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Figure 82 Looped Scallop Edging (1916): vintage crochet pattern
A five-row edging on a mesh of double trebles: the last row throws chain-10 and chain-12 loops back on themselves and covers them with eighteen and twenty-two single crochet, forming deep rounded scallops. Originally published as "Figure 82. Edging" in The Priscilla Crochet Book: Edgings and Insertions, No. 2 (Edited by Belle Robinson) by The Priscilla Publishing Company.
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| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Skill level | Intermediate |
| Yarn weight | Lace (#0) |
| Yardage | the book gives no thread quantity for any design. (as printed; yardage not given) |
| Hook | 1.25 mm |
| Gauge | No gauge printed. Work a sample repeat and match the hook to the thread. |
| Finished size | Not printed — the piece is worked to the length required. |
| Time | about 2 hours |
Materials
- Size 30 crochet thread — approximate modern equivalent of the book's No. 30 crochet cotton
- 1.25 mm steel hook (US steel 9) — approximate for the book's No. 9 hook
- Fine tapestry or sewing needle for the ends
- Hook: Start with 1.25 mm (US steel 9) — approximate for the book's No. 9 hook; change size until the thread runs easily without splitting and the lace lies flat.
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
- treble crochet
- slip stitch
- stitch
- stitches
- skip
- space
- repeat
- row
- loop
Notes before you start
- Source: "Figure 82. Edging", The Priscilla Crochet Book: Edgings and Insertions, No. 2 (Edited by Belle Robinson), The Priscilla Publishing Company, Boston, 1916. Public domain in the USA.
- As printed — materials: Crochet cotton No. 30 — the book's Materials paragraph says “crochet cotton” means the hard-twisted cotton sold as Cordonnet, Cordonnet Special, Cordichet, Kord-net and similar; Hook No. 9. 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), “put hook through work, draw thread through work (making two loops on the hook); thread over again and through both loops” = modern US single crochet (sc) — the book itself notes this stitch “has been, especially in wool crochet, called ‘single crochet’”; “half treble” (ht), thread over, through work, “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” (dt), thread over twice and worked off by twos three times = modern US treble crochet (tr); “long treble” (lt) or “triple treble” (tt), thread over three times and crocheted off by twos = modern US double treble (dtr); “quadruple treble” (qt), thread over four times = modern US triple treble (trtr). Every stitch in these instructions 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, ht = hdc, t = dc, dt = tr, lt/tt = dtr, st(s) = st(s), sp = sp, p = picot, blk = block, “miss” = sk, “thread over (the hook)” = yo, “repeat” = rep, “needle” (where it is used for the crochet hook) = hook. Ordinal row names (“1st row”, “2d row”) are written Row 1, Row 2, and “1st round”/“2d round” as Rnd 1, Rnd 2. Section headings (Heading, Edge, Lower Edge, Filling) are the book's own where it prints them.
- Modernisation note: The book prints each design as one or two solid paragraphs; these have been split into one row, round 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 book's own numbering. Its Materials paragraph says that “where the words ‘crochet cotton’ are used in the text of this book, the cotton referred to is the hard-twisted cotton known by such names as Cordonnet, Cordonnet Special, Cordichet, Kord-net, etc.” “No. N crochet cotton” is given below 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. No yardage is printed anywhere in the book, so none is given here.
- Modernisation note: Hook sizes are the book's own steel numbering. The 1916 steel numbering is not identical to the modern one, so every metric size below is approximate and should be adjusted to the thread.
- Modernisation note: No gauge and no finished measurements are printed for this design; work a sample repeat and adjust the hook until the lace lies flat at the width you want.
- Modernisation note: Metric conversions added.
Row progress: 0 of 6 done (0%)
Edging
0 of 6 done- Make a chain the required length.Mark row complete
- Row 1: One tr in the 12th st from hook, (ch 3, sk 3, tr in the next st) rep to the end of the ch, turn.Mark row complete
- Row 2: Ch 7, tr in the 2nd tr, (ch 3, tr in the next tr) rep to the end of the row, turn.Mark row complete
- Row 3: Ch 4, 5 tr over the ch-3, * ch 1, sk 1 sp, 6 tr over the next 3 ch; rep from * to the end of the row, turn.Mark row complete
- Row 4: Ch 10, sl st in the ch st between the tr; rep from the beginning of the row to the end of the edging, turn.Mark row complete
- Row 5: * Make 18 sc over the 1st ch-10, 18 sc over the 2nd ch-10, 9 sc over the 3rd ch-10 (half across), ch 10, sl st back in the middle of the 2nd 18 sc, ch 10, sl st back in the middle of the 1st 18 sc, make 18 sc over the 10 ch, 9 sc over the next ch-10 (half across), ch 12, sl st back in the middle of the 18 sc, 22 sc over the 12 ch, 9 sc over the next ch, 9 sc over the next ch; rep from * to the end of the row.Mark row complete
Working on:
Make a chain the required length.
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Frequently asked questions
Where is the Figure 82. Edging pattern from?
It was published as "Figure 82. Edging" in The Priscilla Crochet Book: Edgings and Insertions, No. 2 (Edited by Belle Robinson) by The Priscilla Publishing Company, Boston 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 Figure 82. Edging?
Size 30 crochet thread. Not printed — the book gives no thread quantity for any design.
What hook should I use?
Start with 1.25 mm (US steel 9) — approximate for the book's No. 9 hook; change size until the thread runs easily without splitting and the lace lies flat. Gauge: No gauge printed. Work a sample repeat and match the hook to the thread.
