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Nov 11, 2014 5:22 PM

BMC: BETWEEN MEALS CENTERPIECE NOTES

Originally posted to my forum on April 3, 2007:
The original set came from many notes on Doily of the Month group where I was one of the admin/mods, and internet searches, and my own crochet forum where we did it as a cal.   For days & nights, I sorted thru many notes, searching for any mention of the BMC, and put the original list together and in one place, and put them on my forum, where later, they were added to by my own forum members when we had the cal.  I will say it hurt to spend so long creating and gathering the notes, then see everyone being sent to someone else's forum to see them, where they were copied without permission.   Now I see where they are a pdf with someone else's name on the bottom.   I think of Crobee who suffered from rheumatoid arthritis and still loved her crochet and painstakingly wrote down notes for us - and now I see someone else presenting them with her 'I did this or that' sounding like they were the one who suffered thru the details.  Rest in peace Crobee.   Please don't copy and paste them somewhere else, but send them to my forum or here.   I am going to put them here also, because people who don't have paid memberships have trouble accessing messages older than 3 months on the forums.    This is where they are on the forum, where we had a cal on the BMC:
http://forums.delphiforums.com/crochetplus/messages?msg=666.1

Here are the notes here, incase that fails to open:

30" diameter - I'm guessing the name for this doily comes from it being so large it covers most tables, so it is only on the table BETWEEN MEALS, and taken off for actual eating!   I'm thinking my table is actually something like 26-28"!!!

3 balls of 350 yd size 10 thread, and I've heard some people needed a 4th ball!

Steel hook, size 6

You may have it in a magazine already, such as:

Old time Crochet Magazine from 1997, Vol 19, No 19, Pg 23-27.

If not, it's online at:

http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/pub/PDF/Corticelli5-1of2.pdf

 

NOTES I'VE SAVED OVER TIME FROM OTHERS, incase I got brave and made it one day:

1.  In round 39 a dc group consists of 13 dc, and yes the pattern is correct in telling you to slip stitch in the first 6 dc.

*Crobee has her notes on rnds 38 & 39 here: 666.47

2.  You will have 82sc and 82 ch-8 loops on round 39.

3.   On rnd 44 I had 82 ch8's

.  Q:  round 45. The pattern says to dc in each ch and sc around. I’m afraid I know the answer to this question, but I’ll ask anyway. Do I really dc in each chain or is it 8 dc in the 8-ch loop? I think I may need to go back and redo Round 44 to make the chains looser and easier to crochet into.

     A:  yes you really dc in each chain.  On round 45 after doing a dc in each ch and sc I had 738 dc, 185 V-stitches.
 
5.  Rnd 46 I have 145 V stitches, Also make sure you start right by dc in base of the first ch-5.

DBL TRBL CROCHET ILLUSTRATION:

http://www.anniesattic.com/crochet/content.html?content_id=6 

 
NOTES ENTERED ON JAN 27, 2008:
 
Notes:  Beginning chain is counted in with the stitches as a
> stitch.  Ex: ch-3 at beginning is counted as dc.
>
> Rnd 1:  36 dtr including beginning chain
> Rnd 2:  18 ch-4 loops and 18 sc
> Rnd 3:  18 ch-5 loops and 18 sc
> Rnd 4:  18 ch-5 loops and 18 sc
> Rnd 5:    99 tr
> Rnd 6:    99 sc and 9 ch-3 loops w/sc between (9 pattern repeats)
> Rnd 7:    81 sc and 18 ch-3 loops w/sc between
> Rnd 8:   63 sc and 27 ch-3 loops w/sc between
> Rnd 9:   45 sc and 36 ch-3 loops w/sc between
> Rnd 10:   27 sc and 45 ch-3 loops w/sc between
> Rnd 11:   9 sc and 54 ch-3 loops w/sc between
> Rnd 12:   54 ch-3 loops w/sc between
> Rnd 13:  54 ch-3 loops w/sc between
> Rnd 14:  3 dc in each loop x 54 loops = 162 dc
> Rnd 15:  164 sc
> Rnd 16:  82 ch-2 sps and 82 dc
> Rnd 17:  41 v-st with 41 ch-3 between
> Rnd 18:   41 v-st with work between
> Rnd 19:  41 v-st with work between
> Rnd 20:  41 v-st with work between
> Rnd 21:   41 v-st with work between
> Rnd 22:  41 v-st with work between
> Rnd 23:  41 v-st with work between
> Rnd 24:  41 v-st with work between
> Rnd 25:  41 v-st with work between
> Rnd 26:  41 v-st with work between
> Rnd 27:  41 v-st with work between
> Rnd 28:  328 dc
Rnd 29:  246 dc and 41 ch-2 spaces (41 repeats)
Rnd 30:  246 dc and 82 ch-2 spaces (41 repeats)
Rnd 31:  246 dc and 123 ch-2 spaces (41 repeats)
Rnd 32:  246 dc and 164 ch-2 spaces (41 repeats)
Rnd 33:  287 dc and 164 ch-2 spaces  (41 repeats)
Rnd 34:  328 dc and 164 ch-2 spaces  (41 repeats)
Rnd 35:  369 dc and 123 ch-2 spaces (41 repeats)
Rnd 36:  410 dc and 82 ch-2 spaces (41 repeats)
Rnd 37:  451 dc and 41 ch-2 spaces (41 repeats)
Rnd 38:  533 dc
Rnd 39:  82 ch-8 loops with sc between
 
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CROBEE'S ADDITIONAL NOTES ON RNDS 38 & 39:

Rnd 38: "Ch 3, dc in ea dc and ch around. (I think she meant to say; dc in ea dc and ch sp around. But I could be wrong!

What I did was a little different.  I did dc in ea dc but instead of dc in ea ch, I just did one dc in the ch space ( the ch space is made up of a ch 2 from the previous round)  If you do a dc in each of the two chains it doesn't work out right for rnd 39.

Rnd 39:  sl in next 6 dc's, ch 1, sc in same place. *ch 8, sc in center dc of dc group, ch 8, sc between dc groups.

The groups of dc's are made up of 11 dc's, so I did a sc in the center dc which would be the 6th dc, then for the 'sc between dc groups' I did a sc in the one dc I had done in the chain space of Rnd. 38

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Rnd 40:  82 ch-9 loops with sc between
Rnd 41:  82 shells with ch-3 loops between
Rnd 42:  82 v-st with work between
Rnd 43:  82 shells with work between
Rnd 44:  82 ch-8 loops with sc between
Rnd 45:  738 dc

Rnd 46:  184 v-st      This is the round that I had to "fudge"
on.  You have repeats of "v-st, skip 3 dc" which will be worked over
4 stitches.  But 738 is not evenly divisible by 4 and you need to
come out with 184 v-st to make the rest of the pattern line up
correctly.  So I skipped an extra dc between 2 of the v-st repeats;
one close to the beginning of the row and one a little past the middle.

Rnd 47:  184 v-st
Rnd 48:  92 loops
Rnd 49:  92 loops
Rnd 50:  92 repeats: 276 sc and 92 ch-4 loops
Rnd 51:  644 dc (7 time 92 repeats)
Rnd 52:  23 repeats (each repeat worked over 28 sts. from last row)
Rnd 53:  23 repeats (13 sc and 2 shells per repeat)
Rnd 54:  23 repeats (11 sc and 2 larger shells per repeat)
Rnd 55:  23 repeats (9 sc and 16 dc per repeat)
Rnd. 56:  23 repeats (7 sc, 16 dc, and 1 v-st per repeat)
Rnd 57:  23 repeats (5 sc, 18 dc, and 1 v-st per repeat)
Rnd 58:  23 repeats (3 sc, 20 dc with ch betw per repeat)
Rnd 59:  23 repeats (1 sc, 12 dc with ch betw per repeat)
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MARY'S NOTES:

My suggestions on the pattern.  Do not even debate changing the directions from the way the pattern is written on round 45 and round 51...just change it -put the dcs in the loop.

Round 39:  I didn't have to sl stitch 6...I just started out with ch 1, sgl cr in the same place and *ch 8..... etc.,( I know elsewhere on the notes it says to do the slip stitches....????)  just do what you need to do to get the ch 8's around

Round 45: easier way and does not change the look of the doily since the stitches above hold the stitches in place:

Ch 3, 8 dc in each chain loop 8 below and dc in each sgl cr around, join with a sl st to the top of beg ch-3.

Round 51: easier way and does not change the look of the doily since the stitches above hold the stitches in place.

Ch 3, 4 dbl cr in each ch 4 loop and dc in each sc  around, join with sl st in top of ch-3

Also: when crocheting on a large project, don't count your progress by rounds since as you get out farther, it takes time to get around the piece.  Instead, measure your progress by the use of thread and watch the ball get smaller. 





 
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