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I’ve always wanted to try this accessory pattern – intended to ‘add a fresh note’ to your 1930s secretary dress, or in other words to hide the fact that you were wearing the same dress every day! – so I made up the set of collar and cuffs to try with my Jessie Matthews dress
It’s actually fairly simple crochet lace: only a three-row pattern, of which one row is just plain treble. But I’m proud of my home-made crochet buttons.
Material Notes
Chiltern crochet cotton – dyed with teabags!
Difficulty
Intermediate
Categories
- For
- Women
- Garment Type
- Accessories
- Style
- Vintage
- Material
- Cotton
Credits
- Woman and Home
From 1935 magazine – reprinted in “A Stitch in Time”, 1972
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May 18, 2012, 04.51 PMby staticstasy
Lovely! Do you think you could post the pattern? :)
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May 23, 2012, 01.07 PMby harrietbazley
I don’t think I can post the whole pattern here as the book I got it from was only printed in 1972 – there are quite a few free crochet collar patterns available on the Web.
The actual lace pattern is very simple: a row of trebles made onto the foundation chain, then a row of double crochet made into every other treble of the row beneath with 3ch between them, then another row of dc made into the central ch of the chain loops on the row below, with only one ch between them this time in order to create the same number of stitches per row you had to start with. Then you just make another row of trebles – one into each dc and each ch of the row below – and repeat as before.
The quirk is that on the second and third rows you only work into the back half of the stitch on the row below – putting the hook through one loop instead of two – so you get a more spidery effect and a bit of a ridge. (Ideally I think you should probably alternate between working into the back half and the front half so that all the ridges appear on the same side of the fabric, but the pattern isn’t that sophisticated.)
May 17, 2012, 07.28 AMby loulourosa
Good idea to do this, and a lovely job. I think I have patterns like this, I will look for them!
May 16, 2012, 09.15 PMby marionouchka
Nice, very original…
May 16, 2012, 05.25 PMby libra-s
Fantastic job! Well done!
May 16, 2012, 12.26 PMby skeeler
Beautiful way to “freshen up” a dress!