Knitted teleport bracelet!

[vilakins]

Another hot day today! I had to go into town to meet my sister for lunch at a place she swore was wonderful, but where we ate very substandard pasta (she apologised and said it was really good for dinner which didn't really help). She was buying material for an outfit for a family wedding next month which I'm really pissed off about because it's on at the same time as the Wings Over Wairarapa air show where they'll have a Spitfire. A Spitfire! Newmarket was hot, crowded, and noisy and it's taken me over an hour to cool down.

I have however finally sewn my knitted teleport bracelet together, done using wolfma's pattern here.

It fits well, but doesn't appear to work. :-(


The pink crystal is slightly raised due to increasing and decreasing two stitches.


When I do another one (I have lots of yarn left over), I shall use a better method of knitting yarn in behind than I did for this one, and plain intarsia for the pink to make it stand up more.


On my hand, looking eerily gothic in the shade. :-P

Comments

[wolfma.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's wonderful! You made it look better than I ever could.

Thanks for the corrections to the pattern. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

No! Your picture was lovely, and you used better (and shinier) yarn! I was pleased to find such a vibrant pink though.

[wolfma.livejournal.com]

I wish I had yarn like your brownish-black. The only colors I could find were either black or brown that was way off.

I'll get around to putting my Cygnus Alpha pattern up sometime.

Right now I'm thinking about how to turn ORAC into a handbag (sounds like something Vila would threaten--he'd make a nice bag for Jenna). I think it just might be possible, using clear and glow-in-the-dark jelly yarn.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You can get such yarn? Not here, you can't! [cries] That sounds just wonderful.

Greg suggested I knit Vila's toolbox, but honestly, you can buy them here as red and white chilly-bins / eskies (not sure what you call them there).

[wolfma.livejournal.com]

I considered making a small cardboard version of Vila's toolbox to send one of my teleport bracelets to a friend, but I never got around to it.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

How cute! :-)

I can't do that with the one I'm going to send to crycraven as it would really raise the cost of postage.

Oh, and BTW

[wolfma.livejournal.com]

You can order jelly yarns online. http://www.jellyyarns.com/

I think I'll make a cheap acrylic mock-up first, just to see if it works.

I discovered something: ORAC changes from Series Two to Series Four. He looks different inside!

Re: Oh, and BTW

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Cool! I'll have to see if I can buy them here. Freight's such a pain; it's usually more than the item is worth.

How are you going to do his insides? Just in a pattern on the outside? He's really quite complex.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I just added this to my Ravelry page, and linked to your pattern. :-)

BTW how did you get a picture of your journal to display in Ravelry?

[wolfma.livejournal.com]

You have to do it when you add a project or a pattern. There's a button or a link or something that lets you import a picture. I'd have to go look at it again to see exactly how.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ah, that explains it! That site is very clever at finding patterns I've linked to like the DW scarf one.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I imagine that when ORAC heard of the threat to turn him into a handbag he would come over all Lany Bracknell-ish: "A handbag!"