Argus Knitalong: Week 1

[laughingrat]

So how goes it? Anyone loving the pattern? Hating the pattern? Having problems? Tips to share? Still waiting for your yarn to arrive? ;) If you've got progress pics, questions, answers, links to knitting blog entries, what-have-you, please share them in the comments!

Comments

[kareila]

I am halfway through my second repeat of Chart A and starting to get bored. :)

[laughingrat]

Yeah, the body is pretty monotonous after a while. What kind of yarn are you using? Variegated, solid, semi-...? I'm keeping myself occupied by admiring the texture of the stitches and the subtle way the yarn I'm using shifts colors. That, and just when the chart starts to get super dull, it throws in those side decreases. LOOK OUT OMG

I should maybe get a picture or two, but that'd mean setting up the light box. Well, I should anyway. :)

[kareila]

Solid black. Very pretty, but not so much with the visual interest.

My previous project was a Noro Striped Scarf and that /flew/ by.

I need to construct a light box at some point...

[laughingrat]

They look fairly straightforward to do! I went ahead and bought a small one because of the yarn biz, but for photographing stuff on an occasional basis, those cardboard/paper lightboxes seem really genius.

Solid black will look really elegant when it's done! You know what must be really monotonous is Icarus. Gorgeous shawl, but huge, laceweight, and almost all done like Argus (at least from appearance). The Seraphim shawl was similar except at least it was mostly stockinette. ;)