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Last winter Muse decided it would be fun to hand-knit accessories for all my larp characters. Lucky for me, I only have two larp characters and even more lucky is that there is some colour overlap between the two.
What sparked all of it was this sketch:
Whether it was the shape of the shawl or the width of each particular colour that echoed something inside me, I don't know. But I cut swatches from the fabrics of my dresses and hood so I could find the perfect yarn for the project.
After carrying around the swatches and sketch in my backpack the sketch is a little worse for wear. It's really a two-minute effort, as you can see. But it made my Muse bounce, so that's something.
These are all three items of the costume with the corresponding yarn. The main colour is the lightest blue of the underdress, the red is just the right colour of the Apple overdress, and the dark blue for the bottom strip of the shawl matches the hood quite well. The yarn is beautiful Cascade 220, which blocks beautifully and knits quite fast.
I worked on the shawl before Emphebion and during the event, and now I'm taking a little break. This project has given me a few headaches - especially when it came to the actual pattern of the thing! But now I'm stuck on the next question: how tall does each band of colour become?
This yarn is pretty expensive, so I can't keep throwing money at the thing when I run out of yarn, but there is a certain balance between the colours in my sketch. The red is about ½ to ⅔ of the bottom blue, I think. But I can only calculate how tall they are when I know the full length at centre-back. And because each row is longer than the next, I can't calculate how many skeins I will need. I can only say "knit the next piece until x cm tall" and hope I don't run out of yarn and it doesn't block to twice its size.
What helped me prevent yet another impasse was this blog post from Blij-dat-ik-Brei, featuring a shawl knit in similar weight yarn and has the exact amount of snuggly I am looking for! So I can easily meausure how far nape-of-neck to just below my ass is for me (prolly somewhere near 90 centimeters!) and work from there.
In the mean time I am working on making the Sock Madness socks to size. At the start of the week I ripped out the toes of the Mod Madness socks and re-knit them to fit WannabeKat's feet, which was just one evening's work. With some difficulty I also frogged the largest sock of the Dropping Madness socks (I knit one M and one L sock to see which would fit HowlingMoon better). I've started re-knitting the second sock but in the smaller size now. It's funny to see how muscle memory works, my fingers sort of remember the pattern but I needed a little nudge from the pattern for the details. I expect this to be less than a week's work.
And after that....maybe I'll finally finish my Bodemloos sweater. I can feel autumn fast approaching and I've been eyeing my Ravelry queue. At the top of my queue are large projects that I've already purchased yarn for and are ready to go (I've even got a crochet project quite high up in there!). Then follow the sock patterns, for when I don't feel like a large project but I need a quick and easy or interesting distraction. A quick stash-dive should supply the yarn. But I've already printed out a fair number of simple sock patterns and made little bags ready to go as well. The socks in the queue are mostly a divider between the "I will knit this" and the "I might want to knit this" because at the bottom of the queue are all the wild plans. A few glove and mittens patterns that got Muse's knickers in a twist earlier this week. A legwarmer pattern that fits calves half my size but she refuses to let go of. An interesting top that is knit in one piece and might not even work for my wonky shoulder. In short: all the things I don't have yarn for and might never get around to and need a lot of thinking and planning before going into a Local Yarn Shop and going to the top of the list.
So first up:
Socks for Howling Moon
Finishing Bodemloos
Intermittent shawl knitting
The Hubband Socks (easy take-along project)
And then:
Maybe the tree trunk legwarmers for Zaphira and Windsong (overlap! Yay!).
Maybe the intricate bright pink Batik shawl to go with my winter coat.
Or the Bagtanke vest that will really be nice to have in Autumn.
We'll see!
What sparked all of it was this sketch:
Whether it was the shape of the shawl or the width of each particular colour that echoed something inside me, I don't know. But I cut swatches from the fabrics of my dresses and hood so I could find the perfect yarn for the project.
After carrying around the swatches and sketch in my backpack the sketch is a little worse for wear. It's really a two-minute effort, as you can see. But it made my Muse bounce, so that's something.
These are all three items of the costume with the corresponding yarn. The main colour is the lightest blue of the underdress, the red is just the right colour of the Apple overdress, and the dark blue for the bottom strip of the shawl matches the hood quite well. The yarn is beautiful Cascade 220, which blocks beautifully and knits quite fast.
I worked on the shawl before Emphebion and during the event, and now I'm taking a little break. This project has given me a few headaches - especially when it came to the actual pattern of the thing! But now I'm stuck on the next question: how tall does each band of colour become?
This yarn is pretty expensive, so I can't keep throwing money at the thing when I run out of yarn, but there is a certain balance between the colours in my sketch. The red is about ½ to ⅔ of the bottom blue, I think. But I can only calculate how tall they are when I know the full length at centre-back. And because each row is longer than the next, I can't calculate how many skeins I will need. I can only say "knit the next piece until x cm tall" and hope I don't run out of yarn and it doesn't block to twice its size.
What helped me prevent yet another impasse was this blog post from Blij-dat-ik-Brei, featuring a shawl knit in similar weight yarn and has the exact amount of snuggly I am looking for! So I can easily meausure how far nape-of-neck to just below my ass is for me (prolly somewhere near 90 centimeters!) and work from there.
In the mean time I am working on making the Sock Madness socks to size. At the start of the week I ripped out the toes of the Mod Madness socks and re-knit them to fit WannabeKat's feet, which was just one evening's work. With some difficulty I also frogged the largest sock of the Dropping Madness socks (I knit one M and one L sock to see which would fit HowlingMoon better). I've started re-knitting the second sock but in the smaller size now. It's funny to see how muscle memory works, my fingers sort of remember the pattern but I needed a little nudge from the pattern for the details. I expect this to be less than a week's work.
And after that....maybe I'll finally finish my Bodemloos sweater. I can feel autumn fast approaching and I've been eyeing my Ravelry queue. At the top of my queue are large projects that I've already purchased yarn for and are ready to go (I've even got a crochet project quite high up in there!). Then follow the sock patterns, for when I don't feel like a large project but I need a quick and easy or interesting distraction. A quick stash-dive should supply the yarn. But I've already printed out a fair number of simple sock patterns and made little bags ready to go as well. The socks in the queue are mostly a divider between the "I will knit this" and the "I might want to knit this" because at the bottom of the queue are all the wild plans. A few glove and mittens patterns that got Muse's knickers in a twist earlier this week. A legwarmer pattern that fits calves half my size but she refuses to let go of. An interesting top that is knit in one piece and might not even work for my wonky shoulder. In short: all the things I don't have yarn for and might never get around to and need a lot of thinking and planning before going into a Local Yarn Shop and going to the top of the list.
So first up:
And then:
We'll see!
