Crocheted Cogs

Crocheted Cogs (c)Severina/A Murphy 2008

Crocheted cog wheels, for those of you who have a kinky fetish for clockwork unmentionables, feel the need for steampunk table linens, or want a dress trimming to honor your robot overlords.

This has actually been lying around for over a year, waiting for me to write down the pattern. It was designed during an episode of weapons-grade flu and was used in a textiles-class project that went over like the proverbial concrete airship. So it sat and I glowered at it and unraveled it in a fury then had to do it all over again from scratch trying to remember just what the hell I did the first time.

The little starfish arms curl all by themselves, much to my surprise, so they look like the flywheel of an old lathe at my job.

No gauge needed but example was crocheted with very fine weaving silk and a vintage thrift-store hook with no size marked, making a motif 4 1/2" x 2".

Abbreviations:
sc- single crochet
dc- double crochet
sl- slip
st- stitch
ch--chain
rep- repeat

Pattern uses US crochet terms.


Cog 1
The above diagram was included to make the printed instructions that much more confusing.
Row 1- Ch 6, join into ring.
Row 2- *Ch 11, turn, skip 4 ch, then 7 dc down chain to starting ring, 1 sc in ring*, rep 4 more times, making a 5-pointed star.
Row 3- Slip stitch along the chain-7 of the first arm of the star. This will bring you to the chain-4 at the tip. Ch 1, then 1 sc in the ch-4 loop. &Chain 11, then 1 sc in the the second ch-4 loop*, rep 3 more times, ch 11, then slip stitch into the first sc at the beg of row.
Row 4- Ch 2, *1 dc into sc, 12 dc over ch-11 of the previous row*, rep 4 more times, then slip stitch into ch-2 at beginning of row.
Row 5- *Sc in next 2 dc, make picot (ch 3, slip stitch into first ch)*, rep to end of round.


Cog 2
This one is made much like Cog 1 but with a 3-armed star.
Row 1- Ch 6, join into a ring.
Row 2- *Ch 8, turn, skip 4 ch, then 4 dc down chain to starting ring, 3 sc in ring*, rep 2 more times, making a 3-pointed star.
Row 3- Slip stitch along the ch-4 of the first arm of the star. This will bring you to the ch-4 at the top. Ch 1, then 1 sc in the ch-4 loop, *chain 13, then 1 sc in the ch-4 loop*, rep 1 more time, ch 13, then slip stitch into the first sc at beginning of row.
Row 4- Ch 2, *1 dc into sc at beg of row, 15 dc over ch-13 of previous row*, rep 2 more times, then slip stitch into ch 2 at beginning of row.
Row 5- *Sc in next 2 dc, make picot (ch 3, sl st into first ch)*, rep to end of round.


Cog 3
Row 1- Ch 5, join into a ring.
Row 2- Ch 3, work 22 triple crochets into ring, sl st into the ch-3 at beginning of row.
Row 3- *Sc in next 2 triple crochets, make picot (ch 3, sl st into first ch)*, rep to end of row.

Weave in ends.

Above motif uses 1 of Cog 1, 2 of Cog 2, and 4 of Cog 3. Sew cogs together making sure the gears mesh.