I knitted the Festive Romulan Winter Sweater from Star Trek Online, or as I have termed it, the Rihanpeysa. My favorite part of the design is the quilted shoulder pad accents. And the D’deridex cruisers too, I guess.
Knitting The Rihanpeysa
Category: Knitting
Knitting Scale Mail
I’ve been knitting test swatches of scale mail to figure out the ideal scale spacing for my lorica squamata, and I think I’ve figured it out
Of course this means I have to essentially knit a whole new sweater now
The Newest Lopapeysa!
Welllp, I’ve finished another lopapeysa… just in time for summer, alas. I’ve still been wearing it out of obstinance because I don’t want to wait until next winter to wear it.
I followed Jenn Steingass’ “Dreyma” pattern and it is different from traditional Icelandic sweater patterns in a few ways: it is knitted from the top-to-bottom (instead of bottom-to-top like most Nordic sweaters) and it has short-row shaping for making the back longer, and decreases for the waist and increases for the hip – so it is more fitted than most traditional peysas, which are somewhat unisex. Also also it has an option for the rolled collar instead of the traditional ribbed collar.
I like the unisex sweater look with the ribbed collar, and of course I could have gone for that again, but I figured I have so many peysas with such a similar layout that I should make at least one different – just to mix it up.