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No. C108 Baby's Crocheted Hood (1916): vintage crochet pattern
A baby's hood whose crown is worked in rounds of star stitch from a chain ring, increased for nine rounds and then worked plain, with the sides and neck carried on in ribbed single crochet and a cross stitch border added on the front and neck bands.
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| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Skill level | Advanced |
| Yarn weight | Lace (#0) |
| Yardage | Not printed. The book prints a yardage for only one design in the whole volume, and not for this one. (as printed; yardage not given) |
| Hook | 5 mm |
| Gauge | No gauge printed. |
| Finished size | Not printed; the crown is worked until it is 5 inches (13 cm) across and the sides 4 1/2 inches (11 cm) deep. |
| Time | about 4 hours |
Materials
- Size 5 pearl (perle) cotton, white — approximate; the original was 2 balls of white Artamo Crochet Perle No. 5
- Six-strand cotton embroidery floss for the cross stitch — the original was Artamo Four-Ply
- Crochet hook (original: No. 1 bone hook)
- Tapestry needle
- Hook: Start with 5 mm (US H-8) — approximate and ours, since the old bone-hook numbers match no modern scale; change size until the crown lies flat
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Abbreviations (US terms)
- chain
- slip stitch
- single crochet
- stitch
- stitches
- round
- row
- repeat
- skip
- loop
- back loop only
- increase
- decrease
- right side
- wrong side
Notes before you start
- Source: "Baby's Crocheted Hood No. C108" (C108), The Artamo Crochet Book No. 1, Bentley-Franklin Company, New York, 1916. Public domain in the USA.
- As printed — materials: 2 Balls of White “ARTAMO” Crochet Perle No. 5.; “ARTAMO” Four-Ply for Cross Stitch.; 1 Bone Crochet Hook No. 1.. Gauge: Not given.
- Modernisation note: Stitches are converted by this book's own key (“The Rudimentary Stitches of Crochet”, book pages 2-3), not by name. The key defines: chain (ch); “single crochet (s. c.)”, sometimes called tight stitch or half stitch — draw up a loop and draw another loop through both loops on the needle, which is the modern US single crochet; “double crochet (d. c.)”, frequently called a plain — thread over, draw up a loop (3 loops on the needle), draw through 2, then draw through the 2 remaining, which is the modern US double crochet; “short double crochet” — thread over, draw up a loop, draw the thread through all 3 loops at once, which is the modern US half double crochet; “treble crochet (t or tr)” — thread over twice, draw up a loop (4 loops), then cast off 2 at a time three times, which is the modern US treble; “long treble crochet”, also called double treble in the directions — thread over three times and cast off 2 at a time until all loops are worked off, which is the modern US double treble; slip stitch, “sometimes called the quarter-stitch”. So throughout this transcription the book's s.c. = sc, d.c. = dc, short d.c. = hdc, t/tr = tr and long treble/double treble = dtr. This book's heights already match modern US usage, so no shift of names was needed.
- Modernisation note: The book's wording is written in modern US form: “needle” = hook; “thread over (the needle)” = yo; “skip” = sk; “pick up a loop” = draw up a loop; “narrow” = decrease; “widen” = increase; “picked up on the double thread” = worked under both loops; “picked up on the back thread” = worked in the back loop only; “join in a ring” = sl st to join into a ring. Ordinal row and round names (“1st row”, “2nd round”) are written Row 1, Rnd 2 and so on.
- Modernisation note: The book's general note on the asterisk is followed (book page 3): the first asterisk is passed without notice, and a second asterisk sends the worker back to the first and repeats from that point.
- Modernisation note: Long printed paragraphs are split into one row, round or step per line; stitch order and counts are unchanged. Section headings added for navigation.
- Modernisation note: “Artamo” was a brand of cotton sold by the publisher and described on the book's back cover: Cordonnet, a six-cord crochet cable cord for crochet and lace making, in sizes 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 and 100; Crochet Perle, in white and fast colours, in sizes 3 and 5; and Four-Ply, four fine strands loosely twisted together, for embroidery. The modern equivalents given here are approximations only: Artamo Cordonnet reads as modern six-cord mercerized cotton crochet thread of the same number, Artamo Crochet Perle as modern pearl (perle) cotton of the same number, and Artamo Four-Ply as modern six-strand cotton embroidery floss. Sizes 15 and 25 are no longer commonly made; the nearest modern sizes are noted where they occur.
- Modernisation note: Hooks are printed only as “Steel Crochet Hook No. …” or “Bone Crochet Hook No. …” with no diameters, so no exact metric size can be read from the book. The metric sizes given are approximate starting points read across to the modern US steel-hook scale, in which a higher number is finer. Check: the old bone-hook numbers were never standardised and do not line up with any modern scale, so the millimetre size suggested for a bone hook is ours; work a swatch and change size to match the photograph.
- Modernisation note: No gauge is printed for this design. Work a swatch and change hook size until the work lies flat and matches the photograph.
- Modernisation note: Star stitch is not in the book's key; it is written out in full inside Rnd 1 and Rnd 2 exactly as the book gives it, including the book's own name for the little hole beneath the chain, “the eye of the star”.
- Modernisation note: Rounds 4 to 9 and 10 to 13 are printed as “continue in this way … until 9 rounds have been made” and “then make 4 rounds more”; those instructions are written as round ranges here, with nothing changed.
- Modernisation note: Check: no cross stitch chart is printed for the border, so the design on the bands has to be read from the photograph.
- Modernisation note: Check: no colour is printed beyond the thread named in the materials.
- Modernisation note: Metric conversions added where a measurement is printed; the printed inches are unchanged.
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Row progress: 0 of 6 done (0%)
Crown in star stitch
0 of 6 done- Ch 4 and join in a ring. In the ring make 10 stars of star stitch, as follows.Mark row complete
- Rnd 1: Ch 3, draw up a loop in each of the second and third chain from the hook and another loop in the ring. Draw the thread through all and ch 1. * Draw up a loop in the little hole beneath the chain just made (called the eye of the star), a loop in the twist behind the last loop of the preceding star, and a loop in the ring — again there will be 4 loops on the hook. Draw through all and ch 1. Rep from * until 10 stars in all have been made, and when working the chain after the final star join to the top of the chain with which the first star was started.Mark row complete
- Rnd 2: Begin as Rnd 1 was begun, picking up the fourth loop for the first star in the back loop of the first st along the top of the preceding rnd — this 4-loop star is an increased star. Stars that are not increased stars have 5 loops and are made as follows: * draw up the first 2 loops on the star last made, as instructed for the preceding rnd; draw up the next loop in the same st where the final loop of the preceding star was picked up, and the final loop in the eye of the star below in the preceding rnd. Draw through all and ch 1. Again make a 4-loop star, and rep from * throughout the rnd, joining at the end. There will be 20 stars in the rnd.Mark row complete
- Rnd 3: Work the first 2 stars like those of Rnd 2. For the third star draw up the first 2 loops as usual, draw up the next loop in the back of the next st along the top of the preceding rnd (the first st of the second star of that rnd), then a loop in the eye of the same star. Draw through and ch 1. Rep from the beginning of the rnd to the end, there joining as usual.Mark row complete
- Rnds 4-9: Continue in this way, always making 1 extra 5-loop star between the increasings, until 9 rnds have been made, when the work should be 5 inches (13 cm) in diameter. For a larger sized hood the increasings may be continued as necessary for the size desired.Mark row complete
- Rnds 10-13: Make 4 rnds more, but without increasing.Mark row complete
Working on:
Ch 4 and join in a ring. In the ring make 10 stars of star stitch, as follows.
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- Sides and back
- Front and neck bands
- Finishing
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Frequently asked questions
Where is the Baby's Crocheted Hood No. C108 pattern from?
It was published as "Baby's Crocheted Hood No. C108" in The Artamo Crochet Book No. 1 by Bentley-Franklin Company, New York in 1916. The publication is in the public domain in the United States; this version is transcribed and modernised by crochetpatterns.io.
What yarn or thread do I need for the Baby's Crocheted Hood No. C108?
Size 5 pearl cotton. Not printed. The book prints a yardage for only one design in the whole volume, and not for this one.
What hook should I use?
Start with 5 mm (US H-8) — approximate and ours, since the old bone-hook numbers match no modern scale; change size until the crown lies flat Gauge: No gauge printed.
