Steady As She Grows

I kept at it last night until I was finally done with Chart two and starting Chart three. Whoo Hoo!! I will take a photo in the sunlight today to post; I keep telling myself that I am gonna love the color to wear, but the Knitpicks Iris colorway is hard to see while knitting. It is a pale brownish lavender (more politely, I should be calling it "pale lavender heather") that doesn't provide much background, and almost lets light pass right through it. I have been pondering what color background will make the pattern show best in a photo.

I keep admonishing myself to follow the maxim about admiring your lace often (this is the best way to catch a mistake), and realized at the end of chart two, pulling it in different directions to get the "blocking" effect, that it really did look great and I was getting it right, too.

Now, for the problems I am having: my Crystal Palace bamboos have joints of metal that catch the yarn. This really sucks! I love the scoopy points, and can't switch right away to a different needle in the same size, so am toughing it out, but it does slow me down. More frustrating though is the fact that I am using gold jump rings and many of them have a wide enough gap that my yarn slips through. I will be searching today to try and locate some tiny-enough plastic replacements. The other problem I experienced was slow going on the rows where I had to move a marker to work a double decrease, then re-insert the marker once the decrease was completed. Anyone come up with a shortcut here?

Happy Knitting!