Half a Phoenix

[liralen]

Half a Phoenix
Originally uploaded by Liralen Li.

I had to rip seven rows. Bah.

At the very beginning, I had tried to figure out exactly how many rows of each of the nine shades of background color I had to do. And I GOT IT WRONG. Dang that calculus for shoving all that simple mathematics out of my head. How could I *divide* wrong?

Anyway... I have been kind of winging the colors anyway (though by a mildly fudged fibonacci sequence to lend structure) and I'd added some red to my palette that I hadn't originally had or planned for. But by adding the rows I had, I could fudge the numbers right near where I'd stopped. So I set a life line, took it all off the needles and thought I might as well take a picture of it here anyway... so this is the picture, so far. I'm about halfway done, I think. Though past the armpit, the body gets a bit narrower, which is cool, as I can make up a few more rows there, too, I think.

I ripped just eight rows. And I'm now back on track for the colors, I think. I hope. I pray. *grin* The lifeline made it dead simple to pick everything back up again, too, which, with two-color knitting, is NOT the easiest thing in the world. So I'm content, again, that I haven't cheated *too* badly.

Comments

[incandescens]

That is looking absolutely incredible. Congratulations on your persistence. I look forward to seeing the finished version.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*beam* I'll hope.

[rephetibel.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh. Wow.

How do you "set a lifeline?"

[liralen.livejournal.com]

You take a yarn or thread and with a darning needle, put it through every stitch on the row you want to stop ripping at.

In this case I put a silk yarn through every stitch of the eighth row. And then I pulled out the first seven rows. It automatically stops at the sewn in thread, and the thread holds all the stitches so that I can just put 'em back on the needle, neatly and easily. Made it really easy to pick them back up.

[rephetibel.livejournal.com]

What a good thing to know! Thank-you!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

You're very, very welcome.

[marith.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's stunning! Congratulations! The color gradation and the feathers.....now I want to design and make something like that for embroidery.

Also, that would make a fabulous texture for use in photoshopping sorts of things...may I borrow it?

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

You may, indeed, use the picture and texture in your photoshopping. :-) I'd just love to see what you make of it. *grin*

[writeanya.livejournal.com]

jesus, mary & joseph! complicated and incredible. really nice work.

tho not inspired to go to these lengths, i am inspired by you to continue down my amigurumi design path!

go fiber artist, GO!

:)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*beam*

Meg's pattern is way cool.

Yay, you go, too! :-)

[archangelbeth]

Wow! That's going to be spectacular when you finish it.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*beam* I hope so! Putting that much time into something, I wanted spectacular. There's a gray and black version too, which looks very sophisticated, but I wanted spectacular. *grin*

[writeanya.livejournal.com]

btw, i think this should be your next pattern in a sweater. :)

http://www.soulsofdistortion.nl/images/Crop_Circle_spirals.jpg

SO pretty. and, so easy.

not.

*giggle*