This free pattern originally published in the Woolco Knitting & Crocheting Manual, in 1916.
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MATERIAL-5 skeins of white and 4 skeins of blue Woolco Germantown Zephyr. No. 4 Woolco hook.
Commence with a chain of 140 stitches, using white yarn.
On this chain work in Newport stitch, as follows:
4 rows of white, * 1 row of blue, 1 row of white, 6 rows of blue, 1 row of white, 1 row of blue, 8 rows of white.
Repeat from *.
Make 5 blue and 7 white stripes. Finish with a shell (5 double crochet to the shell) of white, edged with blue, and a picot of blue.
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