Crochet Edgings
St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated here in the US on March 17th, that’s coming up soon, so I thought I’d share some Irish Crochet Edgings. These patterns are from a Spool Cotton Company crochet booklet of EDGINGS printed in 1942.
Irish crochet is one of my favorites. I love how dainty, delicate and lacy it turns out. I’ve written and shared Irish crochet patterns on a couple other blog posts, check them out here.
Crochet Lace
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General Information
This scan is from the booklet and has general information about the crochet stitches that may help when following the pattern.
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PDF File Download Link
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Irish Crochet Lace Edging Patterns PDF
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I’m a complete newbie and am practicing this stuff just for fun… I’m working on 8775 and am stumped by the ‘dc in dc’ instruction. Does this mean to dc into the same stitch as the previous dc? Or to go back on the chain of 5 and dc into the top of the previous dc? Or am I just completely off? I’d appreciate any help. Thanks!
I’m not sure, but you could search for “how to read vintage crochet patterns” and find a couple places that may be helpful. I found this on The Sewing Stuffs website — “Double crochet on top of the last double crochet: Place a double crochet directly on the last double crochet from the previous row.” Also do a search on YouTube on how to read vintage crochet patterns, there are quite a few that might help answer your question.
I started pattern No. 8697. In that pattern it is mentioned in bracket p mentioned like (Ch 2, p) twice) can you help me?
I believe the p stands for a Picot. From this website, the explanation of a picot stitch:
https://www.anniescatalog.com/crochet/content.html?content_id=11
“Picots are created by chaining the number of stitches called for in the pattern and then working a slip stitch in the indicated stitch or space. The picot stitch is great to use for edging a crochet project! The first picot stitch creates a wider looking stitch that is firmly attached to the crochet project.”
Later today, I’m out this morning, I’ll take a look at the booklet and see if there is more explanation of the stitches used. If there is one, I usually like to include it with the patterns.
Sorry it took so long. I just found the booklet these patterns came from. I’ve added the General Information page to the blog post. It helps explain the different stitches. The p does stand for a Picot.
Picot must be (ch3, sc in 3d chain from hook), if Im not mistaken