KnitPicks Shadow Opal Heather, merino lace, 440 yards
Beads: 8/0 miyuki silver-lined crystal
Cast on US#4, body US#6, bind off US#9
Knitting small size as written, no mods, using all beads specified.

Row 28 (end clue#3) lifeline installed, 169 stitches.
01/29: Set aside for test knit at end of clue#3
02/10: Clue#4 started. Not sure what all the angst was about over the yo3 and k-yo-ks.
02/11: Done through clue#4; two clues to catch up. Row 38 (end clue#4) lifeline, 197 stitches.
02/12: (end clue#5) lifeline row 48, 211 stitches.
02/14: (end clue#6) lifeline row 58, 239 stitches thus
L-1/33/34/34/34/34/34/34/1-R
18 grams remaining from here.
02/19: (end clue#7) lifeline row 66, 295 stitches thus
L-2/39/42/42/42/42/42/42/2-R
14 grams remaining
Bind off 349 stitches, 511 beads total, 44 grams; small size as written.
Finished at 55 inches at widest points across (bottom front corners); front edges at 13 inches; center back depth 18 inches; inside neckline curve 42.5 inches.

Got the ‘fleegle beader’ for this. Didn’t like it. Too snaggy on the yarn and too fiddly. Gave up after two rows, went back to my crochet hook. At least I have a nice little plastic tube with a cap to store my bead hook in now.

I think my tulips are hybrids of some kind. But, hey, rotate the photo at 180 degrees and I can see tulips now. Before I was seeing christmas trees, church spires, snake heads, even rocket ships. Not sure this will be the blocking I stick with. It still doesn’t look like the diagram very much or the other FOs. Will see what happens when it needs washed. Who knows what it will be the second time around?

Finally named this one with the confirmation that it is indeed tulips. It’s from Tom Robbins’ Another Roadside Attraction, set some 200+ miles north of me (we do have some peculiar place names here in Washington). I can’t remember the exact context, as it’s been 40-ish years since I read the book. But there is a reference to Humptulips, up on the Olympic Peninsula, and a character muses, Humptulips? Reminds me I always wanted to do a Dutch girl. So there you have it. Humptulips in heathered blue.