Batman Beyond Scarf

[jamjar]

So, I finished my Batman Beyond (or Batman of the Future) illusion knitting scarf. Thanks, again, to girl_starfish for drawing out the pattern half as big again. Without this, I would been forced to resort to conbini photocopiers and much tracing.


General notes and pretty pictures:



Illusion or shadow knitting is pretty simple. Basically, you have two colours, one for the pattern and one for the background (red and black in this case), which are knitted in two row stripes. The background (black) is raised garter-stich, and the pattern colour (red) is flat outside the motif, and switched around (background colour flat stockinette, pattern colour) on the motif.

This means that when you look at it straight on, you see red and black stripes:

Long view:

Close up


but when you look at it from an angle, you'll see the red, raised motif, and the black raised around it:


You can see the negative of the motif pretty clearly on the wrong side.

Long view

Close up


Instructions:

This was made using Spectre Modem red and black, 80m/40g and japanese size 8 bamboo needles. It's all springy when you touch it!.

Change color after every two rows. All odd rows are knit, so the pattern is [Row 1] black, knit 40, [Row 2, black] knit 4, purl 1, knit 35, [Row 3, red], knit 40, [Row 4, red] purl 4, knit 2, purl 34, [Row 5, black] knit 40 etc. Because I can't be bothered to type out "k40" 90 times, just take that as read for the odd rows.

All bold rows are red.

C0 40, black

MOTIF PATTERN

2. K4, P1, K35
4. P4, K2, P34
6. K5, P2, K33
8. P5, K3, P32
10. K5, P4, K31
12. P6, K5, P29
14. K6, P8, K26
16. P6, K10, P24
18. K6, P10, K24
20. P7, K9, P24
22. K8, P11, K21
24. P8, K13, P18
26. K10, P12, K18
28. P12, K12, P16
30. K14, P11, K15
32. P15, K11, P14
34. K17, P9, K14
36. P18, K9. P13
38. K19, P9, K12
40. P20, K9, P11
42. K20, P10, K10
44. P13, K17, P10
46. K16, P18, K6
48. P16, K20, P4
50. K16, P18, K6
52. P13, K17,P10
54. K20, P10, K10
56. P20, K9, P11
58. K19, P9, K12
60. P18, K9, P18
62. K17, P9, K14
64. P15, K11, P14
66. K14, P11, K15
68. P12, K12, P16
70. K10, P12, K18
72. P8, K13 P18
74. K8, P11, K21
76. P7, K9, P24
78. K6, P10, K24
80. P6, K10, P24
82. K6, P8, K26
84. P6, K5, P29
86. K5, P4, K31
88. P5, K3, P32
90. K5, P2, K33
92. P4, K2, P34
94. K4, P1, K35

Comments

[navisx.livejournal.com]

My god this is cool.

[ladyvyola.livejournal.com]

Even cooler than I'd imagined based on your tests!

Go you!

[errantimpulses.livejournal.com]

chiming in with another, "that is soooooo coooool"....cause wow, it so is. :-D

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's not actually that tricky to make, once you have the pattern worked out and a handy little rowcounter.

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

Thanks! My first time making this type of scarf (actually, only my third knitted thing I've ever made).

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It wasn't that difficult to do, once I'd, you know, figured out what I should be doing.

[red-eft.livejournal.com]

Awesomeness. Almost makes me wish I could knit.

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

This was only about the third or fourth thing I've ever made, and I only started to knit this year.

[darkdanc3r.livejournal.com]

wow... now if only someone could come up with a way to do this in crochette... i may have to learn how to knit... way awesome!

[navisx.livejournal.com]

I'm a member of the Handy-Craft impaired males club... I wouldn't be able to figure out what I should be doing to do that.

(As proof of this; I failed the grade 8 HomeEc mandatory unit on sewing...)

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

Knitting is surprisingly easy, really. Illusion knitting is actually pretty basic, no tricky stitches, no increasing or decreasing. I've only started knitting at all this year, and this is just the third or fourth scarf I've made.

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

Learning how to crochet is next on my list of Stuff To Do.

[brownbetty]

Just when I thought that my geek-love for you was at its full extension on every axis.

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of doing one for the Green Lantern logo. I'm not as much a GL girl, but the logo would work really well.

Possibly, I need help. The internet, alas, is not the place to find it.

[brownbetty]

The internet is full of enablers. Sweet, sweet enablement.

Although I would be surprised if there was a fen/knitting twelve step program.