An absolutely wonderful find in a 1912 crochet book: Knee warmers (aka knee caps)! I did a little work and got the pattern written in modern terms, so if you need some knee cozies, I’ve got you covered!
Pattern is available free on ravelry and includes instructions for sizing up from the original. You’ll need fingering weight yarn, a 3.5 mm hook, and a willingness to do a lot of back and front loop stitches.
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i just found this pattern and want to make it for my mom, but I’m stuck on repeating rows 9 and 10 for rows 11-25… it says you will end up with 21 flo sc, but I can’t see how this is achieved by putting the (1 flo sc, 3 flo sc in next fl, flo sc in the next), It’s just making a peak.. Am I reading this wrong- can you help me?
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That bump is supposed to be there! You’ll want to move the stitch marker to the center stitch in the 3 flo sc each time so the increase always happens there. It will create a bump, but the bump will grow to be where the knee cap fits in the warmer. It smooths out as you work it.
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Thank you for answering back… Sorry if I’m missing the idea here, please bear with me as I’ve had to be away from crochet for about a year due to medical issues and this is the first thing I’m picking up..
Well, I ended up with 22 blo sc at the end of the row— so am i supposed to be increasing the flo sc on each side of ea row (5, 7, 9, 11, all the way to 21), which would give me an even number of the blo sc one a side — or am I missing something here.. Do you have a video where you actually make one of these, I’m good if I have a vid..
Thanks so much for offering this – and for your patience,
Hannah
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I do not have a video, but I’m sure we can figure this out!
Sounds like you’re at the end of Row 25. So, for Row 26-31, work even. so BLO stitches go into BLO stiches and FLO stitches go into FLO stitches and you aren’t doing any increasing or decreasing.
Row 36 and forward, you will complete the BLOs on either end, but you will skip the first FLO completely and work all the other FLO stitches as FLO.
So, the steps are like this:
1. Complete the first run of BLOs.
2. Skip the first FLO of the row.
3. Complete FLOs in all the other FLOs.
4. Complete the second run of BLOs.
Then, when you turn your work, you do the same thing, just the skipped stitch is now on the other end of the FLOs than it was before. Repeat until you’re back to 41 stitches total, which is what you started with.
Hope that helps!
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