Twin Hats

As with the blankets I made for the twins, which you can see in this post, I made their hats 'the same but different'. They can choose to wear matching blue hats, or turn them the other way and have hats with different patterns. Options are always good, I reckon.

Round 10 Begun

I've made a start on Round 10  of the Spring doily. After some careful measuring, I've increased the chains on either side of the single ring to 8 ds instead of 6 ds. I think that will ensure the round lies flat, without affecting subsequent rounds too much. All the other elements follow Renulek's pattern.

Second Top Is Done

I took a selfie in the mirror, since I'm on my own right now. I think I"ve made the neck a bit wide, but otherwise I'm happy with my second top. I used this chart for the lacy stitch pattern, but otherwise didn't use a pattern.

Round 9 Is Done

I've finished Round 9 of the Spring doily. Rounds are getting longer, of course, but still capable of being completed before the next round comes out, provided life doesn't interfere with tatting time too much.

Working on Round 9

Round 9 is almost a mirror-image of round 8, but the elements are not joined together, so it's not going to cup. They look a bit floppity now, but they'll be held in place by the next row.

Front of Top Two

I wonder why I bought pink cotton yarn when I already have a pink knitted top. What was I thinking? Anyway, I'm making this up as I go along. The lacy stitch forms a pleasing scallop on every fourth row, so I turned the 'skirt' upside down to add the bodice. I plan to work the sleeves downwards so that they'll finish with the scallop edge. The double crochet (single crochet in American terms) might be a bit solid, but I like the texture and the contrast with the lacy stitch.

Surgery

I had hoped that increasing the picot size after part of the way round, as I explained here, would result in the whole round lying flat. Mmm, no, the first part still stood up, in a most unsatisfactory way:

I didn't want to redo the whole round, of course, so I cut out the section that wasn't lying flat:

I had to hide ends on both sides of the cut, and create two artificial picots, one on the previous round, where I had climbed out of the round, and one on the ring that became the first ring - it had been joined to a ring that was snipped, and I needed a picot to make the final join to. That was simple enough. Once that was done, I could work a replacement section, and, phew, the whole round now lies flat. Just in time for round 9, which Renata has now published.

Thinking about it, I suspect that my joining picots in earlier rounds were too long and that's why the picots in this round have had to be very long. I hope the next round won't require adjustments!