Going in circles

I had began the construction of the coif in my previous post.  All was going well until I reached row 5.  I had continued the construction of the coif with my idea of adding expansion rings in every row.  But by the time I got to row 5 things were starting to look a little off.  But I continued on.

After I finished row 6, I could see that something indeed had gone wrong.  The rings were not laying flat, they looked as if they were bunched together.

So I went back and took off the rings of row 6.  Then took out all of the expansion rings in row 5.  From there, I put the rings of row 6 back on.  Then continued to do an additional 2 rows with no expansion rings in those rows.

Now the rows look much more smooth, no bunching.  Here is a current picture.

This is 9 rows of rings.  My plan from here is to put expansion rings on row 9, and then add two rows with no expansion rings, and see how things go.  Worst case, I take the rings off.

On a side note, I had to make additional rings.  I had made five coils. 

By the time I had finished cutting all of the rings off my hand hurt, a lot.  I now have quite a few rings, and hope that I will not have to make more for a little while at least.