flyinmysoup

driven by the desire to work on something that wasn't the Ribby Cardi (there was a dyelot thing, but that's another post) plus the fact that i joined Lacevember i picked the Heere Be Dragon Shawl back up. oh, and the second season of Lost might have had a bit to do with it also. anyhow. after tinking back the same damned two rows about nine times, counting and recounting, and then counting again, i finally found where my mistake was (i think). even if i didn't find the actual mistake, i figured out something to fix it up enough that i could move on, so at this point, i couldn't give a shit if what i did was actually "fixing". but i digress. here's a pic of the progress through the second set of charts:

there was a bit of a hitch in my giddyup around rows 150-151. in these rows, the pattern uses a combination of floating twisted, traveling stitches and what is called the "wing stitch". a tip to anyone attempting the HBDS: when you get to theses rows, remember to always work the floating twists on the same two stitches. i found that it was helpful to move all the stitches that need to be worked out of order BEFORE i actually worked them; just moving them from the left hand needle to the right hand needle, switching the order as called for, and then moving them all back to the LH needle to actually work them. after i started doing this, the rows with traveling floating twists were much less a pain in the butt.

in terms of percent finished on the HBDS, i made a little chart up. this is where i'm at so far:
the next two sets of charts are going to be very interesting to work, not because they're going to be terribly difficult of anything, but because the actual charts are going to take up so much room. each of the rectangles is an 8" by 11" piece of paper printed the long way, of course. i haven't come up with a really great idea on how to handle this. we'll just have to see, i suppose!