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.
-----------------
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!
No comments:
Post a Comment