Probably the final June 2025 progress report on Lavori 07/30

I'm still making progress on Lavori 07/30.  I didn't get a chance to work on it every day, but progress is progress.  There are over 100 stitches per pattern repeat now, over 600 per round.

I'm in the final section of the flower motif, with lots of crossed stitches to define the upper floofy bits (petals?  pistil/stamens?  generalized floral impressions?).  I've also started the third set of leaf motifs, which is a different style of leaf motif than the inner leaf motifs.

For the moment, there aren't any pattern repeats that begin and end with a yarnover, since the growing leaves are at the end of the pattern repeats.  In the early rounds where the leaves started and ended with yarnovers, the hex mesh used a k2 where a yarnover was adjacent to the leaves to keep it texturally separate.

Another few chart errors:

Round 113:  Another fairly obvious missing yarnover, just to the right of the flower motif section.

Round 113 also has a non-symmetric bit in the flower section -- all the knits turn into (yarnover, knit 1), which doubles the stitches for the flower.  That section does not end with an extra yarnover, which makes it slightly asymmetric.  This is correct as charted.

Round 121:  Yet another fairly obvious missing yarnover, in the middle of the hex mesh section after the flower.

Round 123:  Another missing yarnover directly above the missing yarnover symbol in round 121.

I see a few upcoming chart errors (more missing yarnovers) but I'll wait until I get there to confirm.

And here is a pic of my Touchstone shawl/scarf.  I'm over half done now, probably closer to 3/4 done.  I've finished the fourth set of eyelet bands and am close to the end of the next garter stitch band.  Then it's one more set of eyelet bands, a few more rows of garter stitch, and then it's done.  I'll adjust as necessary based on the amount of yarn I have left as I get close.

I need to start thinking about the next travel project, since this one won't last much longer.

I have no similar worries about the doily -- I've finished maybe 2/3 of the rounds, so I'm about 1/3 done with the doily.  I have lots and lots of knitting left to do.  Though if I want to sneak in a few smaller doilies in the meantime, I might do so.  Lavori 07/30 is on my 47" long circular needle now, so all the shorter ones are available for use.

Yet another June 2025 Lavori 07/30 progress report

Another week, another few rounds, another chart error.

Round 105:  there's a missing yarnover at the beginning of the pattern repeat.  I noticed this as an anomaly a while ago, and yup, it is indeed missing.

I'm done with the columns of twisted stitches, yay!  I had been twisting them on intermediate rounds, so it's kind of nice to go back to not needing to think or count on the non-pattern rounds.  Soon I will start the next set of leaf motifs, which will be part of this pattern all the way to the end.  Plus I'll soon increase a bunch more stitches and then start on a new set of crossed-stitch motifs as the flower fully poofs out.

The large number of stitches is somewhat tedious.  But there's enough variety that I'm still enjoying myself quite a lot.

My travel shawl is coming along nicely.  I've finished the section with four sets of eyelet rounds.  Now I do another section of garter, then a section with five sets of eyelets, then a few more rounds of garter stitch and then cast off.  It's more than it sounds like since the rows have an ever-increasing number of stitches.  But it feels like I'm getting a lot closer to the end than the beginning.  The ball of yarn is quite noticeably smaller.  All of this is subject to how much yarn I have, of course!  If I run out sooner than expected, I'll cast off sooner, too.

It also means I need to give more thought to the next travel project(s).  And, as I keep writing, I don't have enough projects on my needles and I really should cast on a few more -- a hat, a sweater, mitts or socks, etc., plus start planning the next semi-mindless shawl.

No pics today!

Lavori 07/30 progress report -- triple digits and another chart error

Yay!  I'm halfway through the rounds, and thus roughly 25% done with the knitting, give or take a bit.

There's another chart error on round 97 -- there is an asymmetry on the outside of the 5-X-5 sequences.  The right side has a yarnover while the left side has a double yarnover.  The single yarnover is correct for both spots.

I've finished the first part of the flower base, where there are a couple of rounds of garter stitch.  I've done the last crossed stitches of the lower leaves (well, second set of leaves; the first set is long finished).  The leaves have another few rounds before they finish merging into the background mesh.  There are still a LOT of stitches for barely being in the 100s, but so far it's reasonably pleasant knitting.

Things to look forward to -- more development of the flower, yay!  And I can see where the next set of leaves gets started.  Those will be around until the end of the doily, I believe.

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I can't remember if I've shared a pic of this doily before.

It's Burda 554/15.  It's really a square pattern, but I decided to experiment and see what happened if I did 5 pattern repeats instead of 4.  It was not fully successful -- I wasn't able to block it flat.  I still like how it looks.

This is what it's supposed to look like if one does 4 pattern repeats per round.

This was done early in my doily-knitting career, and it taught me some useful things about stitch counts and increase/decrease locations and the effect of relatively simple changes on the appearance of the doily.  I still am interested in those topics!

This might have been one I did simply because (a) it was small, and (b) I could read the chart without having to disassemble the chart pages from the magazine's staples.  That was definitely how I chose my first doilies from Burda 554!

First Lavori 07/30 progress report of June 2025

Just what it says...

The last leaves are starting to close and I've started on the flower, yay!

There's a chart error in round 93 -- a missing "1" in the middle of the pattern repeat, in the flower stem.  There's a small segment that should be O-1-O-1-O, and that second 1 is missing.  It's obvious when you get there.

It looks like a proper crumpled wad of thread.  I've done almost half the rounds which means I might be around 20-25% finished.  Except that it doesn't, since the stitch counts do all kinds of weird things rather than being a predictable and steady increase rate.  Whatever the true percentage of total knitting I've already done, it is clear that there is much (much, much) more to go.

I'm in no rush, luckily.

Onwards!