State of the Chain: April 1st

[janestarz]

Now that I've finally gotten over my initial fear of (raglan) sleeves, I'm continuing work on Project Elf Chain.



Since I most likely will not have enough of the rings for full raglan sleeves, I've decided to make it a sleeveless shirt for now. This means I can just make regular armscyes, and since I can now draft patterns myself, I have more basic know-how on how to make this than 'just weave it and we'll see where we will end up'.

So, start of the armscye. I made it too large initially, but I'm working on gettimg it the right size.

Calculations on number of rings and weight next time, as I'm away from home at the moment. That's also why there's not as much blingy html as I would have liked.

Even with the several month break I've had, I am confident I can finish the shirt in time for Drachenfest. It's even strange to think I started work on this some 13 months ago!

---Posted from my Android.

Comments

[absintheskiss.livejournal.com]

You have done so much! I would never have the patience myself, it will look so awesome when it's done. Where did you get the pattern from again for the chain work? I seem to remember it was from a book.

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

I think I got it from M.A.I.L. (http://www.mailleartisans.org/), they have a library of weaves.
I'm still amazed at my progress. I started this at the end of January of 2010 and I've had many breaks. It's not like I've been working on it every night for the last year!

Fun fact: Every row of 56 green rings (the wider rows of the body) takes about 40 minutes to assemble. This is done after all the preparation steps are complete (green rings closed, green-double gold-green chain prepared, gold rings opened) so in reality there's a lot more work for each row.
I mostly work while watching TV.