1. With the last stitch made on the needle, put hook through one of the brass rings which will be used as a handle. Very nearly fill the ring with single crochet. Fold the ring down inside the bag, and make single crochet through the ring and top of bag, putting 1 single crochet in each stitch.
This will entirely cover the ring, and attach it to the bag at the same time, and will also make a neat finish on the right side of the work.
3. To make other side of opening.—Start at right-hand side of opening. Make 3 chains. Put 1 single crochet in first chain loop, and continue to work in the same way as you made the first side.
Material: Burnt orange double floss with black double floss for trimming three small wooden button molds. Bone crochet hook, No. 2.
1. With orange floss, chain 25; that is, make 25 chain stitches.
2. Make 24 single crochets. Chain 1 to turn.
3. Taking front thread of stitch only, put 1 single crochet in each of 24 single crochets, and add 1 single crochet in the last stitch. Chain 1 to turn.
4. Continue in this way (No. 3), adding 1 single crochet at neck end until there are 27 stitches.
5. On the next row add 4 chains after making 27 single crochets.
6. Put 1 single crochet in each of 3 of these chains, and 1 single crochet in each of the 27 single crochets, making 30 single crochets in all.
7. Continue to make rows of 30 single crochets until there are 13 rows from the beginning.
8. On the fourteenth row, make 20 single crochets. Make 8 rows of 20 single crochets for under arm.
9. On the twenty-third row, add 11 chain stitches. Use 1 chain to turn, and make 10 single crochets in the chain stitch,—also 20 single crochets in the single crochets (see No. 8) under arm.
10. Make 21 rows of the 30 stitches for the back.
11. On the next row (the forty-fourth) make 20 single crochets for 8 rows under arm.
12. On the next row (the fifty-second) add 11 chain stitches. Use 1 chain to turn. Make 10 single crochets in the chain and 20 single crochets in the under arm stitches.
13. Make 7 rows of the 30 single crochets.
14. On the next row make 27 stitches. (Be sure to make this row from the bottom upward.) Make 1 chain to turn.
15. Skip the first single crochet at the neck, and make 26 single crochets.