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Thread created on 1339510110 by wodentoad.
Status: Open thread, open to all.
Okay, back on track, and have finished two new center triangles. They look neat and tidy now.
Hooray!
Okay, if you're wondering where I've been, I've gone ahead and tatted the centers of the nine ovals. Then I was going to post the first three ovals on the re-done Triangle 2, but, par for the course, I have re-done them again and am doing them yet again. The two ovals that connect to the center triangle and bottom oval have a different connection than the rest of their brothers. All of them seem to have the clovers at the corners connected to the first picot on the chains to either side, EXCEPT these. Additionally, they are not connected at the center picots at the center picot, but off center. This is driving me crazy. When these are finished, I'm going to use my 13mp, 1080p phone camera and take pictures and mark EVERY connection.
If anyone's good at drawing diagrams, I may have a request to make of you.
Oh my!!! I feel your pain..... and admire your persistence! 
Hope you don't have any such problems with the rest of it !
It's a really difficult issue, but I'm not going to give up. I'm determined to do this come zombie apocalypse or inland tsunami. My feeling being that it wasn't fair to the original tatter/designer, not fair to the many tatters who have tried and failed, and not fair to the future tatters who will look at it and dream.
I choose to finish this than do the other projects, not because it is easy, but because it is hard! --President Kennedy's tatting grandma
We are definitely feeling your pain right now. And admiring your tenacity. "Do the hard things" is actually a book title by Alex & Brett Harris. Subtitle - "A teenager's Rebellion Against Low Expectations". I gave a copy to my nephew when he was a 14 year old screwup, and he now says, at the ripe old age of 23 that it helped him a lot. So I have to admire your attitude, especially as it's always been mine. But all the problems you're having with this makes me wonder how on earth the first one ever got done, and if any more were ever tatted by anyone. It had to have been a committee effort. Nothing else but a committee could have possibly made it such a mess.
When we don't hear from you, we know you're hard at work, either tatting or thinking. I do think about you when you're not posting, if that does any good for your morale.
It does, so much. I think about you guys frequently, and often I pop in just to remind myself that other tatting does exist, and the tatters here do such amazing work. I also chase a toddler... a lot. Today, I attached the second oval for the fourth(?) time, turning my scanned copy of the full doily over and over, so I could compare every single join to each of the four triangles. I'm pretty sure this is not meant to be done by one person.
If you gaze long at the tea cloth, eventually, the tea cloth stares back. --Friedrich Nietzsche's tatting aunt
My dear Erin, you simply must get your head out of the philosophers! They are going to suffocate you.
To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star
This is my quest, to follow that star,
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far
To fight for the right without question or cause
To be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause
And I know if I'll only be true to this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm when I'm laid to my rest
Sorry, the lyrics just came to mind. 
And, unlike Don Quixote, you WILL get there! 
Two ovals left. I changed how I attached them to be more in line with the picture. I took a lot of time examining both sides of each of the four in the big photo.
Believe it or not, you inspire me to work harder on my cross stitch of all things! At least I don't have to reinvent the whole design before I can sew it. Your work continues to be amazing.
Okay, here is the first of four done. Connections are right in line with the photo.
Wow! That looks really good! SUCCESS! 
It looks like all your persistence has paid off!
Well done!!
Thanks, everyone! I am working on the next section already, but thankfully, I have the first to use as a guide now. This is the last time I'm redoing it. I think the groups of three are supposed to be attached, but I'm rolling with it as is just so I can get it done sometime before the NEXT centennial. It was only a couple of days ago that I realized how close I am to the outside. Touching it, in fact. So I'm moving forward.
The next piece after this is the last long border before the final surrounding medallions. I'm going to do it in reverse, because of the difficulties I've had counting. So instead of the part that surrounds the linen insertion, I'm going to join the eight triangular (well, pie shaped) pieces and then do the inner section of the border second.
I'm excited, but it's a slow burn excitement, because there's still a lot of work to be done.
I knew from the start you would finish. It's inspiring to watch your progress.
We need an emoji that does a bow for @wodentoad.
But meanwhile, here's another cheer!