Vintage: Blucher Slipper Free Crochet Pattern

Vintage: Blucher Slipper

Blucher Slipper
Technique: Regular Crochet

This pattern was originally published in Fleisher’s Knitting & Crocheting Manual, Twelfth Edition 1914. The book is now in the public domain.

The following republished text is © Kim Guzman, Nov. 2015.

Vintage and antique patterns were not written in the same form as they are currently. It will take a lot more “thinking outside the box”. There are a lot of details that are omitted in older patterns.

I cannot offer pattern support for this pattern as I have not made it. I am simply providing the pattern because it’s fun and I think it’s important to document our crochet history.

Materials

  • 3 skeins of Fleisher’s Germantown Zephyr, 8-fold, any color desired
  • 1 steel needle No. 6
  • 1 bone needle No. 3
  • 1-1/2 yds. ribbon
  • 1 pair lamb’s wool soles No. 4

Notes

This blucher is made in two separate parts.

Crochet Pattern Instructions

Front

Make a chain of 7 stitches.

1rst row: Skip 1 chain, 1 single crochet in next 5 stitches, 3 single crochet in last stitch, single crochet in next 5 stitches on opposite side of chain.

2d row: 1 single crochet in each stitch.

Increase in center of every other row until there are 37 stitches, turn, chain 1.

25th row: 1 single crochet in each stitch for 38 stitches, turn.

26th row: 1 single crochet in each stitch for 19 stitches, turn.

27th row: 3 single crochets in center or 10th stitch. Increase in this stitch every other row until there are 6 ridges or 12 rows. Then 1 row plain. Next row, in every other stitch across top, make 1 single crochet, 2 chain and 1 single crochet.

Back

Make a chain of 18 stitches. On this, work 17 single crochets for 2 rows. Increase at the end of every other row until there are 21 stitches. Now decrease every other row until there are 15 stitches. Make ridges without increasing or decreasing; then increase on the same side until there are 21 stitches. Join to each front by placing the straight edges together and crocheting 8 stitches from bottom on each side. In the front make 1 double crochet with 3 chains between in every other ridge for ribbon lacing.

Around top, beginning at point, make 1 single crochet, 3 chain and 1 single crochet in top of every ridge.

Sew to sole, wrong side out, turn heel first, then lace with ribbon.