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Baby's Cap, Daisy Design, in Roll Stitch and Clover Leaves (1912): vintage crochet pattern
A lacy baby's cap worked from a roll-stitch crown in rounds of chain loops, clover leaves and roll stitches, with rings of separately made roll-stitch daisies sewn on, and front rows of daisies and clover leaves shaping the face and back.
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| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Skill level | Advanced |
| Yarn weight | Lace (#0) |
| Yardage | the book gives no quantity. (as printed; yardage not given) |
| Hook | 1.5 mm |
| Gauge | No gauge or measurement printed. The book says to keep the work tight enough to shape the cap. |
| Finished size | Not printed. The crown is 12 rounds; the front has rows of 17 daisies with 8 clover leaves left off for the back, and a final row of 17 daisies for the front and 13 for the back. |
| Time | about 9 hours |
Materials
- Crochet silk or mercerized cotton crochet thread — not printed; approximate, from the book's other roll-stitch caps
- Steel crochet hook (not printed)
- Sewing needle for sewing the daisies
- Hook: Start with 1.5 mm (US steel 7) — approximate; no hook or measurement is printed, so keep the work tight enough to shape the cap, as printed
Yarn Kit & Substitution Options
This pattern calls for 350 yards of weight #0 yarn. Select a suggested yarn to see required skeins and estimated cost:
Caron Simply Soft · 100% Acrylic
315 yds per skein · High-yield yardage, silky no-scratch texture
2 skeins required
approx. $$10.98 total
Abbreviations (US terms)
- chain
- single crochet
- stitch
- stitches
- round
- row
- skip
- repeat
- loop
- yarn over
Notes before you start
- Source: "Baby's Cap. Daisy Design", Priscilla Wool Crochet Book (ed. Lola Burks Hettich), The Priscilla Publishing Company, Boston, 1912. Public domain in the USA.
- As printed — materials: Not given. Gauge: Not given.
- Modernisation note: Stitches converted by the book's own “Explanation of Stitches”, not by name: chain stitch (ch st, “make a series of loops, drawing each loop through the preceding one”) = ch; slip stitch (sl st, “insert the hook into the stitch, draw the wool through that stitch and through the wool on hook at the same time”) = sl st; single crochet (s c, “insert the hook, draw wool through, pass wool around hook (wool over), and draw it through both loops on the hook”) = sc; double crochet (d c, wool around the hook, insert, draw through, then through 2 loops twice) = dc; half double crochet (h d c, wool around the hook, insert, draw through, then “through all 3 loops at once”) = hdc; treble crochet (t c or tr c, wool around the hook twice, insert, draw through, then through 2 loops three times) = tr. For these stitches the 1912 American names already match modern US usage, so no stitch changes height. The book's long crochet (l c: wool around the hook, insert, draw through, then through 1 loop, then through 2 loops twice) is the modern extended double crochet; where used it is written “long crochet” with that definition.
- Modernisation note: The book's abbreviations are written in modern US form: ch st = ch, s c = sc, d c = dc, h d c = hdc, t c / tr c = tr, st(s) = st(s), “wool over” / “thread over” / “pass the wool around the hook” = yo; “miss” = sk; loop = lp; “repeat” = rep; “beginning” = beg. “Widen” is written as increase and “narrow” as decrease, as defined in each design. Ordinal row names (“1st row”, “2d row”) are written Row 1, Row 2; where the book calls a circuit of a round piece a “row” the book's word is kept. “Plain” (a row or round with no increases or decreases) is kept as printed.
- Modernisation note: Long printed paragraphs are split into one row, round or step per line; stitch order and counts unchanged. Section headings added for navigation.
- Modernisation note: Hooks are printed as bone hooks described only as fine, medium-sized or coarse, or by an unstated numbering system, with no diameters, so no exact metric size can be read from the book. The suggested modern hook is an approximate starting point chosen for the yarn weight and tied to any printed measurement.
- Modernisation note: No stitch gauge is printed for this design; work a swatch and match any printed measurement (given in the modern gauge line) before starting.
- Modernisation note: The book's “rolls” (thread thrown over the needle 20 or 12 times and drawn off all at once) are the modern bullion or roll stitch; there is no abbreviation in the list, so they are written “roll st” / “rolls”. The daisy directions, printed at the end, are placed first.
- Modernisation note: “Needle” (thread over needle) is written “hook”. The book's “l c” in Round 4 (“fasten … with l c, ch 3, fasten in top of l c”) is read as 1 sc; Check: it could be the book's long crochet (extended dc), but a leaf of chain loops fastened into it reads as a single stitch.
- Modernisation note: No materials, thread or size are printed for this cap; the modern thread is a suggestion only.
- Modernisation note: Check: “7 st to each chain” (Row 14) and “6 st to each ch” (Row 16) are read as the length of the ch between fastenings.
- Modernisation note: Check: Rows 13–21 are worked across the front only (the back is left off), but Row 21 adds 13 daisies for the back; how they are placed is not printed.
- Modernisation note: Round labels are written “Round” as printed (“1st round”); the front uses the book's “row”.
Row progress: 0 of 4 done (0%)
Roll Stitch and Daisies
0 of 4 done- Roll stitch (the book's “rolls”): throw the thread over the hook the number of times directed (20 times for the crown), insert the hook where directed, and draw off all at once.Mark row complete
- To make daisies: Ch 6, fasten to form a ring. Ch 2. Make 12 rolls of 12 threads each, fasten the 12th roll to the 1st, cut the thread and fasten.Mark row complete
- Sew the daisies together, beginning where the thread hangs loose so that the loose end may be hidden, and fasten 2 rolls in one to 2 in the other. Have the thread long enough to sew together 1 round of daisies.Mark row complete
- In sewing daisies to the cap, do not break the thread, but fasten in the ch of the last row.Mark row complete
Working on:
Roll stitch (the book's “rolls”): throw the thread over the hook the number of times directed (20 times for the crown), insert the hook where directed, and draw off all at once.
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- Front
- Finishing
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Frequently asked questions
Where is the Baby's Cap. Daisy Design pattern from?
It was published as "Baby's Cap. Daisy Design" in Priscilla Wool Crochet Book (ed. Lola Burks Hettich) by The Priscilla Publishing Company, Boston in 1912. 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 Cap. Daisy Design?
Not printed — crochet silk or fine mercerized crochet cotton (approximate). Not printed — the book gives no quantity.
What hook should I use?
Start with 1.5 mm (US steel 7) — approximate; no hook or measurement is printed, so keep the work tight enough to shape the cap, as printed Gauge: No gauge or measurement printed. The book says to keep the work tight enough to shape the cap.
