Lavori 07/30 regress report

I think I'm probably gonna back out my changes to round 163 and 165.  I'll follow the second charted rep for rounds 165/167/169.  Round 171 will have one extra hex mesh motif.  I'll keep following the same decrease pattern and do my kludging at the end.

This means I'll have a few more stitches than charted for some of those rounds.  Dunno if that'll do anything to the way the blocked doily is distorted in that area.

Why I'm doing it -- I'd like a clean finish to this area of hex mesh.  I'd like the edge decreases to be symmetric and consistently angled (though a consistent rate of decreases isn't going to be all that noticeable).  I'd like to finish the hex mesh area with a single motif of k2t-yox2-skp rather than yo-skp-k2t-yo.  Also, I believe (hopefully correctly) that it might be easier to adjust in the area where the hex mesh transitions of a column of yo-sk2p-yo.

So.  This is the problem:  In round 163, there are 7 reps of the hex mesh motif.  The decrease pattern supports the typical thing of reducing one hex mesh motif per pattern round, alternating k2t-yox2-skp with yo-skp-k2t-yo.

As charted, this does not work.  I can make the stitch count work (which I did with my original changes).  But then I'm offset on the hex mesh.  That cascades upward.

The symmetry means that I should be going from 7 reps, 6, 5, 4, etc., with the odd numbers being k2t-yox2-skp and the evens being yo-skp-k2t-yo.  Round 171 compared to round 163 means that one of these is missing, that I go 7, 5, 4, 3, etc., with 6 being missing.

So I'm going to go back.  I'll have one more hex mesh motif than charted in 171.  But hopefully I can at that point continue to decrease in pattern, so that I end up with a final section of k2t-yox2-skp before the final double-decreases that close the section.  I might have to be a little bit creative with edge decreases and how they merge with the leaf tip closures, too.  I also see a few symmetry inconsistencies that will probably turn out to be chart typos in addition to all of that.

I might be cussing at myself by the time I reach round 180 or so, but I'm already cussing at myself at round 167.

If I go back to round 164 (and re-pick up the second yarnover at the edges of the hex mesh sections), then this is a doily regress report.  If I do the smart thing and test out a few ideas in actual needle and yarn before committing to anything, then this is a doily hiatus report.

In other yarn news, the travel shawl project is almost at the end of the second skein of yarn.  It's not going to be a very large shawl, apparently.  Oh, well.  I'll block it a bit bigger and it'll be more of a shawlette than an encompassing giant shawl like the alpaca one I finished a while back.

My weaving is going reasonably well, too.  I'm gradually getting more consistent and a bit faster.