  CHAPTER XVI MARY MARIE’S TURBAN P “PLEASE let us hear the new directions, Yarn Baby,” Fairly Flew said. “Please.” And then the Yarn Baby began: Doll’s Crocheted Turban (Hat)(See the picture opposite page 40—color plate) Material: Old rose or blue four-fold Germantown zephyr. Gray Germantown zephyr for trimming. Bone crochet hook No. 5. Directions: To Make the Top of the Crown of the Hat1. With rose or blue yarn make 5 chain stitches. 2. Join the chain in a ring with slip stitch. 3. Make 1 chain stitch. Yarn Baby began. photograph Doll’s Crocheted Turban (Hat) “Use me.” 4. Put 2 single crochet stitches in each chain stitch in the ring (10 single crochet stitches in all). Tie a piece of sewing cotton in the last stitch to mark end of row. (See picture A, page 101.) Note.—In making the turban, put the crochet hook through back loop only of the stitches already made. (See picture A, page 101.) 5. Second row: Put 2 single crochets in each stitch. 6. Third row: Put 1 single crochet in each of the first 2 stitches. Put 2 single crochets in third stitch. Note.—When 2 or more stitches are put into 1 stitch in this way, it makes the work fuller or larger. This is called “increasing.” Germantown zephyr. Put 1 single crochet in each of the next 2 stitches. Put 2 single photo A 7. Fourth row: Same as third row. To increase 8. Fifth row: Increase, by putting 2 single crochets in every fifth stitch, and continue in this way until there are 8 full rows. photo B To Make the Side of Crown, or the Band1. Make 58 chain stitches. Join in a ring with slip stitch. 2. Make 1 single crochet in each stitch of the chain. 3. Second row: Put 1 single crochet in each single crochet, taking up back loop only. Continue doing this until there are 6 full rows. The turned-up band of gray is made in the same way as the band just finished. Join in a ring. To Put Turban Together1. Hold the right side of the crown toward you. Hold the top edge of the rose To make rosette. 2. Place gray band inside of the rose or blue band, with the right side against the inside (or wrong side) of the rose or blue band. Thread a zephyr needle or a darning needle with gray yarn, and sew the edges neatly together. (Picture B on page 101 shows the two bands spread open after they have been sewed together.) 3. Turn the gray band up on the outside of turban and sew a rosette on the left side of the crown and on the turned-up band. To Make RosetteLay the ends of the two colors of zephyr together side by side. With a large crochet hook (about No. 8) make 45 chain stitches. Break off yarns and fasten ends. Form the chain into 6 flat loops and sew on left side of turban, using gray yarn in a zephyr or darning needle. As soon as it was finished, Mary Frances put the turban on Mary Marie. Then she put the scarf which matched it around the dolly’s neck. “Doesn’t she look sweet!” she exclaimed. “I’ll let you all kiss her.” “Oh, excuse—!” began Crow Shay, but he never finished the sentence, for there came a voice at the door. It was Katie’s voice. “Doesn’t she look sweet!” “I should love to.” “Miss Mary Frances! You haven’t been out at all to-day!” she said. “Your mother wouldn’t like that.” Mary Frances ran to the door. “Why, Katie, that’s so! I must go out. I’ll get ready right away. I’ve been doing some crocheting.” “That’s fine,” Katie said. “I wish I knew how to crochet.” “Maybe I can teach you some time after I learn more myself,” said Mary Frances. “I should love to learn.” Katie looked pleased. “Well, I must be about my work now,” she added, and went downstairs again. When Mary Frances turned back to the sewing table nothing was to be seen but the empty rocking-chair and the knitting bag. “Oh, dear,” she thought, “where can everybody be?” She lifted the bag. Underneath was Mary Marie just as she had dressed her. She put her hand into the bag and found Wooley Ball and the Yarn Baby, but could not find Crow Shay. “What is the little rascal hiding for?” she wondered. Out popped Crow Shay. “So scared was I.” “Look in the chest of yarns,” said Wooley Ball. Mary Frances opened the lid. Out popped Crow Shay’s little round head. “So scared was I, I thought I’d die; So ran and hid— That’s why! That’s why!” he sang. “And Fairly Flew,” asked Mary Frances; “where is she?” “She’s gone! She’s gone! Been gone before; But she’ll come back Some more, some more,” promised Crow Shay, and the little girl went happily out to play. “Where is she?” |
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