| 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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| 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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| 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.
Edit: Someone's got a nifty blanket using this tree here. |
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