More Swatches
Jul. 12th, 2010 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tephraContinuing on from my last post on the subject....
The swatch with the things that bugged me from last time removed:
As you can see, the netting now starts after all the body of the "blossom" part is finished and it looks much neater. I've also taken out the double "stem" and removed the spine stitch sooner.
Then I had to test the next bit of the chart. Since I'm limited in size by the amount of yarn I'm willing to commit to a swatch I tore out the old one and started again further along in the chart:
I added some increases along the edges in the netting section to build up to the chevron. Somewhere along the way my chevron ended up a few stitches wider than the original so there is one more diamond along the sides and a few more rows getting to the peak. It all worked out so I'm not going to worry about it, even if I do end up going WTF about the whole thing. You can also see the start of the final motif forming between the chevron points, and how the edge of the final shawl will be scalloped.
However, the chevron looks a bit heavy, visually. I know it's partly an artifact of the large scale of the yarn and needles but I'm still kinda concerned about it. So I may make a copy of my chart and modify it (actually, I've been doing this all along, the above swatch was knit using chart version 5).
I think I can make a boundary along the aqua line there, decreasing the netting to points and starting the final leaf motif at that stage, cutting out the chevrons entirely. My main concern there is that the way to follow that line involves lots of double decreases and that it might not be stretchy enough in comparison to the netting.
Alternately, I could keep the net-to-chevron boundary as it is and skip the diamonds and chevron to go direct to the leaves.
On the writing front, Dr. Daniel Samson-Greer has been a bit talkative. I have a bit of backstory on him, some of it still rather hand-wavingly vague, but he's coming along well enough I think I'll make him the last character in that meme. So once I bash out a mini-bio and pull names out of the metaphorical hat to establish the order I'll get onto those questions.
The swatch with the things that bugged me from last time removed:
As you can see, the netting now starts after all the body of the "blossom" part is finished and it looks much neater. I've also taken out the double "stem" and removed the spine stitch sooner.
Then I had to test the next bit of the chart. Since I'm limited in size by the amount of yarn I'm willing to commit to a swatch I tore out the old one and started again further along in the chart:
I added some increases along the edges in the netting section to build up to the chevron. Somewhere along the way my chevron ended up a few stitches wider than the original so there is one more diamond along the sides and a few more rows getting to the peak. It all worked out so I'm not going to worry about it, even if I do end up going WTF about the whole thing. You can also see the start of the final motif forming between the chevron points, and how the edge of the final shawl will be scalloped.
However, the chevron looks a bit heavy, visually. I know it's partly an artifact of the large scale of the yarn and needles but I'm still kinda concerned about it. So I may make a copy of my chart and modify it (actually, I've been doing this all along, the above swatch was knit using chart version 5).
I think I can make a boundary along the aqua line there, decreasing the netting to points and starting the final leaf motif at that stage, cutting out the chevrons entirely. My main concern there is that the way to follow that line involves lots of double decreases and that it might not be stretchy enough in comparison to the netting.
Alternately, I could keep the net-to-chevron boundary as it is and skip the diamonds and chevron to go direct to the leaves.
On the writing front, Dr. Daniel Samson-Greer has been a bit talkative. I have a bit of backstory on him, some of it still rather hand-wavingly vague, but he's coming along well enough I think I'll make him the last character in that meme. So once I bash out a mini-bio and pull names out of the metaphorical hat to establish the order I'll get onto those questions.
