Corrections

A round that will not add up

Every count on this site is checked by machine, round against round, before it is published — and that is the only check these patterns have had, because nobody has crocheted them. If a round does not work on the hook, the round number is the one thing that makes the fault findable. Write that down.

There is nowhere to send it yet

This site has no address taking reports at the moment, so the box that would carry one is not on this page. What a report needs does not change: the pattern, the piece, the round number, the count the page gives and the count you got.

Note them against the round while you have it in front of you — a count reconstructed afterwards is weaker evidence than one taken at the row. They are worth keeping whether or not anything is open to receive them.

What happens to it

The round goes back through the same validator the pattern passed, with your count beside it. If the chain is wrong the pattern is corrected, the checks are re-run, and the date those checks carry on its page moves.

A fault in one pattern may be a fault in whatever drafted it, in which case it is sitting in others too. That is why a report naming a round is worth more than the round: it is what turns one broken piece into a rule that can be run over all of them.

When there is somewhere to send one, what comes in gets published — the report, the round it names, and what came of it.There is no error rate on this page until there is one to count.

Not a count?

A report is worth writing for anything else that is wrong on a page: a finished size that cannot be right, a name that promises a texture single crochet cannot make, a piece that closes on a hole nothing shuts.

The pictures are worth naming on their own. They are rendered from the stitch counts, never photographed, and nothing has yet compared one against the pattern it came from — so a render showing a piece the rounds do not make is a fault worth reporting and one the checks cannot see.

Why a report is worth anything

The gate that publishes a pattern has 8 stages and 6 of them ran on all 113. The rest are listed below, in the words each record carries. No check here can tell you how a pattern behaves in the hand. Only somebody with it on a hook can.

The 2 that could not run
  • 4 render matches the pattern — no image has been compared against its own prompt, so a render showing a piece the rounds do not make would not be caught here. Nothing has counted how many do.
  • 6a recognisability — provenance.recognisability is empty in every pattern, so there is no feature list to check the parts against.