I successfully finished the pattern for the Seal of Rassilon knitting pattern. I cast on for a test knit of it, in yarn I bought to make nice stuff for Teddy. I love knitting, but I can't wear acrylic and I can't afford wool, so hey! Look! A friend who can wear the cheap yarn! W00t!
Anyway, I'm just doing a quick version of it with a 4st moss stitch border and the patterning in purl/knit.
The "back" side
The "front" side
I already ran into two problems.
(1) I was expecting to have problems with the knit stitches being too "high", and making it stretch vertically. Instead, the knit stitches are too "wide" and it's stretched horizontally. Since my guess is that the scarf will be under more vertical than horizontal tension, this might be a good thing, but next time I'll knit it with slightly bigger needles. These are my size 3 needles, and they're just a hair small, I think. On the other hand, this means the scarf isn't three miles wide, which is probably a good thing.
(2) I wasn't paying enough attention, and I managed to do three stupid pattern things.
First, I didn't properly purl/knit in the other loop to untwist stitches where I switch stitch types in the first few rows, with the result that they're pulling even harder in the vertical direction. While this creates some neat effects---and now I think I know how to do horizontal cabling---it's not quite what I had in mind for this. On the other hand, once I went back to the "right" method, I'm having trouble with the knit stitches forming cabling-type rising stuff.
Second, I made the pattern off a PDF of the Seal, and I started reading it left-to-right while knitting right-to-left, with the end result that this end of the scarf will have a clockwise seal instead of an anticlockwise one. Doh!
And third... third, I can't count. 'nuff said.
But I think it looks pretty cool, even if there isn't much done on it yet.
Pictures were taken with my crappy webcam. But hey, at least you can see it's there, right?
1 comment:
Eeeksquee! *cackles maniacally, like the first Doctor being all Slytherin and high*
I sewn can haz skarf! It's soooo purty! And... timelordesque! I can wear it with my (nonexistent) wool coat, and be Romana II!
Don't worry if you don't hear anything from me until late afternoon tomorrow (Friday). Am totally buried. Fortunately, calc test is over. Now, physics! (homework and exam, plus proofs homework)
Now though, sleep...
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