Baby's Three-Piece Crocheted Set: vintage crochet pattern

Materials

• Super fine (CYC #1) baby yarn — the original was Baby Zephyr Pompadour, a fine baby yarn: 3 balls of 1 oz (28 g) pink and 1 ball of 1 oz (28 g) blue for sacque, cap and booties
• Crochet hook (original: bone crochet hook size 3; old bone-hook size numbers have no reliable metric equivalent)
• Tapestry needle
• Hook: No gauge is printed. Start with 3.25 mm (US D-3) and change size so the sacque's chain of 62 measures about 9½ in (24 cm), loosely

Abbreviations (US terms)

ch

chain

sc

single crochet

dc

double crochet

sl st

slip stitch

sk

skip

st

stitch

sts

stitches

rep

repeat

rnd

round

BLO

back loop only

sh

shell

beg

beginning

inc

increase

dec

decrease

tog

together

lp

loop

Notes before you start

• Source: "Baby's Three-Piece Crocheted Set" (No. 802), Juvenile Styles: Original Designs for Infants and Juveniles, Volume 4, Juvenile Styles Publishing Company (Mary Hoyer, editor and designer). Public domain in the USA.
• As printed — materials: 1 Bone Crochet hook, size 3.; Material—Baby Zephyr Pompadour. 3 one ounce balls pink. 1 one ounce ball, blue. For Sacque, Cap and Booties.. Gauge: Not given.
• Modernisation note: Original is written in US crochet terms; kept as US terms (sc = single crochet, dc = double crochet).
• Modernisation note: Spaced abbreviations (s c, d c, Y O) written as sc, dc, yo; "wrap" written as yo; "thru" written as "through"; "needle" (used for the crochet hook) written as "hook"; "tape thru" (a cord through the beading) written as "lace through"; "picking up back loop/thread/st" written as "in back loop only".
• Modernisation note: "Cut yarn" / "break thread" written as "fasten off"; "attach yarn" / "fasten thread" written as "join yarn".
• Modernisation note: Long printed paragraphs split into one row, round or step per line; stitch order unchanged.
• Modernisation note: Row and round numbers added where the original prints "NEXT ROW", "NEXT 5 ROUNDS" or "Repeat last 2 rows"; the numbering follows the printed sequence and does not change it.
• Modernisation note: "Picking up both threads" written as "through both loops"; "ch 3 loops" written as "ch-3 loops".
• Modernisation note: The sacque sleeve cuff, sleeve scallops and cord are printed on a later page ("Continued on page 29"); they are kept in working order. The printed cuff instruction "Work 2 rows of s c with pink (decreasing every 5th st on first row)" and "Work 2 rows of blue" are joined in one step.
• Modernisation note: Sacque Row 1: printed "*skip 1 s c" while working into the foundation chain; written as "sk 1 ch".
• Modernisation note: Sacque body Row 1: printed "repeat between **across back" — the row has only one asterisk; written as "rep between * across back".
• Modernisation note: Check: the sacque's chain of 62 does not divide exactly into the printed 5-st first group, 6-ch repeats and closing "3 s c" (10 points). Left as printed; keep 10 points and adjust the last repeat.
• Modernisation note: Check: "work 2 s c in each st, until there are 24 sts around" (cap) cannot reach exactly 24 from 7 sc by doubling every stitch. Left as printed; increase evenly to 24.
• Modernisation note: Check: sacque body Row 2 and cap Rnd 1 begin with ch 4 but end in the "ch 3" or "3rd ch" at the beginning of the row. Left as printed.
• Modernisation note: Check: the cap's X-pattern section changes from joined rounds (Rnds 1–4) to turned rows (Rows 5–13) to leave the back of the neck open; the printed stitch counts for Row 5 (13 shells, 12 X patterns) are the booklet's. Left as printed.
• Modernisation note: Check: the sacque yoke describes its shoulders and fronts only briefly ("Work to correspond to other front"); the photo shows a chevron-striped yoke with the shell-and-X body below. Left as printed.
• Modernisation note: Metric conversions added.