Round 4-PiR2

I've started on the 4th increase. I'm keeping the same pattern throughout. I can see that it doesn't line up with the original pattern, but I"m not going to fret about it. Catherine saw me looking over an area where I'd noticed a mistake in the pattern and she looked at me crosswise as if to say....NOBODY is going to see that! :) She's right. Just me. HA! I knitted this section onto a pair of Knit Picks needles so I could leave the cable in as a "lifeline". I had the opportunity to compare the KP needles with the Inox. I have to say I like the Inox much better for lace knitting. (see my note on knitting the DK Swish with the KP Options below)
The fine lace yarn slips too easily for me on the Options needles and drags a bit on the cables. The Inox work just the opposite with the needles giving you just enough drag to feel like you don't have to grip the needles to keep the stitches from falling off and the Inox cables slide very nicely. That being said, I still like the Options a lot for Magic Loop and general knitting as the heavier weight yarns aren't impeded by the Options cables (which are very nice and flexible, not to mention the color is going so well with my Petal yarn.

The Real Deal

My package arrived from Schoolhouse Press. I bought some bulky Sheepswool for socks and a skein of Unspun Icelandic. What I bought that for I don't remember. I think I just wanted to feel it. I'd read so much about it in Elizabeth Zimmermann's knitting books that I just needed to fondle it. I need to keep notes! Hmm, maybe it was a knit mobeus! Yeah, I think that might have been it. I was figuring I'd just to a simple lace pattern and when it ran out end it and graft it together. More like a wimple size. The dark brownish black is for Shean's winter Tam. Those are the Inox needles (regulars-grey enamel over steel) that I've fallen in love with.