Doily finally finished

I finally finished the Jan Stawasz doily XII.  I'm very happy with how it turned out.  Not a single mistake.

 This is just one motif of the doily.  There are like 8 or 9 of these motifs tatted together to make a much larger doily.  But I know my limits.  There is no way I would have the patience to finish the entire doily.  Maybe at some future time when the kids are grown and the housework gets done by itself, I will have time to complete an entire Stawasz doily.  But for now, I am more than happy with this scaled down version. It measures about 7 inches across in size 20 Lizbeth white. Paradoxically, I tend to make fewer mistakes on a more complicated pattern than on a very simple one.  The split ring American flag pictured here was very repetitious and simple and I made several mistakes.  I think I just lose my concentration.  I certainly didn't lose my concentration on this doily.  Every picot had to be measured to perfection.  The pattern was not overly complicated, just a lot of little details to get right.