Flower Basket Free Chart
A few suggestions for ways to use this chart:
Mini Wall Ornament
Suggested Materials: Size 10 crochet thread and a size 8 steel hook.
Gauge is not important for this project.
To make a mini wall ornament, crochet one piece.
The chart is 25 stitches across and 25 rows high.
Make a starting chain of 26 chains (for 25 single crochet).
If crocheting a background in afghan stitch, starting chain is 25 chains
(there is no turning chain in afghan stitch).
Crochet 25 rows.
Use embroidery floss to do the cross-stitch. I use two strands of floss at a time (floss has 6 strands; separate 2 strands to thread onto your needle). When cross-stitching is completed, work a round of single crochet around the outside edges, with 3 sc in each corner stitch. End off. Weave in ends. Handsew a 4 inch length of 1/8 inch wide satin ribbon to each side of the top, to use for hanging. Do this in such a manner that the sewing thread will not show through to the front of the piece. I sewed each ribbon length on at a slight angle (angled inward), sewn to the back of the piece. I folded the ribbon end under about 1/8 inch, before sewing in place, so that it would not be leaving a raw edge. Tie a single knot in the two ribbon lengths, about 1 inch from the top.
Pincushion
Make a front piece the same as the Mini Wall Ornament. In addition,
make a plain piece the same size for the back. When cross-stitching is
completed on the front piece, place
the two pieces, wrong sides together and work a round of single crochet
around three sides, working through both thicknesses, to join the two
pieces (work 3 sc in each corner stitch, so corner will not curl). Do
not end off. Stuff firmly. Now crochet across the
fourth side to close. Slip stitch in beginning sc. End off. Weave in ends.
The color key above shows numbers corresponding to three brands of embroidery floss. When doing a cross-stitch of the chart on a thread crocheted background for the Mini Wall Ornament or the Pincushion, embroidery floss will be used. When making this design as an afghan square, use yarn in your choice of similar colors for the cross-stitch portion.
Afghan Square
Crochet with the yarn weight of your choice. To make a square the
same size as the chart, follow the same starting chain and
other directions as for the Mini Wall Ornament piece. Or crochet a larger
afghan square and then center the design on the larger square. Work one round of
single crochet around the outside edges of the finished piece,
working 3 sc or (sc, ch 1, sc) in each corner.
In the year 1922, this pretty flower basket appeared as a small design in the publication Star Needlework Journal (per date of publication, now copyright-expired). The chart lines in the vintage pattern are a faint blue that wouldn't reproduce well in a scan. I recharted the design in color symbols so that you would have a modern chart to work from and be able to enjoy this simple, but lovely, vintage pattern.
I added all the instructions that are on this page; there were no instructions at all in the 1922 book, just their chart version.
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