I was admiring a FO Shipwreck someone had posted on the Sanguine Gryphon forum on Ravelry (also done with Skinny Bugga, but in a different shade). She told me that from row 29 of the Madeira pattern on, she'd used an improved pattern developed by another Ravelry user that produces a more symmetrical-looking lace. I was on row 34 and had been following the pattern as written, but taking a look at my work, I decided that yeah, it WAS kind of off-looking, in spite of being technically correct. I had a lifeline in at row 31. This morning, while my boyfriend was driving me to work, I ripped back to that lifeline and started picking up stitches. When I finish that, I'll tink back to the beginning of row 29 and use the improved pattern.
Amusingly enough, when I went to look at the pattern improvement as described by its creator, I read this in her project notes: "Got to round 34 of the Madiera chart, didn’t like the way it was looking (fix from yesterday wasn’t a fix). Tinked back to end of round 29 and knit as follows[...]" Heh. Looks like we came to that decision in the same place!
Oh, the beads!!! The beads came in yesterday. They look lovely! I got two boxes each of the medium gold and light gold, and one box of the root beer. I figure I'll dump them all in a bag together and mix them up well for maximum randomness. They're going to look like little droplets of honey in a knitted honeycomb! (That's what this yarn looks like. It doesn't actually look so much like a bee, but it does seem to contain all the many amber-gold shades of honey. Beautiful.) I can't wait to start using the beads. I think I might even try just stringing some onto my next ball of yarn (ooh, I actually have to wind that skein into a ball, don't I?) this evening if I get a chance, just to see what they look like on the yarn. :)
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