I’m pretty sure that I hit an aha! moment today. I’ve been knitting along on my Ishbel shawlette, but having consistent troubles with the edge and middle numbers.  One was too big, the other too little. Well, I think my problem was using markers between the edge and main patterns, expecting them to stay at the same count, but the edge stitches are always increasing, and the lace pattern still  isn’t appearing…

So I think that all I have to do is frog back to the beginning of the lace pattern  and omit the edge marker.

Right?