Can anyone identify this crocheted baby blanket pattern?

[SneakyPie]

Sorry the pics are so farking big.

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h5...ics/afghan.jpg

I found this baby blanket at the vacation house we stayed at last weekend -- it's obviously new (crocheted w/a double strand of worsted acrylic). It stopped me in my tracks, b/c it is the pattern of the baby blanket my great-grandmother made for me while my mother was pregnant, 43 years ago! I have been looking (unsuccessfully) for this pattern for about 15 years. It's not a simple single-crochet-chain-skip sort of thing either, it's clearly something a little more complicated, but I couldn't make it out without taking the thing apart (or taking apart mine, which I still have).

So, anybody have a line on a striped baby blanket pattern from 1965 or earlier, scalloped border? (The border is easy to figure out, it's the stripes giving me fits.)

Here's a slightly different shot: http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h5...cs/afghan2.jpg

[Melissaak]

I would love to try and help but I can't see the pics.

[joshs_girl]

It looks to me like row one is a double crochet - but worked into the space below (not just into the loops.)

Row two is a row of singles, done regularly.

Then another row of double, etc.

Maybe try a test swatch to see how that works out?

[Angelorum]

Photobucket says the pictures have been moved or deleted

[funfunkyfantastic]

Yeah, i'm seriously not seeing anything either.

[SneakyPie]

Crazy. I'll check the links and get them back up after I play guitar for eleventyhundred hours w/my kid . . . :P

[SneakyPie]

OK, links fixed! I'm counting on you ladies -- and possibly counting on your grandmothers . . .

[rootzdawta]

LoL . . . it's hard to explain but I can clearly see what the pattern is. It's single crochet but instead of crocheting the way you regularly do, you crochet under the previous row stitch's front and back loop as well as the little "bump" that's formed under the loops when you make a stitch. Clear as mud? It's bordered by a row of single crochet and then another row of what looks like "sc, ch 2, sc". Looks like worsted weight yarn, H or I hook.

FWIW, I often do crochet stitches like in this pattern if I want to produce an even more sturdy fabric.

[SneakyPie]

Oh my goodness! I envy your ability to see that . . . and your ability to put it into words! I am not sure I follow what to do exactly, but I am going to try it and see if I can make that come out looking like these blankets. Thank you!

[cristeen]

It looks to me like HDC around the stitch below, rather than IN the stitch below, so rather than inserting the hook into the stitch, you'd insert it into the space between the two stitches and do the stitch around the horizontal bar.

[funfunkyfantastic]

My brain doesn't wrap around these things. Probably why I have a heck of a time following patterns (especially when the patterns end up being wrong)

[rootzdawta]

Originally Posted by cristeen

It looks to me like HDC around the stitch below, rather than IN the stitch below, so rather than inserting the hook into the stitch, you'd insert it into the space between the two stitches and do the stitch around the horizontal bar.

I thought it might be hdc too . . . I looked at a piece I'm working on with both hdc and sc and it's hard to say but I'm leaning more towards sc.

[salty]

Originally Posted by SneakyPie

Oh my goodness! I envy your ability to see that . . . and your ability to put it into words!

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holy cow! i am so impressed!

[SneakyPie]

Well I haven't been able to execute these directions perfectly yet, so . . . BUMP! :P