Grandpa's scarf, a work in progress
Monday, December 21st, 2009 03:35 amSince last time I took pics, I've taken apart what I'd done of grandpa's scarf and knit it with smaller needles to get a tighter cloth.
This is what it looked like yesterday:
( progress 12-19 )
This is what it looked like earlier today:
( progress 12-20 )
I've since added about two more inches of white (which looks pale tan on its own, but appears white in the scarf when laid against the dark brown).
It is somewhat scary to be working without a pattern. For instance, I have absolutely no idea how many rows I knit for that first stretch of brown; I went with "a bit taller than it is wide". If I could redo it, knowing how much brown yarn I'd have left over, I would add another two inches or so.
Then it's your basic Fibonacci sequence for the light (1-1-2-3-5-8-13). I flailed through the striping, but I managed to figure out something that works better in the later stripes for bringing yarn of the other color up the side of the current color stripe. I incremented the number of rows by one for each dark stripe (1-2-3-4-5-6-7). It hardly makes a difference in the earlier ones! It's only kinda obvious from the second to the last *g*
It actually looks a bit better in the photo than IRL -- the inconsistencies are not so obvious, but I do feel proud of what I have so far. Even if it's not perfect (eeek)
OH, oh, I was trying to aim for a lucky number in Chinese blah blah, so I made the scarf 7 inches wide, and did seven dark brown stripes, seven elements of the fib sequence, etc. I misremembered the lucky number though -- I should have been using 8 instead *facepalm* But it turns out for the best, because I think that an 8-inch-wide scarf would have been too wide; I wouldn't have had enough yarn to get things to a decent length.
Decent length, I haven't decided what to aim for, but grandpa is about 5'6", so I guess I'll try to aim for a scarf as tall as he is, give or take half a foot (in case I don't have enough yarn /o\)
So right now, I'm just using up the last of this ball of light yarn on the long stretch of center white, and then I'll measure. If it's long enough, then I'll use the second ball of light yarn and mirror the current pattern. If it's too short, I'll probably end up adding a strip of dark brown in the very center. Not sure how I feel about that, though it would at least make the stripes eight instead of seven. Hmm. Anyway, I'll decide once I'm done with this light yarn.
Have I mentioned how intimidating it is to work without a pattern and with no way to get additional yarn in case I run out? Because it is! (eek)
(Posting because I promised![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
aveleh pics!)
(I am very lucky my grandpa loves me and will forgive me any flaws in the scarf. AHAHHAHAA)
This is what it looked like yesterday:
( progress 12-19 )
This is what it looked like earlier today:
( progress 12-20 )
I've since added about two more inches of white (which looks pale tan on its own, but appears white in the scarf when laid against the dark brown).
It is somewhat scary to be working without a pattern. For instance, I have absolutely no idea how many rows I knit for that first stretch of brown; I went with "a bit taller than it is wide". If I could redo it, knowing how much brown yarn I'd have left over, I would add another two inches or so.
Then it's your basic Fibonacci sequence for the light (1-1-2-3-5-8-13). I flailed through the striping, but I managed to figure out something that works better in the later stripes for bringing yarn of the other color up the side of the current color stripe. I incremented the number of rows by one for each dark stripe (1-2-3-4-5-6-7). It hardly makes a difference in the earlier ones! It's only kinda obvious from the second to the last *g*
It actually looks a bit better in the photo than IRL -- the inconsistencies are not so obvious, but I do feel proud of what I have so far. Even if it's not perfect (eeek)
OH, oh, I was trying to aim for a lucky number in Chinese blah blah, so I made the scarf 7 inches wide, and did seven dark brown stripes, seven elements of the fib sequence, etc. I misremembered the lucky number though -- I should have been using 8 instead *facepalm* But it turns out for the best, because I think that an 8-inch-wide scarf would have been too wide; I wouldn't have had enough yarn to get things to a decent length.
Decent length, I haven't decided what to aim for, but grandpa is about 5'6", so I guess I'll try to aim for a scarf as tall as he is, give or take half a foot (in case I don't have enough yarn /o\)
So right now, I'm just using up the last of this ball of light yarn on the long stretch of center white, and then I'll measure. If it's long enough, then I'll use the second ball of light yarn and mirror the current pattern. If it's too short, I'll probably end up adding a strip of dark brown in the very center. Not sure how I feel about that, though it would at least make the stripes eight instead of seven. Hmm. Anyway, I'll decide once I'm done with this light yarn.
Have I mentioned how intimidating it is to work without a pattern and with no way to get additional yarn in case I run out? Because it is! (eek)
(Posting because I promised
aveleh pics!)(I am very lucky my grandpa loves me and will forgive me any flaws in the scarf. AHAHHAHAA)
