Lavori 07/15 is finished!
This is an 80 round doily (plus crochet cast-off), 8 pattern repeats per round (and 16 PR/rnd in the outer rounds). The chart is NOT error free.
Chart Errors:
Round 51: Towards the end of the repeat, there is a | symbol that should be a double-decrease instead. It's fairly obvious.
Rounds 57-59 end up having an issue, but it's easily fixed. Instead of what's charted, do the following:
Round 57: (yo, k1b, yo, k3) all the way across. (This is how it's charted, but the chart omits one repeat, which ends up affecting how to chart round 59)
Round 59: (sk2p, yo) all the way across (you could do yo, sk2p instead of sk2p, yo, though that'll affect the next error fix)
And somewhere before round 65: K 6 more stitches at the end of the round before beginning the next round, so that the first stitch of round 65 is directly over the sk2p of round 59.
This was a reasonably fun doily to knit, though it had way more stitches than seemed necessary by the end. Perhaps it would have been better doing this with either 6 or 7 pattern repeats per round instead of 8. Dunno if that would have worked well enough, though, since the number of stitches in the early rounds is just about right. It's the later rounds where things go wild.
I think it is probably a Herbert Niebling pattern, and if not, then it's a design by someone who used motifs that are characteristically Niebling-esque. Whatever. It's a cute doily no matter who the designer was.
The thread was from the thrift store vintage stash. It was 300 yards of something that seemed like it was roughly #30 in weight. I ran out in the middle of round 79. Luckily, the leftovers stash yielded some DMC Cebelia that was sufficiently similar, whew.
Hmm, what doily shall I tackle next? There are a few more small doilies in Lavori 7 that could be quick to knock out. There's the old French language non-charted text-only doily I've mentioned before, clearly a Niebling design, that could be interesting to puzzle out. I could pick another big pattern, or do some designs by Erich Engeln or Christine Duchrow or Marianne Kinzel or one of the other greats. I guess I'll see what appeals, and also what thread I feel like using.
Other than finishing Lavori 07/15, I've been slowly working on my Miami Vice shawl and my Appledore gansey. There's not enough progress to be worth sharing. I've mostly been busy with other things.


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