Beads are Toho cc263 - Toho rocailles 6/0 inside color rainbow crystal/light capri

I seem to use less yarn than the test knitters and want to use up the most of this gradient. So I’m adding repeats, and instead of making the spine longer in chart two, I’ll do so by adding to the wings in chart 3. Hope to balance out the proportions by this.

Two more repeats of chart 3

Somehow the pattern repeat I chart seven seems different at the beginning and the end. Or maybe I’m knitting from an older version anyways, reversing the ‘k1 k2tog’.

Also, I’m puzzled: I knit more repeats, yet used less beads than per pattern and not that much more yarn. And yes, I triple-checked the number of repeats for all charts. Very weird. But maybe I was unable to count. It never pays off to let something linger for too long….

And the yarn - I love the gradient, it’s very smooth. But I’m not impressed by the quality of the yarn, way too many knots and uneven parts!
UPDATE on the yarn quality: Wollelfe contacted me to say that I had yarn from an older supplier and that they’ve switched suppliers in the meantime because of quality issues. I’m impressed!

forgot to measure exact new starting weight…
After 2-1: {97.91g}
After 2-3: {96.93g}
After 2-4: {95.51g} 96.03g after restart
After 2-5: 93.61g
After 2-6: 90.82g
After 2-7: 87.60g
After 2-8: 84.70g
After 3-1: 80.29g
After 3-2: 75.48g
After 3-3: 70.07g
After 3-4: 64.18g
After 3-5: 58.12g
After 4: 51.53g
After 5: 43.00g
After 6, rows 1-8: 34.60g
After 6, rows 9-16: 23.11g
After 7: 21.31g
After BO as written: 14.65g

Beads: 60g to start with, 12 g at the end, used 48g