An epiphany!

<cue Lone Ranger music>

I no sooner post my troubles with my triples (hee hee) on this blog and on Ravelry, but then my cousin Jody rides in (well, calls on the phone) and saves the day! Hooray!

Sometimes I am so one-dimensional in my thinking I scare myself. I couldn't get past the "single crochet in the slip stitch in front center of triple picot." All I could think was that this would be working "on top" of the picots and would hide them.

Uh...duh. We can always flip the silly thing upside down, right? That way, the Row 4 stitches, instead of covering up the previous row, would appear to be coming out from under the previous row! Yay!

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Jody! You had just the answer I needed! I'll post again with photos when I get it done. xoxo

(BTW, Jody is an expert knitter and crocheter herself and has a great blog of her own: http://chickswithsticksofglenmontny.blogspot.com/2012/03/spring.html?spref=fb)

And thank you also to kaycrochet from Ravelry who echoed Jody's idea just moments after I got the phone call.

I appreciate you ladies so much!