This is Beyer 7014/09B, the small octagonal doily of a 5-piece set. It's 36 rounds and, as the name implies, 8 pattern repeats per round. There are no chart errors.
Three of the 5 doilies in this set are found in Burda 418, as doilies 31 to 33. I've knit those. So why not add the other two of the set if I don't have any better ideas? There's one left to go -- the larger hexagon, 7014/09C, which can also be blocked as an oval, not that I am likely to deliberately block it into an oval. Dunno if/when I'll get to it, but it's also a fairly small doily at 58 rounds.
The slight lopsidedness of the photo is due to the angle from which I took the pic -- it takes things that are mostly regularly shaped and adds vaguely trapezoidal distortions.
It was a quick knit. I cast on in the afternoon and was finished the same evening, and this was pick up and put down knitting rather than anything intensive.
There are some other cute sets in Beyer 7014, as I've already mentioned. Many were reprinted in Burda Folge 2 (also known as Burda 305) or other Burda specials. Some of the sets look like fun and others look like a pain. As usual, I will knit whatever appeals to me. If I like knitting it and like how it looks, I often enjoy having other variations to try.
Since I do not live the doily lifestyle, I have no use for lacy doily sets. I just knit them.
I feel like mentioning that the doily shown on the back cover of Beyer 7014 really appealed to me when I first saw it. There's something very swoon-worthy over the way the leaves distort. It wasn't in the magazine. It took me a while to track down the pattern -- variations are in various Burda publications and also a Diana publication. I only knit one motif as a standalone doily but enjoyed it greatly. One of these days I'll post a pic.
What's next? I'm not sure, though of course Beyer 7014/09C is a strong contender.
I'm in the middle of the most recent commissioned tablet-woven band, as I think I've already written about, while thinking about what I want to do when the commissions are finished. I'm also thinking about hauling out my marudai, inspired by Claudia Wollny's latest kumihimo Youtube video on Kawari Yatsu Gumi #1. Plus, as always, more fingerloop and freehand or disk braiding. But those are topics for another blog, not this one.
To get back to knitting, I've been trying to felt the Monmouth Cap, mostly by getting it very wet and throwing it in the dryer with towels, though it did go through a couple of washer/dryer cycles with other batches of clothing/towels/linens. It's being a little frustrating -- some parts of felting nicely, while others still have a lot of stitch definition and aren't felting much at all. I guess I'll keep going since the hat still needs to shrink more. I want all of it to be felted since it'll be a lot more windproof that way. If necessary, I suppose I'll have to finish it up by hand so I can personally target the areas that need more attention. I wonder why it is behaving this way? I don't usually have this problem with washer/dryer felting.
The cat bed is still occupied by cats so I haven't bothered to try to felt it. They don't care. I guess I'll wait until it needs washing. That way, I can be sure to felt some cat hair into it, too.
Other than that, it's the usual thinking about potential projects -- More hats? How about mittens and fingerless mitts? Start making socks again? Or the next handspun travel-project shawl? And the next sweater for me? And so on! I still want to make a doily rug someday but that's not really occupying much brain space at the moment since it's the same category as other stash-buster projects.
I really do need to decide on what thread to use for Lavori 07/30 so I can start that, too. Though as long as I keep knitting some kind of doily without getting too bored or frustrated, it's all good. Once I start the big one, it'll be a while before I get back to smaller doilies again.
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