BLANKET BLANKET BLANKET.

[camwyn]

Here's a bunch of the pictures I took of the CONTEST BLANKET OF DOOM. I'll be delivering it in person to the contest address in Hawthorne, NJ today. All of 'em are thumbnails, no larger than 200 x 200 pixels. You want bigger picture or more detail lemme know- still have the original snaps.

The whole thing, laid out on the porch.
One of the off-white panels.
Close up of one of the off-white bits next to the cable panel. I had knitted a pattern section that reminded me of arrows- that's what it was called in the book- but I realised about two reps in that the 'arrows' looked rather more like part of the Elder Futhark. Specifically, algiz, though with borders along either side. It happened to be next to the panel where I originally meant to render the St. Andrew's Cross as per the flag of Scotland; that one, which is more visible in the picture, rather resembles inguz. And the part you can't see because it's hanging over the back of the couch was marked 'seed stitch zig-zag', but bears rather a resemblance to sowilo in my opinion. I did not mean to do that at the time.
More of the same off-white panel.
Again, the whole thing, laid out lengthwise.
And laid out the other way.
One end at a slightly better lit angle.
The non-runey bit of the inadvertently runey panel
Another end shot- I bordered this in garter stitch double-thickness strips

That should do. I'll provide other pictures if you ever wanna, but that should do for now.

Comments

[taimatsu]

That is really impressive :) Well done!

[camwyn]

Thank you! *shakes out hand* Man the ends of my thumbs are sore right where the needles lay...

And I have no idea why LJ insists on rendering the futhark link as an FTP one instead of HTTP. It says http: in the source, dammit.

[colubra.livejournal.com]

It's rendering a directory- ftp://members.aol.com/JehanaS/futhark/ - rather than an HTTP page.

[camwyn]

Oh. Poo. Will find anothe reference page to use then.

[colubra.livejournal.com]

I think you could find a pic in that directory which contains the rune in question- though my knowledge on this topic is scant-to-say-the-very-least.
That's a beautiful blanket,too. Gorgeous work!

[taimatsu]

I can imagine! The only knitted thing I've ever managed to finish is a small heather-blue square I sewed up into a beaded hairclip, years ago; so I'm in awe of something not only so complicated but so *huge* :) I tried starting a moss stitch scarf in purple recently, but it all went horribly wrong. I think I can't purl properly.

[camwyn]

Purling can be a bit problematic at first. I know that when I first taught myself to do it, I wound up knitting through the back loop instead- it took me quite a while and several comparisons with photographs in my reference book to get it right.

[eevieivy.livejournal.com]

Very, very cool. :)

[ocean-song.livejournal.com]

Honey, that is truly spectacular. The woman who receives it will be SOOOOOOOO lucky! Really, it's a work of art! *crosses fingers* Hope to see you soon!

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

I am so damn impressed.


I also adore that icon. SPLOOSH!

[derien.livejournal.com]

That is one beautiful blanket.

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

Wow.