Précieuse Dentelle post-blocking pics and another bonus doily pic (Viola)

Here's the bad post-blocking pic.  It's cute, in spite of the aggravation and all my mistakes and not terribly careful blocking. 

Here's a close-up of the hex-mesh-substitute texture stitches.

The upper part of the photo shows where I was doing slip 2, knit 2, pass the 2 slipped stitches over, which were done over the double yarnover of the previous round.  (Actually, the double yarnover plus 1 of the 2 stitches of the s2-k2-p2sso couplets of the previous round.)

The lower part of the photo shows the other texture stitch, in the columns inside the petal/leaf/whatever motifs.  For this, one round has a double yarnover between two double-decreases (A OO A).  Above it, on the next round, is a k-tbl, yo, crossed-stitch, yo, ktbl.

Was it worth the hassle?  Eh.

I'm still glad I knit this, since it's been on my list for years.  What can I say? I'm attracted to a certain kind of oddball doily.  I can check it off my list and move on to the next doily that intrigues me.

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Here's a pic of the Viola doily, knit many years ago.  I don't know if I've talked about this on this blog.  It's from Kunstbreien B39, pattern No. 5905.

There are charts for square and oval doilies using this motif, but I preferred the round one.  I did this one after the tulip doily in Leszner (which does have a pic on this blog from way back when), so it was not my first time wrapping stitches.

I do like the textural contrasts -- crossed stitches, wrapped stitches, columns of double yarnovers, and so on.  As I wrote earlier, the individual flowers in the Lavendel doily are this little motif.  There are many more of these flowers in the Lavendel doily than in this one, of course.  And Niebling used this flower motif in other doily patterns, too.  The Viola doily is small but it was educational and interesting to knit.  I enjoyed knitting it.  Or at least I don't remember not enjoying it, and I know I must have been very impressed with myself given the lessons it taught me.

I'm not really doing doily dithering about the Next Doily, but I'm not not dithering.  I can't do much until I see what's in the thread stash and estimate how far I expect each batch will go.  Much of the current thread stash consists of thrift store finds of vintage thread, mostly purchased as single balls and often as partial rather than full balls.  I have found, though, that the thread color (white and off-white, mostly) is surprisingly consistent over the years.

Also, I have other things I want to do.  Doilies may have to wait their turn.