progress?

despite taking lunch off yesterday to check out the awesome surreal things exhibit at the ago, i feel like i am making progress with the super-secret father's day project... although my tension seems to be changing now that i've got the hang of the pattern and i am no longer worried about things being too big, now i am worried that i will not have two the same. i am telling myself that the tension change will function as "shaping" and make it fit better, but how will i replicate that for part 2? sigh. there is no winning, i'm afraid.