My Eighth Series project is the crochet medallion. Looking back, I should have taken a closer look at the illustration before I chose it. Here's the illustration: Some things in the illustration match the pattern and some don't. The edging on the left side of the illustration has something very odd going on with the last row. That definitely wasn't in the pattern. See the odd spacing of the groups of three double crochets in a middle row? That was in the directions. The pattern suggests a thread that is probably the equivalent of size 10 thread and an appropriately sized hook. I used size 3 to make this a little bit bigger so it's more of a doily than a medallion. Here are the directions I wrote out with the US terms and my notes and changes and notes added in red as I went through this. Chain 8, join (I did a magic circle)
This was definitely not well written. The illustration didn't match and had some very weird edging. Here's what my symmetrical finished version looks like. I blocked to 10 x 10 inches. I like mine better than their illustration. Rating: Is the pattern easy to understand? No 0 Does it look like the illustration? I'm not sure if it was supposed to. 0 Would someone use this? 1.0 Did I enjoy making it? Yes, it was so laughably weird that I did enjoy it and since I used size 3 thread it made it easier to see and redo things that weren't working. 1.0 2 out of 4
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AuthorI'm from Minnesota and have been crocheting since 2003. I inherited a box full of Workbasket Magazines from my mother-in-law and became obsessed with the vintage patterns. Archives
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