[knitting] beginning the Eris

[juldea]

I have officially begun on the Eris pullover commissioned by chaiya. Woo!

I'm taking this one seriously. I did three different swatches on Monday night while londo and etherial played V:TES. Figured out which needle sizes to use for the parts done flat and the parts done on circulars.

For the record, this pattern is INSANE. Ask tpau; I showed it to her last night. Since there's nine different sizes represented in the pattern, a single instruction will have one, three (S/M/L), or nine different variations. And the cable charts are all separated out and combined in different orders depending on what size you're making. Wow! That said, it looks like a lot of fun, and about the time I will tire of the cabling the stockinette kicks in. Heh.

I started on the train this morning, and I have, uhm, eight rows done. Hee. More at lunch, and then on the bus home, and then...

:)

Comments

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

Woo-hoo! :)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

That yarn is a DREAM to work with. It's so soft!!

[tpau]

what is it? the yarn that is?

also, is the pattern really as nutsoid as it looks? i wnat to makean eris oen of these days... thoguh i'd be makignthe cardi

[juldea.livejournal.com]

It's Classic Elite Waterspun (http://www.yarndex.com/yarn.cfm?yarn_id=659) in a nice dark blue. :)

It's not that nutsoid once you go through and cross out all the instructions for the sizes you're not making. ;)

[tpau]

heh. she tends to write her patterns really wicked clearly... i liek your idea of hte binder btw... wicked nice. any idea hwo long you think it will take you to do it?

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Hopefully not longer than two months... I want to be done by March :)

[tpau]

heh. cool. i look forward to seeing progress every tuesday :)

[anitra.livejournal.com]

wow. Just... wow. That looks incredibly challenging (and beautiful!)

Hopefully, you'll have better luck at sizing than my mom has had... She gave me a handmade cardigan last Christmas... she told me she made it, realized it was huge, ripped it back out, remade it... it was still huge. The third time, she got something a normal-sized person would wear. It's still a bit longer than I'd prefer, but after that story, there's no way I'd ask her to modify it again. ;)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Well, sizing is what the swatches are supposed to fix - the pattern is written with a certain number of stitches per inch assumed, so I made sure I was using yarn and needles that got that number of stitches per inch. Hopefully it works!!

[ratbastrd.livejournal.com]

Okay, I know nothing whatsoever about knitting, but I am slightly confused. It's a nice sweater, but what's it got to do with the Greek Goddess of Chaos?

[juldea.livejournal.com]

You haven't seen the pattern.