Figure 93 Square Medallion Doily (1915): vintage crochet pattern

Materials

• Size 70 or size 100 crochet thread — the book says coarser threads are equally effective
• A steel hook to suit the thread: about 0.75 mm (US steel 14) for size 100, larger for coarser threads
• Fine tapestry or sewing needle for the ends
• Hook: Choose the hook to suit the thread, as the book directs: about 0.75 mm (US steel 14) with size 100 thread, larger with coarser threads.

Abbreviations (US terms)

ch

chain

sl st

slip stitch

dc

double crochet

st

stitch

sts

stitches

sk

skip

rep

repeat

rnd

round

sp

space

Notes before you start

• Source: "Figure 93. Doily", The Priscilla Crochet Book: Centerpieces and Doilies (edited by Belle Robinson), The Priscilla Publishing Company, Boston, 1915. Public domain in the USA.
• As printed — materials: Crochet cotton Nos. 70 and 100, and coarser threads; A crochet needle to suit the size of cotton. Gauge: Not given.
• Modernisation note: Stitches converted by the book's own “Explanation of Stitches” (printed page 3), not by name. This book uses the older British-style naming, so its stitch names do NOT match modern US names: chain (ch) = ch; slip stitch (sl) = sl st; “double” (d), hook through work, draw thread through, “thread over again and through both loops” = modern US single crochet (sc) — the book adds that this stitch “has been, especially in wool crochet, called ‘single crochet’”; “half treble” (h t), thread over, through work, then “thread over and through all three sts at once” = modern US half double crochet (hdc); “treble” (t), thread over, through work, “thread over and through two loops, thread over and again through two loops” = modern US double crochet (dc); “double treble” (d t), thread over twice and worked off by twos three times = modern US treble crochet (tr); “long treble” (l t) or “triple treble” (t t), thread over three times, worked off by twos = modern US double treble (dtr); “quadruple treble” (q t), thread over four times = modern US triple treble. Every stitch below has been rewritten in the modern US name and abbreviation on that basis.
• Modernisation note: The book's abbreviations are written in modern US form: d = sc, h t = hdc, t = dc, d t = tr, l t = dtr, st(s) = st(s), sp = sp, “miss” = sk, “thread over (the needle)” = yo, “repeat” = rep, “needle” (for the crochet hook) = hook. Ordinal row and round names (“1st round”, “2d round”) are written Rnd 1, Rnd 2 and Row 1, Row 2. Section headings (Border, Edge, Heading) are the book's own where it prints them. The book's British spelling “centrepiece” is kept inside quoted names.
• Modernisation note: The book prints each design as one or two solid paragraphs; these have been split into one round, row or step per line. Stitch order and counts are unchanged. Where the book's own repeat markers (*, **) span several lines they are kept as printed.
• Modernisation note: Thread sizes are the 1915 numbering. “No. N crochet cotton” is given as modern size N crochet thread, which is an approximation: modern size numbering runs the same way (higher number = finer thread) but the exact diameters are not identical. The book states that where it says “crochet cotton” it means the hard-twisted cotton sold as Cordonnet, Cordonnet Special, Cordichet, Kord-net and similar. No yardage is printed for any design, so none is given here.
• Modernisation note: Metric conversions added.
• Modernisation note: The book recommends this combination of square medallions for a variety of uses, since it can be made in any length or width — yokes, all-over laces, centrepieces, doilies, insertion or edging.
• Modernisation note: The book points to Fig. 94 as a photographed detail of the joining; it carries no extra directions.