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[Feb. 19th, 2008|08:51 am] |
So, now that my Internet is working again, I'm going to post something I made a while ago, but somehow never got around to posting.
( Baa ) |
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[Nov. 4th, 2006|11:45 am] |
Lately I've mostly been knitting utterly boring things: plain socks, some plain handwarmers, and a plain sleeve for a sweater in green Malabrigo, a yarn so variegated I cannot do any cabling. Maybe I'll put a lace leaf somewhere or something. While this is fun knitting I can do while reading, it's not something I feel excited enough about to actually do blog posts about.
I have done a little bit of design work recently:
( Treble clef ) |
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| I am such a nerd. |
[Jun. 19th, 2006|06:25 pm] |
I've been meaning to do this for a while now, and I was in Georgia for a wedding with nothing better to knit, so I present:
( Tengwar ) |
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| Faramir's final pictures |
[Jun. 13th, 2006|02:22 pm] |
So I finally found some pictures I took of my completed Tolkein sweater:
( Finished pictures )
I am most disappointed with the photo quality, but I don't think that I can get better ones at the moment. This will teach me to photograph things in artificial light.
The tree on the front is taken from Faramir's jacket, with roots based on the tree on Arwen's coronation banner.
The runes on the back are from or based on the ones in Elsebeth Lavold's Viking Patterns for Knitting; they spell out "Im Ariel hain echant", which is Sindarin for "I, Ariel, made them." When I started designing, I thought that it meant "I Ariel made this". It's probably fine as it is, though. |
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| What came of pooling and Pomatomi |
[Jun. 4th, 2006|10:22 am] |
Well, I did make a Pomatomus in Spinel: ( Read more... )
I'm not sure what I think of this. I think it fits about right once I've got it *on*, but it's a struggle to get my heel through the leg. This is the problem with stitch patterns designed to be worn somewhat stretched: they don't have as much stretch beyond the size of a leg as stockinette or ribbing. Also, I think I may have made it a bit too long.
If I do decide I can live with the fight to get it on, I probably won't make a second one for months. See, I have a fair amount of stuff I actually want to finish soon, and I don't really need wool socks until September at the earliest.
Oh, and: if you were wondering what became of the pooling Lapis, it has become a ( plain sock ) |
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| June goals |
[Jun. 4th, 2006|10:16 am] |
Recall my May goals:
- Finish Ed's sweater. ( Not done. )
- Do some sort of original design work. Not done. Not even started.
Ah well.
June goals:
- Finish Ed's sweater by June 17. I know this is the third time I've said this, but I think, even at this rate, I'll actually achieve it this time.
- Get enough of a start on a sweater & hood for my mother that I believe I can finish it by July 12.
- Secret projects that shall not be blogged, because they are Knitty submissions and/or presents for people who read this.
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| Socks that Rock & pooling |
[May. 4th, 2006|07:05 pm] |
I have four skeins of Socks that Rock: three in fairly heavily variegated colorways, and one of their nearly solids.
I have wanted to make Pomatomi for a while, and I think that the STR knits up to about the right gauge.
I tried knitting the Lapis into Pomatomi. However, I think that 72 stitches is just about precisely the wrong number of stitches to use with this yarn:
( Behold the flashing! )
This colorway does not take well to flashing. There's a lot of very meh blue-gray in it. If the yarn wasn't flashing, this would probably be a good thing, to keep it from looking too busy, but as it is, it's just producing an ugly spot.
Also, I don't like the way the green and blue are forming rows of alternating stripes.
So I think I will frog this and use the Lapis for some other sock pattern, one with fewer stitches. (This will still fit my feet; Pomatomus has a zigzaggy pattern which means that I need more stitches to make socks of the same circumference.) Here's a sock in a different colorway of the same yarn:
( Queen Rock socks on 60 stitches )
I think 60 stitches is just a wee bit too tight for my feet, but I bet 64 stitches would look fine. |
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[May. 1st, 2006|06:07 pm] |
Recall my April goals:
- Sweater for Ed. ( Not done )
- Very small teddy bear. Done.
- Socks! Not really done. I've got parts of at least two pairs worked up, but nothing I feel like showing off.
May goals:
- Finish Ed's sweater. This time for sure!
- Do some sort of original design work. I've got two distinct ideas of what this could be. One idea is: more dragons. The other idea is: knitted snarks.
It was pointed out (in a community I read) that the Szekeres snark would look really cool as a cables-and-bobbles pattern. I'm probably going to start simpler, with the flower snark. (To my surprise, although the Petersen Graph is the simplest snark, and has a lot of different ways of being drawn, none of them lend themselves particularly well to being knitted. This is really too bad, as the Petersen graph is probably the most famous single graph in graph theory, and is further cool because it is the smallest counterexample to everything.)
Of course, if I don't get around to knitting snarks, I can always make a ( quick snark )
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| Excessive smallness |
[Apr. 8th, 2006|08:47 am] |
A few weeks ago, Clopen (one of the characters in a D&D campaign) got killed. Since we have a druid instead of a cleric, she got reincarnated, and came out as a bear.
Before that, she was a human female just like Sand (my character). Another player had a bunch of miniatures. Sand's miniature had a tendency to tip over, so I decided that I wanted to use Clopen's miniature.
So I made Clopen a new miniature.
( A bear, of course. )
(Cross-posted to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) gamers_knit.) |
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| March and April goals |
[Apr. 2nd, 2006|11:01 am] |
So how about that one-journal-entry-a-month thing?
Recall my March goals:
- Finish Mandy's sweater. This will be Eris. ( Done! )
- Swatching and photography for article. ( Maybe done? )
April goals:
- Sweater for Ed. I'm not sure quite what this will be. Something also green and also with cables. I may just go with a raglan sweater with a few cables thrown on it; it won't be the first time.
- Very small teddy bear. I do have 1.5mm needles, and laceweight alpaca, lying about. I also ordered some smaller needles from Lacis, so I might use those instead.
- Socks!
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| February and March goals |
[Mar. 3rd, 2006|03:50 pm] |
February goals:
- Finish Peacock Feathers - Done.
- Dragon lace swatch - ( Done )
- Make a hood for a friend who requested one - ( Done )
- Do the swatching, photography, and final rewriting for an article I'm writing for (I hope) Knitty - not done
- Obtain all measurements and project ideas for longer-term projects - done with 3/4.
- Update this a bit more often - not done. Sooo not done.
So...4/6. Not bad. Not great, either.
For March, I'm going to keep it to two goals:
- Finish Mandy's sweater. This will be Eris, pullover version, in Andean Silk in Leaf. I've just gotten a few rows past the end of the collar:
( It looks like this. )
- Swatching and photography for article. This time for sure!
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| Peacock Feathers |
[Feb. 7th, 2006|09:59 pm] |
( Final picture )
Pattern: Peacock Feathers
Yarn: KnitPicks Shimmer in Maple Leaf, a tad bit over 2 skeins
Modifications: I messed with the decreases a lot, did one of the garter borders in purl instead of knit, and twisted some stitches; for more details, see this entry
or this entry.
Notes: I think that the Maple Leaf has too much value differences to be particularly well suited for any complicated lace. The shawl looks fine over things that are either a lot lighter than the yellow or a lot darker than the red and brown, but the lace pattern vanishes over anything else. I own a white dress and a black dress, so I think I'll manage, but this is not ideal.
I am not a great photographer. I can't seem to get really accurate colors. |
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| Peacock Feathers |
[Jan. 22nd, 2006|10:48 am] |
Here are a couple of closeups of my Peacock Feathers. I started this just before Winter Break, so around Dec. 10.
I didn't work on it that much over winter break, though. First, I had to finish up Faramir. Second, I had to make a scarf for my aunt, who I pulled in my family's Secret-Santa-like thing. The scarf was Liesel (warning: PDF file), made of one ball of Dale Baby Ull on 8s. I didn't take any pictures at all. I did take pictures of the completed Faramir...which came out horribly, blurry and discolored, so I won't post them. Sorry.
( Pictures! )
I'm making it out of Knitpicks Shimmer in Maple leaf. I'm currently in the middle of Row 194, which means that I'm about 60% of the way done.
This thing is surprisingly hard to photograph. I took lots of pictures yesterday, and almost all of them were either (a) blurry or (b) discolored. So you get these pictures. I'm sorry they're all different sizes.
In this post, I talked about three minor changes I've made. I could not get a good picture of the garter-stitch edging. So you'll just have to trust me: in variegated yarn, the garter-stitch borders have a very definite good and bad side, and doing the right edge in purl-stitch garter makes all the good sides show up on the right side.
You should be able to see the other changes I talked about earlier in the top photo.
I've made two more changes since starting Chart 6. They're shown in the bottom pictures. First, I left out some YO holes: they didn't seem that important to me, and were placed in such a way that I knew the asymmetry was going to bother me.
Second, when working "YO, knit, YO", especially if the knit is directly above a previous YO, the knit stitch stretches out and looks bad. I've found that if I twist it, it looks better. (This is the change highlighted on the right.) |
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| Klein bottles |
[Dec. 19th, 2005|10:02 am] |
These are my stuffed Klein bottles. They're what you get if you sew together two Möbius strips along their edges. In four dimensions, you can do this, but in three-dimensional space, you have to make the Möbius strips pass through themselves and each other.
( Read more... ) |
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| Hat |
[Nov. 6th, 2005|12:30 pm] |
Here's Bobert's Christmas present:
( Jayne hat )
It's made of Knitpicks Merino Style, which I quite like the feel of, held doubled. It used exactly one skein of the orange ("Butternut"), a bit less than one skein of yellow ("Harvest"), and about half a skein of red ("Hollyberry", although that's a bit too purple.)
I was trying to make it use up all the yellow, but it didn't quite work: I had enough left over for about another round and a half on the main part of the hat. I have to conclude that
(1) I made an error in counting rows,
(2) I miscalculated the number of stitches in the crown, (both of which seem unlikely),
(3) The cast-on took up a lot more of the orange yarn than I guessed (I guessed "half a regular round", which is probably too little, but underestimating meant I had yellow left over rather than running out),
(4) My gauge tightened a bit in the yellow, causing me to use fewer inches of yarn per round, or
(5) The skein of yellow had a few more yards than the skein of orange. This is plausible, especially as orange is darker than yellow, and dye does have weight.
Edit: I've also been working on sleeves for Faramir. Some of my friends think ( this ) looks surreal. |
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| It's been a while |
[Oct. 29th, 2005|09:46 am] |
So you all get to see pictures of WIPs.
( Christmas present for my dad )( Lace. Probably a Christmas present for someone. )
More pattern information is in my next-most-recent post.
This has been most of what I've been knitting for the past three weeks. (I've also made part of a pair of utterly boring socks, which aren't worth posting pictures of.)
A note to those of you who read this journal with Bloglines: I often go back and edit old entries. Usually, the edits aren't worth reading. If you haven't done so already, you probably want to edit your subscription and set "Updated Items" to "Ignore" rather than "Display as New".
Sometime soon I should get around to making my little brother's Christmas present; I expect it to go quickly. It will probably not of interest to most of you other knitters out there, although I expect people like Miranda and Mary will be amused. |
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| Blue socks |
[Aug. 22nd, 2005|07:13 pm] |
These are more or less the first socks I've made that I felt were worth posting here. (The rest have been the basic "stockinette-and-ribbing" kind, sometimes with stripes.)
( Socks with mini-cables! ) |
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| Penguin |
[Jan. 4th, 2005|10:19 pm] |
Pasha from Knitty
( Pictures )
I got all the knitting for this guy done in a day. Three movies or so, I believe. The seaming got done the next morning.
Yarns used: Schachenmayr Extra (100% wool) in yellow, Dale of Norway Svale (50% cotton, 40% viscose, 10% silk) in white and purple. I used less (but not a lot less) than half a skein (50 grams/104 meters) of white and purple, and not much yellow at all. I also used 2.75mm needles. |
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| Dragon! |
[Jul. 21st, 2004|07:43 am] |
It's finally done!
The notes I took while making this are in this entry.
( Pictures of a winged snake )
Made of DMC #20 Cebelia, and about three tubes of #11 seed beads, plus some wire and stuffing. |
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[Dec. 6th, 2003|07:27 pm] |
( Snowflakes! )
Made with a 0.4mm steel hook from Lacis and DMC #80 tatting thread.
I need to start blocking these with sewing pins. Currently, I'm using big steel T-pins, which are probably convenient for snowflakes made of #10 thread, but which just cause too much distortion with itty bitty thread work. |
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