochet hook, No. 9.
Using the Germantown, chain 100 and work in double star stitch, as follows: skip chain next to hook and take up a loop through each of the next 5 chains, (6 loops on hook). Have the first 3 loops quite short, the other 3 loops long. Wool over hook and through all 6 loops, ch. 1 snugly.
Second star: take up a loop through eye of first star (the little hole formed by the stitch just made), another through the back twist of last loop of first star, making 3 loops on hook. These are held quite short; 3 more loops, pulled long, are taken up, the first in the same stitch with last loop of first star and 1 loop each in the next 2 chs. There are again 6 loops upon the hook. Finish as with first star. Repeat second star until the length of chs. has been used up, then fasten off. The row should contain 48 stars and should measure thirty inches in length.
Second row: fasten wool at the very beginning of top of first row, ch. 3, take up a loop each in second and third chs. from hook, a fourth loop in back of first loop in star below, a loop in eye of star below and a sixth loop in back of first loop of second star below. Finish as usual. Second star, take up second and third loops as in stars on the first row and fourth, fifth and sixth loops as in star just made, finishing as usual. Work across as with second star and again finish off.
The last loop of final star is taken in back loop of final star of first row. Be sure there are as many stars as in first row.
Repeat the second row twice or until the stripe measures three and one-half inches in depth. Draw Persian Lamb through the very beginning of last row and make 1 single crochet stitch there. Continue making 1 s. c. in each stitch to end of row, chain 1 and turn. Work 4 more rows in Persian Lamb, putting 1 s. c. in each stitch of preceding row and taking up both threads of stitch. The Persian Lamb stripe should be two inches deep.
Change to Germantown and make stripe, as before. Continue alternating the Persian Lamb and Germantown stripes until there are 5 Germantown stripes, in all.
Border: using the Persian Lamb, work all around the afghan in single crochet, widening at corners by putting 3 s. c. in each corner on first round; putting 2 s. c. in each corner on second round. Alternate first and second rounds for the depth desired.