Monday, June 2, 2008

From The 1860 Ladies' Companion, a antique crochet pattern for a chair cover

Click on picture to go to full page at google books. I think this would make a georgous baby blanket!The Ladies' Companion: "DIAMOND PATTERN ANTI MACASSA R MATERIALS 1 oz White Wool 4 thread 2 oz Cherry Crimson or Green Bone hook There are in the anti macassar 47 coloured and 36 white diamonds which are all made exactly alike For a smaller size 36 coloured and 25 white will suffice Work in ribbed crochet making the entire outside and the white coming between them it is thus that so few white com paratively are needed for between two lines of coloured diamonds of seven each set point to point only six white can be put When they are sewed together do a line of loops all round thus 3 ch miss a small space slip stitch Be sure to have a loop at every point without missing nny Wind wool round a card of 2 inches and knot in a fringe all round of 4 strands in every loop AlGUILLETTE 2 ch miss 1 3 sc in the next 1 ch sc in each of the 3 stitches only you work 3 stitches in the centre one Work backwa"
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