The miniature carpet and the Elizabethan stocking are running neck-and-neck, as it were, although I confess that the carpet is a little more interesting to me at present -- I could have been a lot further down the stocking, I suspect, if I'd given my mind to it. Oh, well. I am finding a lot more inconsistencies in the carpet chart, which is annoying, and working from a photocopy of the finished carpet is like a game of Needlepoint Telephone, in that sometimes I work what I think I see, which may not always be what Cooper actually did (wh. wasn't like the chart anyway!). But, as it happens, now that a good portion of it has been worked completely and I can see the patterns and colors, I remember why I fell in love with it in the first place, so despite all of the irritations regarding the chart, I'm still delighted with the carpet itself. I have just realized that I miscounted on the little white triangle at upper left, so after I post this, I am going to have to go and pick it out.
I'm really tempted to take my steam iron to the thing -- it's a poor workman who blames his tools, but the canvas is warping a lot, and I'm tending to blame the thick/thin irregularities of the Paternayan, as sometimes the coverage is a bit thin and other times it is so thick that it squooshes out that section of the canvas. Or it may just be me, that I chose a canvas gauge that is just slightly too small for the wool -- there is always that to be considered.
As for the stocking I've moved it off of the circular needle and onto dpns. Am amused to find that the irregularities in the stitches have smoothed out noticeably in the two inches or so since I did, as common knowledge has it that your knitting is smoother on dpns! Some of the irregularities are due, I suspect, to my catching a few hairs of the easily-splitted yarn in previous stitch, which makes them pull out of shape -- hope this will not be too obvious once worn.
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