I have a kind of philosophical question about the pattern - but it would be useless putting it to anyone who isn’t familiar with it …
Anyone ever made "Enchanted Forest" tablecloth?
That’s a beautiful table cloth. So what’s your question? The suspense is killing me! I probably won’t know, but someone else could. I’ve never crocheted with thread but I have knitted it.
Hey there, GG! I’ve just ascertained that I’m right, and that the pattern has an inherent problem. Let me see if I can report it succinctly (for me, [I]highly [/I]unlikely!) …
As you reach the part with the second lot of V shapes - still on the flat part of the tabletop - it goes into a series of rows like this:
[B]shell,ch 5, dcl in next 2 ch 5s, ch 5, miss 1st tr then tr in next 9 trs, ch 5, dcl in next 2 ch 5s[/B] and so on. The only difference in the next row will be the [B]miss 1st tr then tr in next 7 trs[/B]; and this continues over about 8 rows! I started getting anxious quite early, asking myself how this could continue without causing the tablecloth to start turning into a helmet, inasmuch as there is no increasing going on at all.
And I was right: it started becoming a kind of large cloche. So I increased all those ch 5s, row by row.
I would dearly love to find someone who’s made the bloody thing … :??
We have some excellent crocheters here, MGM comes immediately to mind. One or more of them might be able to help you figure it out even if they’ve never done that particular pattern. Good question, I hope you get it resolved. I’d love to be able to say I’d made something like that.
I started to increase the 5chs too late. I’m going to have to pull out the last umpteen rows and begin to increase the 5cm spaces to 6 then 7 then 8, etc., right from the first row of the sequence.
Infuriating.
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Hi GG and Marg1e! Thanks so much for the recommendation! This is a lovely pattern you are making Marg1e! I have done quite a bit of thread crochet and would love to help you out on this project. However my handwork time is extremely limited now and for the next couple of years as I have returned to college and am working towards a registered nursing degree, so I can’t take on projects that will distract me from my studies. If I do get a hankering for a good thread project, I may consider working on this one, but I can’t commit to it. I’m so sorry, because I would dearly love to work this up and share the solution here and with the publisher.
If you come up with a solution, do share it, and don’t be afraid to contact the publisher and share it with them too. You wouldn’t be the first person to run into this problem!
Good luck!
MGM
Dunno about ‘sharing it’ with 'em: more likely to yell at 'em very loudly.
Sighh …
But yeah, when/if it works out, I’ll post.
Hi to all
I am now working on my 3rd Enchanted Forrest crochet tablecloth and it has been so long ago that I dont recall any pattern errors - other than my own) which of course meant several needless ripbacks to fix. However in the current pattern that I downloaded from the internet, I have noticed something that looks a bit off. It shows up on round 20 where the 9dc change to 9tc. Although I have not reached the top of this round of trees, I suspect that this reduction of stitches continues to at least to the very top of the trees where there may be a 3tc cluster for the tip.
I have just completed the pattern to the point where on round 25, the first instances of tc’s appears and already I can notice signs of puckering. I am going to rip this round back and re-crochet this and following rounds with dc’s.
I suspect that there are at least 2 versions of this beautiful pattern floating around the internet - this one and another “broken” one. If I get any replies on this post, I will let you know the outcome of my efforts.
Harold
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Thank you for all the information on this tablecloth, Harold. It’s been over a decade since this question was posted. Still valuable for the next time the question comes up.
Round 10: changes from ch5 to ch7 spaces
Round 11: changes from ch7 to ch8 spaces
Round 12: changes from ch8 to ch9 spaces
Round 22: changes from ch3 to ch5 spaces
Round 29: changes from ch5 to ch7 spaces
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There are increases over several rows of the pattern as noted below. Unless you read each row carefully, these increases could easily be missed and WILL cause puckering.
Round 10: changes from ch5 to ch7 stitches
Round 11: changes from ch7 to ch8 stitches
Round 12: changes from ch8 to ch9 stitches
Round 22: changes from ch3 to ch5 stitches
Round 29: changes from ch5 to ch7 stitches
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