Cast on! Lavori 07/30

I think I have enough full and partial balls of white Clark's Big Ball #30 crochet thread to do this doily -- somewhere in the 1500 to 2000 yard range.  And I think the balls are all close enough in color.

So I cast on!

I am starting with the smallest balls (partial balls, either bought that way or left over after a previous doily) and working my way up.

I'm already up to round 30 after an hour or two of knitting, not that it's all that much considering how many more tens or hundreds of thousands of stitches I have left.  But so far it's been fun, with some hex mesh growing between columns of knit stitches.  On the next round I'll be starting the first set of leaves which will be at the base of the big flower motif.  I guess the columns of knit stitches are the stems of those flowers.

Once the doily is on one of my longer needles (probably at least a 32"), I'll give myself permission to do smaller doilies even while the longer one is in progress.  There are at least 3-4 smaller ones on my to-do list that I was dithering about before starting this one, as is obvious from my previous posts.

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Here's a bonus small doily pic.  I don't think I've posted this before.

This is Lavori 11/40.  It is 36 rounds and knit from leftover DMC Cebelia #30.  I do like DMC Cebelia more than Clark's Big Ball, but eh, I'll use what I have.  I like Cordonnet even more than Cebelia, and #40 and #50 more than #30, but it's not like I have a lot of that lying around, either.  This doily has 8 pattern repeats per round and no chart errors (or at least none I mentioned at the time).

I think the thread is the same as I used for Duchrow 64/05, which I posted a photo of a few weeks ago.  I'm pretty sure that the main thing made with this thread was Primula, a Marianne Kinzel design from the First Book of Modern Lace Knitting.  I'm pretty sure I made at least one or two more small doilies from the leftovers.  Dunno if any of this green thread is left or if it's all been turned into doilies, crocheted into snowflakes, and used in weaving/braiding projects.

I really should do a bunch of quick little doilies (<50 rounds) and put them into metal rings to use as sun catchers and wall decorations and other gift-like presentations.  It's been a while since I've done that.