Kniterations
Jan. 25th, 2023 01:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kesbeaconSo I saw a Twitter thread encouraging people to write it up when they go beyond a guide, tutorial, or similar on the internet, so people can sort of follow the breadcrumb trail. So I thought I'd do a little post of some of my knitting projects that are complete so far and what I did to modify them.
Original pattern
The most obvious modification here is the addition of the dinosaurs! I created the pattern myself in Excel, which is surprisingly excellent for that sort of thing. The other thing is the gradient stripes. The way these are done is by alternating rows in the rhythm of 4/1; 3/2; 2/3; 1/4; and so on. It's the same thing for the top and bottom stripes.
Less obvious is the fact that I fucked up my gauge, which meant that the front and back panels came out drastically narrower than they should've. This meant that when I cast on extra stitches for the ribbed chest section, I cast on 14 extra per side, and then knit separate additional side panels at 28 stitches wide, which roughly compensated. (I wish I'd been able to do both in red, but alas! Lost yarn chicken.) This also allowed me to add a pocket by, on the red panel, casting on a further 20-odd stitches, and then decreasing back to the 28 further up. This was then stitched to the back of the front panel. I also reversed the stockingette for the pocket section so I could clearly distinguish.
The final modification was the addition of toggles at the neck opening. I looked at the original design and thought that that would immediately start gaping open and falling off the shoulders of any moderately active child, so I put eyelet buttonholes into one side of the chest section and sewed a pair of red toggles onto the other.
Original pattern
These ones I didn't modify as much; the key thing I did was again add those gradient stripes. This time the rhythm was 1/5; 2/4; 3/3; 4/2; 5/1; and then a varying number in the middle. The central colour I used to turn the heel with, and then went back to the original colour for the toes. I also carried the pattern all the way down to the toe rather than switching to pure stockingette.
Dinosaur vest
Original pattern
The most obvious modification here is the addition of the dinosaurs! I created the pattern myself in Excel, which is surprisingly excellent for that sort of thing. The other thing is the gradient stripes. The way these are done is by alternating rows in the rhythm of 4/1; 3/2; 2/3; 1/4; and so on. It's the same thing for the top and bottom stripes.
Less obvious is the fact that I fucked up my gauge, which meant that the front and back panels came out drastically narrower than they should've. This meant that when I cast on extra stitches for the ribbed chest section, I cast on 14 extra per side, and then knit separate additional side panels at 28 stitches wide, which roughly compensated. (I wish I'd been able to do both in red, but alas! Lost yarn chicken.) This also allowed me to add a pocket by, on the red panel, casting on a further 20-odd stitches, and then decreasing back to the 28 further up. This was then stitched to the back of the front panel. I also reversed the stockingette for the pocket section so I could clearly distinguish.
The final modification was the addition of toggles at the neck opening. I looked at the original design and thought that that would immediately start gaping open and falling off the shoulders of any moderately active child, so I put eyelet buttonholes into one side of the chest section and sewed a pair of red toggles onto the other.
Red and navy socks
Original pattern
These ones I didn't modify as much; the key thing I did was again add those gradient stripes. This time the rhythm was 1/5; 2/4; 3/3; 4/2; 5/1; and then a varying number in the middle. The central colour I used to turn the heel with, and then went back to the original colour for the toes. I also carried the pattern all the way down to the toe rather than switching to pure stockingette.
