Pattern Notes: If I was going to make this again I would:
On the central runner --

1. Use a provisional cast on
2. Slip the first stitch of every row including the WS purl rows; knit the last stitch of RS row and purl last stitch of WS row
3. Repeat Rows 9-16 until reach a total of 34 complete diamonds
4. Omit WS row 288 and start picking up stitches
5. Pick up and knit 140 stitches along each long side. These should be redistributed on the needles by moving the first 2 stitches and the last two stitches on the short sides so there are 8 stitches on each short side and 144 stitches on each long side.
6. Row 9a ~ I would omit the double YO for a single YO and on the next row simply K1,P1 in the YO on the short sides so the holes are about the same size.
7. Error Beginning on Row 11 ~ the pattern says to repeat 39 times, this should read 27 times ~ total of 28 pattern repeats. (The mesh rounds are an 8 stitch repeat, but the leaves are a 12 stitch repeat)
8. Error Row 45 ~ the pattern has a K2tog that should be changed to a SK2togP
9. Row 57 ~ I would change the YO 6x to YO 3x and then do K1,P1 X 4 in the triple YO on the following row. I personally don’t care for the huge hole in the peacock’s eye of the original pattern instructions

I started dry blocking just to get an idea of how big it would be, and this will take a lot of time. Not sure if I like the really huge peacock’s eye--I’ve always made them with 2-3 YO not 6! I also altered the crocheted bind off to have more loops around the “eye”.

Will have to wait to wet block it when I have more time to devote to the task.

Link to Cut Open Work page

post to prove when I bought the thread and started project