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Utopia Yarn Book Picot Diamond Swatch

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A small panel of single crochet with sixteen picots set in a diamond, one of the crochet stitch patterns in a 1919 yarn company booklet. Every row is worked from the same edge, so all the picots stand on the front. The wording is already in American terms. Checking it against the photo turned up three slips in the 1919 text.

Yarn: Medium woolnone named in 1919
Hook: 4 mmnone given in 1919
Finished: a small panel15 rows

Every count checked by KrowsheaWe found and fixed an error in the original. Modern US and UK terms, and a chart drawn from the counts.

Black and white 1919 photo of a rectangle of single crochet with small raised picots arranged in a diamond — **1919** · Pattern No. 7 as photographed in the 1919 book. The picot rows hold 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2 and 1.

Chart

Utopia Yarn Book Picot Diamond Swatch crochet chart

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Crochet symbol chart of Utopia Yarn Book Picot Diamond Swatch, drawn by Krowshea

The same chart drawn left-handed, mirrored

Reading this chart

Start at the bottom. Each row begins at its number, beside its turning chain, and the rows turn back and forth.
Rows alternate dark and blue so they read apart.
The key under the chart names every symbol. Symbols follow the Craft Yarn Council chart standard.

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

Written pattern

Row by row

US termsUK terms

Written in US crochet terms

Ch 29.

1
Starting in the 2nd ch from the hook, sc in each ch across. Fasten off. Break off the yarn at the end of every row and begin each row at the same edge. The 1919 picot is ch 3, 1 sc in the first chain.
28 sc
2
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), sc in next 14 sts, ch-3 picot, sc in next 14 sts. Fasten off.
28 sc, 1 picot
3
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), sc in each st across. Fasten off.
28 sc
4
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), sc in next 12 sts, ch-3 picot, sc in next 4 sts, ch-3 picot, sc in next 12 sts. Fasten off.
28 sc, 2 picots
5
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), sc in each st across. Fasten off.
28 sc
6
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), sc in next 10 sts, [ch-3 picot, sc in next 4 sts] 2 times, ch-3 picot, sc in next 10 sts. Fasten off.
28 sc, 3 picots
7
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), sc in each st across. Fasten off.
28 sc
8
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), sc in next 8 sts, [ch-3 picot, sc in next 4 sts] 3 times, ch-3 picot, sc in next 8 sts. Fasten off.
28 sc, 4 picots
9
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), sc in each st across. Fasten off.
28 sc
10
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), sc in next 10 sts, [ch-3 picot, sc in next 4 sts] 2 times, ch-3 picot, sc in next 10 sts. Fasten off.
28 sc, 3 picots
11
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), sc in each st across. Fasten off.
28 sc
12
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), sc in next 12 sts, ch-3 picot, sc in next 4 sts, ch-3 picot, sc in next 12 sts. Fasten off.
28 sc, 2 picots
13
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), sc in each st across. Fasten off.
28 sc
14
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), sc in next 14 sts, ch-3 picot, sc in next 14 sts. Fasten off.
28 sc, 1 picot
15
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), sc in each st across. Fasten off.
28 sc

Weave in the ends.

Written in UK crochet terms

Ch 29.

1
Starting in the 2nd ch from the hook, dc in each ch across. Fasten off. Break off the yarn at the end of every row and begin each row at the same edge. The 1919 picot is ch 3, 1 dc in the first chain.
28 dc
2
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), dc in next 14 sts, ch-3 picot, dc in next 14 sts. Fasten off.
28 dc, 1 picot
3
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), dc in each st across. Fasten off.
28 dc
4
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), dc in next 12 sts, ch-3 picot, dc in next 4 sts, ch-3 picot, dc in next 12 sts. Fasten off.
28 dc, 2 picots
5
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), dc in each st across. Fasten off.
28 dc
6
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), dc in next 10 sts, [ch-3 picot, dc in next 4 sts] 2 times, ch-3 picot, dc in next 10 sts. Fasten off.
28 dc, 3 picots
7
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), dc in each st across. Fasten off.
28 dc
8
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), dc in next 8 sts, [ch-3 picot, dc in next 4 sts] 3 times, ch-3 picot, dc in next 8 sts. Fasten off.
28 dc, 4 picots
9
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), dc in each st across. Fasten off.
28 dc
10
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), dc in next 10 sts, [ch-3 picot, dc in next 4 sts] 2 times, ch-3 picot, dc in next 10 sts. Fasten off.
28 dc, 3 picots
11
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), dc in each st across. Fasten off.
28 dc
12
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), dc in next 12 sts, ch-3 picot, dc in next 4 sts, ch-3 picot, dc in next 12 sts. Fasten off.
28 dc, 2 picots
13
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), dc in each st across. Fasten off.
28 dc
14
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), dc in next 14 sts, ch-3 picot, dc in next 14 sts. Fasten off.
28 dc, 1 picot
15
Join white in the first st, ch 1 (does not count as a st), dc in each st across. Fasten off.
28 dc

Weave in the ends.

The 1919 original

As it was printed

Utopia Yarn Book · "Crochet Patterns", No. 7
Ch. 28 sts., 1 s. c. in every stitch, break off yarn at every row. Second Row—Ch. 1, 1 s. c. in next 14 sts., ch. 3, 1 s. c. in first ch. st. for picot, 1 s. c. in next 13 sts. Third Row—1 s. c. in every stitch to end of row. Fourth Row—1 s. c. in next 12 sts., 1 picot, 1 s. c. in next 4 sts., 1 picot, 1 s. c. in next 12 sts. Fifth Row—1 s. c. in every stitch, to end of row. Sixth Row—1 s. c. in next 10 sts., 1 picot, 4 s. c. in next 4 sts., 1 picot, 4 s. c. in next 4 sts., 1 picot, 1 s. c. in next 10 sts. Seventh Row—1 s. c. in every stitch to end of row. Eighth Row—1 s. c. in next 8 sts., 1 picot, 4 s. c. in next 4 sts., 1 picot, 4 s. c. in next 4 sts., 1 picot, 4 s. c. in next 4 sts., 1 picot, 1 s. c. in next 8 sts. Ninth Row—1 s. c. in every stitch to end of row. Repeat these rows backwards from 8–1.

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 on hook.
picot	ch-3 picot	This pattern's own words: "ch. 3, 1 s. c. in first ch. st. for picot". Our written pattern closes the picot with a slip stitch in that chain; the 1919 picot closes it with a single crochet.

What we checked

Rows 4, 6 and 8 each list 28 stitches: 12 + 4 + 12, 10 + 4 + 4 + 10 and 8 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 8.
With 28 stitches the picots make a true diamond: after stitch 14; after 12 and 16; after 10, 14 and 18; after 8, 12, 16 and 20.
The photo shows picot rows of 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2 and 1: sixteen picots and one row of four.
Our pattern: 15 rows of 28 single crochet, 16 picots.

How we read the old wording

Row 2's "next 13 sts." is read as 14, so that row 2 is 28 stitches like rows 4, 6 and 8.
The chain is 29, not the printed 28: one chain is skipped before the first single crochet, as in the book's other patterns, and 28 stitches are needed.
The rows run 1 to 8 and then back from 7 to 1, as the photo shows. The printed "Ninth Row" followed by "backwards from 8-1" would make two rows of four picots.
"Break off yarn at every row": every row is worked on the right side, from the same edge.

Three slips in the original, all noted and none hidden: row 2 lists 27 stitches where the other picot rows list 28; a chain of 28 cannot hold 28 single crochet if one chain is skipped; and the repeat as printed gives two rows of four picots where the photo has one.

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