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Princess Loretta Crocheted Scarf -1916

3/18/2023

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This week I'm sharing my attempt at the Princess Loretta Scarf. The flyer has a colorized photo in addition to the black and white one and that helped make the stitches easier to see.
The materials needed for this pattern are:
  • 5 balls of Princess Pearl Cotton, size 5
  • Steel crochet hook No. 3 (2.1 mm)
I have about 5 small balls of size 5 Pearl Cotton but I didn't think it was enough to do this pattern so I substituted Knit Picks Stroll, a fingering weight yarn. I did have the suggested hook but after trying it with that one I switched to a 2.25 mm hook instead. The suggested hook made it very stiff and the yarn kept splitting.

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The instructions say that the scarf should turn out to be 52 inches long and gave these instructions; "A chain of 79 stitches will make a scarf about 9 inches wide. This is a good width."  That's a gauge of 8.6 stitches per inch.  
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I went up a hook size but I don't think that the fingering weight yarn is much bigger than pearl cotton so I wasn't too worried and just assumed that it would be close. It was not close. I ended up with a chain of 53 to get a width of just over 9 inches. That's more like 6 stitches per inch.  Still, this is a scarf so it shouldn't matter that much and I really didn't want to find a lace weight yarn to do a 52 x 9 inch scarf. 

Rows 1 -19 are just single crochet stitches across. Row 20 is a star stitch and they give very specific instructions on how to make the stitch. Row 21 is single crochet again and you repeat those rows once.  Then you do a bunch more single crochet and then repeat the star stitch part again until the scarf measures 28 inches.  Here's what that looks like:
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Not long after this I realized the my stitches were much shorter gauge than what the picture looked like and this was going to take longer than I anticipated. I wasn't enjoying doing this stitch pattern with this particular yarn and decided it just wasn't worth the yarn and time to finish it. 
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Here's the scoring:
Is the pattern easy to understand? Yes 1.0
If there is a gauge, could I match it? No 0
Does it look like photo? For the part I finished, I think it was close 0.5
Would someone wear it? Because this was a DNF I'm giving it a 0
Did I enjoy making it? No 0

Total score is 1.5

Next week I have fun photos from a magazine I picked up at a sale.  Based on the ad on the back cover can you guess the year it's from?
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    I'm from Minnesota and have been crocheting since 2003.  I inherited a box full of Workbasket Magazines from my mother-in-law and became obsessed with the vintage patterns.  

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