This free pattern originally published in the Woolco Knitting & Crocheting Manual, in 1916.
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MATERIAL-6 skeins Woolco Germantown Zephyr. No. 4 Woolco hook.
Chain 62. Work 3 rows double crochet, turn, chain 2.
4TH ROW-1 double crochet, 1 chain, skip 1, *1 double crochet in each of next 2 stitches, 1 chain, skip 1*.
5TH ROW-Single crochet taking both loops. Use single crochet from now on.
6TH ROW-14 stitches, turn, chain 1.
7TH ROW-14 stitches.
8TH AND 9TH ROWS-28 stitches.
10TH AND 11TH ROWS-42 stitches.
12TH Row-60 stitches. Work 6 inches even (not counting the extra rows). Then decrease 1 stitch at beginning of every row, until there are 40 stitches.
1 row *3 stitches taking back loop, 3 taking front loop, *repeat once, 3 taking back loop, 10 taking both loops. *3 taking back loop, 3 taking front loop, * repeat once, 3 taking back loop.
1 row *3 stitches taking front loop, 3 taking back loop,* repeat once, 3 taking front loop, 10 taking both loops, *3 taking front loops, 3 taking back loop, * repeat once, 3 taking front loop.
Repeat these 2 rows until there are 20 rows.
21ST ROW-25 stitches taking both loops; turn, chain 1.
22D ROW-10 stitches taking both loops.
On these 10 stitches work 8 rows, then make a stitch down the side in each row and in the 15 stitches that were left. Turn; work back. There will be 54 stitches. Work 9 rows. Fasten off.
GUSSET-Chain 16. Make 14 rows of single crochet. Sew up seams and sew gusset into the seam above the pattern stitches.
Run elastic or ribbon through holes made at top.
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