Vintage pattern · 1919 · crochet flower applique

Utopia Yarn Book Daisy

Free crochet pattern with chart

A little wool daisy from a 1919 yarn company booklet: eight petals, each a short chain worked back with single, half double and double crochet, around a ring, with a yellow center sewn on top. The same book sews daisies like it onto a sweater and a hat. The wording is already in American terms, and every stitch count has been checked.

Yarn: Wool or silkwhite and yellow
Hook: 4 mmour stand-in
Made: One flowereight petals

Every count checked by KrowsheaNo errors in the 1919 original. Modern US and UK terms, and a chart drawn from the counts.

Utopia Yarn Book Daisy rendered in Krowshea 3D Yarn — **Today** · rendered in Krowshea 3D Yarn, not AI

Black and white 1919 photo of a crocheted daisy with eight white petals and a dark center — **1919** · the booklet photo

Chart

Utopia Yarn Book Daisy crochet chart

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Crochet symbol chart of Utopia Yarn Book Daisy, drawn by Krowshea

The same chart drawn left-handed, mirrored

Reading this chart

Start at the center and read each round counterclockwise, the way a right-handed crocheter works.
Start at the center and read each round clockwise, the way a left-handed crocheter works.
Each round begins at its green mark, its first stitch or chain; its number is printed beside it. Rounds alternate dark and blue so they read apart.
The key under the chart names every symbol. Symbols follow the Craft Yarn Council chart standard.
The chart shows the petals; the written pattern has every piece.

Drawn by Krowshea from the checked counts, not traced from the original. New to charts? How to read crochet charts.

Written pattern

Round by round

US termsUK terms

Written in US crochet terms

Petals

1
white Ch 6, join with a sl st to the first ch to form a ring, [ch 9, working back along the chain: sc in 2nd ch from hook, hdc in next ch, dc in next 4 ch, hdc in next ch, sc in next ch, sc in ring] 8 times. Fasten off.
24 sc, 16 hdc, 32 dc

Center

1
yellow Ch 5, join with a sl st to the first ch to form a ring, ch 1 (does not count as a st), 10 sc in ring. Fasten off. Sew the center neatly to the middle of the daisy.
10 sc

Weave in the ends.

Written in UK crochet terms

Petals

1
white Ch 6, join with a ss to the first ch to form a ring, [ch 9, working back along the chain: dc in 2nd ch from hook, htr in next ch, tr in next 4 ch, htr in next ch, dc in next ch, dc in ring] 8 times. Fasten off.
24 dc, 16 htr, 32 tr

Center

1
yellow Ch 5, join with a ss to the first ch to form a ring, ch 1 (does not count as a st), 10 dc in ring. Fasten off. Sew the center neatly to the middle of the daisy.
10 dc

Weave in the ends.

The 1919 original

As it was printed

Utopia Yarn Book · "Daisy", among the crocheted trimmings at the front of the book
With white wool, or 2 threads of white silk, ch. 6 sts., join with a sl. st. to form a ring, * ch. 9 sts., turn, skip 1 st., 1 s. c., 1 h. d. c., 4 d. c., 1 h. d. c., 1 s. c. on the 9 ch. sts., 1 s. c. in ring, repeat from * 7 times, break off silk or wool. With yellow wool or silk, ch. 5 sts., join to form a ring, 10 s. c. in ring. Sew neatly to center of daisy.

The 1919 stitch names

This 1919 book explains every stitch with pictures in its "Explanation of Terms Used in Crocheting", and its names are the ones American crocheters still use. Nothing needed translating, only spelling out:

In 1919	US today	How we know
s. c.	sc	The book's own stitch lesson: insert hook, draw the wool through, over, and draw through both loops.
h. d. c.	hdc	The book's lesson: over, insert the hook, draw a loop through, over, and draw through the three loops on the hook.
d. c.	dc	The book's lesson: over, insert the hook, draw a loop through, then over and through two loops, twice.
sl. st.	sl st	The book's lesson: draw a loop through the stitch and the loop on the hook.

What we checked

Each petal: 8 stitches (1 sc, 1 hdc, 4 dc, 1 hdc, 1 sc) on the 8 chains left after the first of the 9 is skipped. They fit exactly.
Petals: the first plus 7 repeats is 8, and the 1919 photo shows 8.
Petal round in all: 24 sc (16 on the chains, 8 in the ring), 16 hdc and 32 dc.
Center: 10 sc in a ring of 5 chains.

How we read the old wording

"On the 9 ch. sts." names the whole chain. One chain is skipped and eight are worked.
The petal round is not joined. The original breaks off after the last single crochet in the ring.
Our written pattern adds a ch 1 before the 10 sc of the center. The 1919 text has none.

No errors in the original. The petal stitches fit their chain exactly, and the eight petals match the photo.

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