Beginner Crochet - Diamond Medallion

Beginner crochet project: This medallion, if worked in the size cotton specified,
will measure about 2 1/8 inches in diameter.
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Materials: Corticelli Mercerized Cordonnet, art.66, size 50. One no.10 steel
crochet hook.
Beginner crochet Instructions:
ch.33.
1st row: 9 op.
2d row: 9 op.
3d row: 4 op., then a Bean st. made as follows: thread over hook, take a stitch
under the next 2 ch., thread over, take 5 more sts. In same place, drawing all
the sts. Up to same length, thread over and draw through all the sts. On hook,
ch.1 to fasten, d.c. in next d.c., 4 op.
4th row: 3 op., Bean st., 1 op., Bean st., 3 op.
5th row: 2 op., Bean st, 1 op., Bean st., 1 op., Bean st., 2 op.
Follow pattern from illustration Edge: (2 s.c. over 2 ch., 1 s.c. over d.c.)
in 1st 6 meshes with p. over center of 5th mesh, ch. 10, turn, catch back over
3d d.c. of previous row, turn, (3 s.c., p., 8 s.c., p., 3 s..c ) over loop,
fill remaining meshes with s.c., making 5 s.c. in corner mes. Work the remaining
three sides in the same way of this beginner crochet pattern.
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