THE BEAR

Baby Bib

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Comments: First of two baby bibs I designed. This can be a toy bib or real bib depending on thread/yarn you use

The sample for this item is crocheted with FILET #1

Size : 26x24 cm (10 1/4 x 10 inches), ties excluded

Material : thread tricot no.5, hook 1.9 (Bates Steel 2)

Stitches : ch, sc, dc, dcl = dc cluster= dc not closed in first st, dc closed together with prev in second st

Difficulty: medium

Directions

Start with 50 ch.

Row 1.sc in 2nd ch from hk and in remaining chs

Rows 2-38 . Proceed following the diagram. (If the above link does not work, click here)

Use oblique increasing technique for increasing and decreasing rows. At the end of row 28, continue only on a side, doing 10 rows; then, join thread in x, (look at the diagram) and finish other side; do not cut thread; crochet the edging

Edge:

1. sc evenly spaced all around;

2. *(dcl in next sc, dcl in next sc) 5 ch, sk 3 sc*;Repeat * to* all around;

3. in ea 5-ch sp do (sc, hdc, 3 dc hdc, sc). Cut thread.

Do not crochet rows 2-3 of edging in internal part of bib.

Ties

Join thread in y (look at the diagram), 71 ch, sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each other ch, finishing with sl st in y. Cut thread.

Join thread in z (look at the diagram), 71 ch, sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each other ch, finishing with sl st in z. Cut thread.

Weave in ends.

N.B. Substitute first dc with 3 ch; for a filet primer, with increase and decrease explanations, go here

N.B.

• Always substitute (also if not explicitly said) first st in a row as follows:
• first sc with 1 ch, sc;
• first hdc with 2 ch;
• first dc with 3 ch;
• first tr with 4 ch...and so on;
• When you read "sl st to <location>", where the location is not immediately contiguous to last st, this means of course "an appropriate number of sl sts for reaching <location>".
• Also if I do not specify it, if you lasted prev row on a st (say st1), while you must start next row in another st (say st2), make an appropriate number of sl sts to reach st2.

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