Two-Colour Chair Seat Cover (1941): vintage crochet pattern

Materials

• Knit-Cro-Sheen mercerized cotton (a size 10 weight today)
• Yardage: 3 balls dark colour and 2 balls light colour, as printed — check the ball band for yardage
• Tapestry needle, rustproof pins and starch for blocking
• Hook: Start with a 1.5 mm (US 8) steel hook and change size to get 10 dc and 4 rows to 1 inch (the printed hook is Milward's No. 8 or 9).

Abbreviations (US terms)

ch

chain

sl st

slip stitch

dc

double crochet

sts

stitches

st

stitch

yo

yarn over

dec

decrease

Notes before you start

• Source: "Chair Seat" (7250), Old and New Favorites (Book No. 172), The Spool Cotton Company, 1941. Public domain in the USA.
• As printed — materials: J. & P. COATS KNIT-CRO-SHEEN, 3 balls of dark color and 2 balls of light color.; Milward’s Steel Crochet Hook No. 8 or 9.. Gauge: 10 dc make 1″; 4 rows make 1″ (each individual square on chart indicates 3 dc)..
• Modernisation note: Transcribed from the original publication; stitches, repeats and their order are unchanged.
• Modernisation note: Run-on paragraphs split into one round, row or step per line.
• Modernisation note: The source leaflets already use US crochet terms; only abbreviations and wording were modernised.
• Modernisation note: “thread over” → “yo” (yarn over)
• Modernisation note: “attach” → “join”
• Modernisation note: Round/row labels rewritten in modern form (e.g. “2nd Round.” → “Rnd 2:”, “7th to 10th rnds incl:” → “Rnds 7–10:”)
• Modernisation note: Page numbers, page-continuation notes and illustration references removed.
• Modernisation note: Hook numbers in the original are Milward's steel hook sizes; a starting size is suggested from the thread weight instead of converting the old numbering.
• Modernisation note: Stitch counts have not been added; where the original prints a count it is kept as printed.

Chair Seat Cover

1. Starting at front edge, with dark color ch 185 (to measure about 19″).
2. Row 1: Dc in 4th ch from hook, dc in next ch, yo, insert hook in next ch and draw loop through; yo and draw through 2 loops; drop dark color, join light color and draw through remaining 2 loops (3 dark dc made). Holding dark color along top of chain and working over it to conceal it, work dc in 7 ch. yo, insert hook in next ch and draw loop through; yo and draw through 2 loops; drop light color, pick up dark color and draw through remaining 2 loops (6 light dc made). * With dark color make 3 dc, carrying light color concealed and completing last dc with light color as before. Make 6 light dc, carrying dark color and completing last dc with dark color. Repeat from * 18 more times, 3 dark dc, ch 3, turn.
3. Row 2: Working into dc, carrying unused color and working over it to conceal it, make 2 dark dc, * 6 light dc, 3 dark dc. Repeat from * across. Hereafter follow chart, decreasing 1 st at both ends of the 10th row and every other row thereafter until 141 sts remain—to dec. work off 2 dc as 1 dc. When design is completed, fasten off light color (141 dc). With dark color, sl st across 1st 10 dc, ch 3 and make dark dc in each dc across to within 10 dc from opposite end. Work across these 121 dc without decreasing for 3″. Fasten off.
4. CHART FOR No. 7250
5. DARK COLOR
6. LIGHT COLOR
7. EACH INDIVIDUAL SQUARE INDICATES 3 D.C.