Mystery Stole 3 -- Swan Lake -- in the "Wing"

Clue 5 also has two charts. The 50 rows of Chart G went pretty fast, since it starts by working just a few stitches of the left-hand part of Clue 4. You add two stitches every 2 Right-Side rows, and decrease one of the leftover-stitches from Clue 4 every Wrong-Side row.

Here's progress after three evenings, more or less pinned out to see the curving "wing" halfway into Chart H, with 77 rows completed after Clue 4. There are still 58 stitches fom Clue 4 unworked, and all bunched up on the needle -- and 80 stitches on the "working" part of the needle for Clue 5. Melanie has us doing a different combo stitch where three stitches become one that is supposed to produce a better "line" -- and is, I think, supposed to be the spines on the feathers of the wing.

I think it's a little funny how the "Wings of the Swan" lace pattern which was on the outside edges of Clues 1 through 4 just suddenly end, but maybe there will be something in Clue 6 or Clue 7 which makes it make sense. That lace pattern was supposedly also used in MS1 "Leda's Dream", which I haven't made yet.

The floral-looking design in the main body (which was easier to see in the previous posts' pictures) is the traditional Shetland lace design "Cat's Paw". Melanie explained that in Swan Lake, one of the dances done by 4 "swan maidens" is the "Pas de Chat" step, which means "step of the cat", so she thought it made sense to include that in this pattern.