I think I've managed to sort out the problem I was having with the increases! tl;dr: houndstooth stitch is Obnoxious and wants you to do 3 stitches in one colour and 1 stitch in a second colour, which means that adding in an extra stitch can throw the whole thing right out of balance if you're not careful about where you place that new stitch. Putting the make-one increase at the start of the 3-stitch set means that I can fold the increase in where it'll go unnoticed (because there's supposed to be more than one stitch of the same colour there) and it means that I can pretty easily add in as many increases as I need to. (On the other hand: adding in more than one increase close together seems to still make the whole stitch pattern go wonky, but ideally I won't need to put two increases near each other. Ideally.)
Frogged it back to the first set of the pattern, and the increase is slightly weird in how it interacts with the pattern, but it sorta looks like I might have dropped a stitch somewhere. If I really, really have to, I can probably do a round where it's just one colour or even frog back to the start of the pattern (instead of where the increase row starts) and sort it out that way.
I'm trying to make Eridan's scarf for my partner—help? so far the advice I've gotten is: - make it a tube scarf - in stockinette stitch - maybe use this yarn: http://www.knitpicks.com/yarns/CotLin_DK_Yarn__D5420162.html • (unsure about colors for this yarn, current suggestions are hydrangea/rocket or rocket/rainstorm) seriously, though, I'm bad at color choices and deciding how to do Fandom Things
Looking up Eridan's scarf for visual references, and it looks more like a dark blue/lighter blue striping to me? With both of them being on the darker end of the scale, but lighter than his pants. So hydrangea/raindrop could definitely work, or if you want to go with darker shades of blue, nightfall/planetarium could also work. I'm not sure that I'd go with rocket, since that's a grey which has blue undertones rather than being a blue colourway in its own right.
@turtleDove thank you!! I'm going to run the color combo options by my partner to see what they'd prefer
I'm trying to make a lolita dress (actually a skirt and vest) and have an idea of a pattern already drawn up. What I need to know is what kind of fabric to make it out of. Most of what I've made before has been LARPing clothes, and my usual go-tos are cotton, mid-weight linen, and whatever's cheap and fun on sale for goofy stuff.
that's a pretty good general idea for this too! A lot of Lolita dresses are cotton or cotton blends, ime, unless there's a specific texture you are going for, which i don't generally recommend for your first time working in the style? But yeah there are occassionally dresses made from silk, or velvet, or upholstery type fabrics, brocades, etc. But in general it will be a printed woven type cotton fabric? But a linen would be cute probably!
I ended up going with cotton for both layers. They didn't have pinstriped fabric, but I found something else really cool. Do you guys want updates and pics and things as I go along?
It's a meme I found while dicking around on the internet at three in the morning. I thought it was funny, probably because it was three am, and posted it here. I'll start posting real updates soon.
ohhhh I was confuse cause I've never seen that meme before and had a moment of "wait are you actually sewing an egg on the thing because I mean I respect your decisions but why"
It probably says something weird about me that I didn't even question it. I was just like "huh seems legit".
So I found this little pattern. http://fuckyeahgeekknits.tumblr.com...as-wondering-if-you-have-a-jurassic-park-logo And got the idea that since my boyfriend is a huge fan of both Jurassic Park and Harry Potter why not make a scarf with it on the ends in his house colors. But I'm not sure if I should put in stripes like the movie scarfs or leave it a solid color in between the two logos?
That's such a cute idea! I think I personally would do the stripes, but that's mostly just because I find them more fun to knit.
So, the cardigan I made myself last year...is too large to fit. So, since I am apparently super motivated by spite, I frogged it and am part-way through reknitting it to a smaller size. The first part of the back is already done, and I'm making good progress on the first sleeve.
