Materials
Crochet cotton thread, no size given.
Steel crochet hook No. 6
One wooden ball 1-inch in diameter
One wooden ball 1 1/2-inches in diameter

For the Largest Ball Ch 10 and join with a sl st into 1st ch st, 18 sc in the ring; 2 sc in each st for 18 sts, then 1 sc in each st until the cup covers about three-fourths of the ball; slip it in the cup and close by skipping a sc as often as necessary until the ball has just opening enough to bring the cord through; fasten off neatly.
Small Ball Begin with chain 8, join to form a ring; 16 sc in ring, 2 sc in ea sc for 16 sts; then 1 sc in each st and finish like the first ball.

Top for gathering sash: Ch 6, join to form a ring. Rnd 1 Ch 1, 12 sc in ring, join. Rnd 2 Ch 1 and increase every other st, join. (For each increase, work two sc in same st.) Rnd 3 Ch 1, sc in every sc, join. Rnd 4 Ch 1, increase every 3rd st, join. Rnds 5 and 6 Ch 1, no increase (sc in ea sc), join. Rnds 7 and 8 Ch 1, increase in first st and exactly in the opposite one from first. Join. Rnds 9 - 12 Ch 1, no increase (sc in ea sc), join. Rnd 13 Ch 3, work a roll st 0.5 in each st. Join. (Detail of roll st 0.5: Thread over hook 5 times, bring up a loop through a sc, thread over and draw through the coil on the hook, keep roll straight, thread over and draw through one loop on hook. Repeat this for each roll st.) Photo of a roll stitch. Rnd 14 Ch 1, 1 sc between each roll st, join and fasten off on the inside.

Tassel Ch 15, make a clounes knot on the end of the ch-15 like this: (Thread over hook, bring up a loop around the end of the ch as close as possible to the hook.) Do this 5 times, now thread over and draw through all the loops on the hook. Repeat from the beginning 5 times. Chain 15 and a sl st on the first ch of the fringe. Make 13 like it and gather the top as close as you can and make several inches of guard sts or a double ch, string on the two balls and sew fast on the inside of the top for the gathers.

(Detail of guard stitch: Draw out the last loop about two-eighths of an inch, thread over hook, draw up a loop through the closing of the ball, thread over hook, draw up a loop through the same place; thread over and draw this through all the loops on the hook.) This is the first stitch. The second and all others like this: * Draw out the last loop size as before, thread over hook, draw up a loop through the stitch below by following the place where first loop came through, thread over and draw up a loop through same place, thread over, and draw through all the loops on hook. Repeat from * for remaining sts and cut thread.

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Photo from New Designs in Tatting and Crochet, 1917

Pattern was originally printed in New Designs in Tatting and Crochet by M. Hemingway & Sons Silk Co. in 1917.

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