No. 8.
No. 8.
Football Cap
Crocheted with Japanese Silk, using black and gold, or any of the colours required for clubs. You require a ball of gold Japanese silk, one of black, a steel crochet needle, No. 12.
With the black make a chain of 3, unite, work round and round, increasing to keep flat, until you have 32 stitches.
Take the gold silk, work 2 rounds of double crochet; turn.
3rd round—In the 1st stitch work * 2 double crochet, 1 in the 2nd, take up the 2nd double crochet in the 1st of these 3 rounds, work 4 treble in it, join the 1st and 4th of these long stitches together by a single; repeat from *. Work 2 stitches in every stitch after the treble stitches.
4th and 5th rounds—Black, double crochet, increasing to keep the work flat.
6th and 7th rounds—Gold silk, double crochet, increasing as necessary.
8th round—Like the 3rd round. Work in this manner until you have 7 rounds of raised work, which will make the cap the right shape; it should be 6½ to 7 inches in diameter. Then continue the same with no decreasings for the band round the head; you require 4 rows of patterns for this. Finish the work with 2 rounds of black silk. Line the cap, add a piece of leather round the edge, and put a button, covered with double crochet worked in gold silk, in the centre.
For a Smoking Cap this shape, add a silk tassel, to hang down over the side.