Chapter XV: Mary Marie’s Cap

“WHAT now?” asked Fairly Flew.

“Next,” said the Yarn Baby, “comes what the little Miss has been wanting so much—

DOLL’S CROCHETED TOQUE OR CAP

(See pictures opposite page 104—color plate)

Material: Old rose (double) wool floss. Gray floss to
be used in making pom-poms.

Bone crochet hook No. 2.

Directions:

1. Make 50 chain stitches. Join the last chain stitch
to the first chain stitch with a slip stitch.

2. Make 50 single crochet stitches and work around for
20 rows. (See figure A on page 94.)

See color plate opposite page 104]

3. Make 2 slip stitches. Then turn, and work on the
wrong side.

4. Make 50 single crochets for 25 rows. Fasten the end
of the floss.

5. Thread a zephyr needle or a darning needle with the
floss. Lay the chain-stitched edge together like the
top of a stocking laid flat, and sew or overhand it
together from a to b to form top of cap. (See figure A
on page 94).

6. Fold up on outside of cap, about 12 rows of the
single crochet stitches last made. Fold up about 13
more rows. This roll forms the part around the head of
the doll.

7. Bring points _a_ and _b_ down to meet the roll,
and pin in place. Fasten points in place by sewing on
pom-poms for trimming.

_To Make Pompons_

1. Cut 2 cardboard circles, making them measure 3
inches across.

2. Cut out a circular hole in the center of each,
making it ½ inch across.

3. Cut off 1 piece of old rose and 1 piece of gray
floss, making each about 3 yards long. Put the ends
together, side by side.

4. Holding the 2 cardboard circles together, thread
the gray and rose floss into the center hole, over the
edges, into the center, over the edges, doing this over
and over again until the entire length of floss is used.

5. Put one leg of a pair of scissors between the 2
cardboard edges of the circles, and cut the floss apart.

6. Put a short double thread of floss between the 2
cardboard circles and tie the ends of the double thread
firmly together.

7. Tear off the cardboard, and carefully clip the
surface of the pompon even.

“Now, may I show you how Mary Marie looks in her cap and scarf?” asked Mary Frances, finishing off the pretty little toque in a short time.

“Indeed you may!” Fairly Flew replied, and Mary Frances ran to get her.

Soon she had the proud dolly dressed, and held her up for all to see.

“Wintry weather,
Blowsy gale,
Will never turn
Your dolly pale.

She will go out
Without a care,
Because her scarf
And cap she’ll wear,”

sang Crow Shay.

“She is to have another cap or a hat to match the first scarf that you made,” said the Yarn Baby. “She can wear that set to school—does Mary Marie go to school?” she asked.

“Oh, yes,” said Mary Frances; “to kindergarten.”

“Then we must hasten to get the little hat made!” Fairly Flew exclaimed.