Chariot Wheel Chair Set

Chariot Wheel No. 7035

Home Decoration

Book 76

The Spool Cotton Company

1936

Materials: Clark's O.N.T. (8 balls) or J. & P. Coats (6 balls) Mercerized Crochet, size 10, White or Ecru; or Clark's Big Ball Mercerized Crochet, size 10, 3 balls. Milward's steel crochet hook No. 8.

When completed, chair back measures about 10 1/2 x 15 inches, and each arm piece about 6 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches.

This set is made in individual wheels and then sewed together.

Chair Back

Wheel: Beginning at center, ch 12, join with sl st to form ring.

1st row: Ch 21 (to measure 1 3/4 inches). Sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each ch across (20 sc). Make 1 sc in ring. Ch 1, turn.

2nd row: Picking up only the back loop of each sc, skip 1st sc, sc in each of next 20 sc. Ch 1, turn.

3rd row: Picking up only the back loop of each sc, sc in each of next 4 sc,* ch 5, sc in each of next 4 sc, repeat from * across, ending with 4 sc (4 p's made). Make 1 sc in ring. This completes the first spoke.

Do not break off but continue for the second spoke.

Second Spoke: 1st row: Ch 20, drop loop from hook, insert hook in 2nd p from ring and draw dropped loop through. Sc in each ch st of ch-20 (20 sc). Make 1 sc in ring. Ch 1, turn.

Repeat the 2nd and 3rd rows of first spoke once. Then make 4 more spokes same as second spoke (6 in all), but while making the 3rd p of the 6th spoke, attach to 1st spoke by making ch 2, sl st in end sc of 1st spoke, ch 2, and continue back on 6th spoke as usual. Fasten and break off. This completes one wheel.

Make 27 more wheels.

Joining: Place wheels in position (as in illustration) a row of 6 wheels and a row of 5 wheels alternately. Pin ends of spokes together in corresponding position and then sew them together on wrong side with over and over stitches.

Arm Piece - Make 2

Make 13 wheels and join as in chair back, having a row of 5 wheels for the center row and a row of 4 wheels along each side of center row.