This will bring the work to the joint or crotch of the thumb.
4. Make 3 chain stitches, and continue to make single crochet stitches. Do not skip any stitches for the opening of the thumb, but make single crochet stitches all around on the 18 single crochet stitches, and in the 3 chain stitches—that will make 21 stitches.
5. Make another row of single crochet stitches on the 21 stitches.
6. Continue to work single crochet stitches, but on the next 2 rows, skip 1 stitch directly over the thumb opening.
This finishes the hand of the mitten. The thumb will be made later.
Make 3 chain stitches. Make a row of double crochet stitches.
1. Put 1 single crochet stitch between the first and second double crochet stitches.
2. Put 3 double crochets between the next 2 double crochets.
3. Put 1 single crochet between next 2 double crochets, and 3 double crochets between the next 2. Continue to do this all around the top.
4. Tie on the trimming cotton, and make 1 slip stitch in each double crochet of the scallops, with 2 chain stitches between each slip stitch.
1. Fasten yarn to the inner edge of the little opening. (See picture on page 212.)
2. Make single crochet stitches in the stitches around the opening, except on the top part of the thumb, where you should put 1 double crochet. (That is, in the middle chain stitch. See No. 4 on page 212.)
5. Third row: Make single crochets in every other stitch, drawing the thumb down to a point. Break off the yarn and draw end with a zephyr needle into the inside of the thumb.
With the trimming cotton, make a chain of 50 chain stitches, and run through the runner spaces as in making doll’s petticoat (page 90.)
NOTE.—To help dolly from losing her mittens fasten them together.
Mary Marie no sooner had the mittens on than she ran to the door of the room.
“Tum on, Mamma,” she said, “let’s doe for a walk.” Mary Frances caught her up in her arms, and after a hurried good-bye to the Knitting and Crocheting People, went out with her.
THE next morning Mary Frances was awakened early by a ring of the door bell.
“I’ll run down to the door,” called Billy. “I am up and dressed. I wonder who it can be?”
“All right!” called Mary Frances, slipping into her kimono.
“It’s a telegram from mother,” said Billy, coming upstairs.