With some help, I changed the pattern a little bit, instead of increasing to 6 leaves, I increased to 12 leaves. For the straight section I did 8 leaves instead of 10 leaves. Lastly for the decrease section I did 12 leaves to mirror the increase section. The yarn is variegated and each skein is dyed slightly different even though they are in the same dye lot. I used 3 whole skeins and maybe 1/4 of the last skein.