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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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| 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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| 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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| The Angband sweater |
[May. 2nd, 2005|09:21 am] |
I'm not quite finished, but since I am not good at self-portraits, I don't think it will really matter if I don't wait until I am.
So, I present: the Angband sweater.
( This image is not arachnophobe-safe. )
( This image is arachnophobe-safe. )
What I have learned:
- The thing with increases and decreases that's on the cuff really is the best way to arrange for a small non-flat-sided section of your knitting to be in reverse stockinette.
- Leaves should be at least seven rows high and should have more space around them. (Five-row leaves just look like blobs. Seven-row leaves actually look like leaves.)
- If most of the branches are two stitches thick, the roots should be too.
- If I do this again, I will move the tree up so that I can use four branches in the neck cables instead of two.
Chart is here. |
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