Finished Seabird

[firstfrost]

This is a neat project. I hadn't done any swing knitting before (that's the term coined for essentially using trapezoids of short rows to make those curving shapes, and pairing up short rows on one side with short rows on the other to make it all work out smoothly). It also introduced me to the German short row, which is a weird little trick at the turn that avoids wrapping or picking up or anything other than pulling the first turned stitch over and extra-tight. (That explanation will make no sense, but there are youtube videos of it for those who knit).

The instructions were kind of incomprehensible for the first "feather", because they kept referring forward to things that I hadn't done yet, and because I didn't understand swing knitting, but things like "You won't put in any light pins here, because they're cancelling out the imaginary dark pins from later" eventually did make sense.

For mathhobbit.

Comments

[mathhobbit.livejournal.com]

Woot!

[desireearmfeldt]

Cool!

[izmirian.livejournal.com]

That's very pretty.

[kelkyag]

Shiny! That's a very nifty pattern.

[tallou.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous!

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Oh, how nifty. I wonder if I can figure out how to do that with crochet.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Two rows of crochet is (I think?) a lot taller than two rows of garter stitch, so the stairsteps might be a lot more obvious. It looks like short rows in Tunisian crochet is a thing, where you'd only have one row offset at a time.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

That's roughly what I was thinking. Are you using lace weight yarn?

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

It's actually fingering weight, though this particular pattern seems to have people using all sorts of different weights

[kelkyag]

Two rows of crochet is (I think?) a lot taller than two rows of garter stitch

Yes (assuming single crochet rather than slip stitch), though if the pattern can be arranged to have an continuous row along the edge of each colored section, that might be enough to disguise the steps. Or it may be possible to adapt differently for crochet and use stitches of varying heights (but that's harder pattern translation problem).