Since I've finished one top (the tunic), I've been looking like mad at all sorts of other tops to make. I want to make a tank top. But almost all of the designs I see are almost-but-not-quite what I want to make. So I bit the bullet and am trying to design one of my own. I know what I want, and I think I can make the yarn do what I want it to. I just have to remember to write down what I'm doing!
The first photo is roughly what the table looks like when I'm trying to figure things out and keep track of them at the same time. The second photo is what I have done so far. And, I must say, so far so good. Hopefully I can keep it up. Except my brain keeps jumping ahead while my hands are working on the current segment. Which is all well and good, if you don't take into account my ability to hodge-podge nearly all attempts at multitasking, lateral thinking, working on more than one problem involving simple math and shaping at the same time.
So, needless to say, I'm scribbling things down on paper, typing them into the computer and mentally sketching what comes next. While trying to figure out my gauge at the same time. I'm too impatient to swatch. And since this project is off-the-cuff, I think I can be fairly certain that frogging and tinking will be involved at one point or another, though hopefully not too much.
This third photo is my attempt at an extreme close up to show how the shaping is showing up, but my camera and I are almost not on speaking terms (again) due to its stubborn refusal to take a semi-decent close up shot.
At least I'm not writing this pattern like I write revised recipes. I think if I did that, I'd have a 50/50 shot at amusing some of the people (assuming that someone else tries to decipher this) and offending the rest. Cross your fingers for me.
Oh, and did I mention that I'm working this in lace weight yarn?
3 comments:
Now I know my mind tends to run amok
but when I look at that picture all i see is thong lol.What ever happened to the candle flame one?Oh cool an orange egg .In the top pic on you note pad just below an right of you pen what is that?With my 3 days off 1 I've been lent out already. I have to work on my house but 1 day is 100% mine and at least 2 hours of it will be spent trying to knit.I mean sitting Indiana style on the floor,with Spud locked out,tongue hanging out headphones in.If i can't learn that way then I give up.here hoping your enjoying your down time.
Noe i steal an egg an run away.
You seem to have thongs on the brain...
The Candle Flame is hibernating.
The little square thingy on my notebook is my nifty stitch counter that Ames gifted me.
Wow new.... well new everything.I like it looks I don't know brighter
I went to Walden's to get a book or two for someone else but for some reason I ordered for myself two an bought Night Watch.
Do you know your new layout is more right handed friendly?
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