Completed Pac-Man Peysa

At long last, I have finished knitting the Pac Man Peysa!
Doc modeling the Pac Man Peysa in a bookstore

I’m pretty happy with how it turned out!

As you might recall, I told Doc that I would knit a sweater for him if he designed one. While the sweaters I had been knitting for myself were more traditional-looking Icelandic sweaters (lopapeysa), Doc of course designed a Pac-Man Peysa! He used http://knittingpatterns.is/ to do it, which is a super fun tool for designing Icelandic sweaters (although it is ancient and runs on Microsoft Silverlight)

Of course, the pattern had a lot of difficulties in it, since it was designed by somebody who had never knitted before (that is to say, Doc). I didn’t think about that, but it really made a difference to how things worked out. After I complained, Doc would make modifications based on my feedback and it would be much easier to implement.

I had initially thought that it was important to be super faithful to Doc’s design; but when I would bring up a part of the pattern that was not ideal for knitting, it would turn out that he didn’t even particularly want it that way – he just designed it like that because he didn’t know it would make it more difficult. So the pattern went through many many changes, and the final pattern is something we collaborated on.

It was still difficult in many ways, like having all the different color ghosts (instead of one color of ghost which would have been much easier), but that is something we weren’t willing to compromise. That’s almost the whole point of the sweater! And I’d say it was worth it.

If you want to download the pattern we generated from knittingpattern.is, it is here:

pac-man-sweater

Note that the pattern doesn’t indicate the accurate number of stitches in the sleeve pattern, because it doesn’t show the increases. However the instructions do accurately say to increase every 6 rows. Use your judgement, and don’t do an increase in the middle of Pac-Man’s face or something, that sort of thing, and it will still work out fine.

Here’s some more photos of Doc wearing it:

Doc modeling the Pac Man Peysa

Finished Pac Man Peysa!

And here are some of the in-progress photos to reminisce over:

Iceland 2017
Me knitting the neckband of the peysa
More Pacman peysa progress
In progress shot / closeup of the sleeve
The Pac Man Peysa is getting close to done...
In progress shot from when I was still working the yoke

More Pac Man Peysa Progress

Apparently I have a zillion different things I’m working on simultaneously, and I’m like not even close to finished with any of them, so allow me to provide yet another update on the Pac Man Peysa! I mean, I am pretty excited about this. And it is looking more and more recognizable as it progresses…

More Pacman peysa progress

The progress on this sweater has been going so slow mainly due to my rediscovering Morrowind. As if you couldn’t tell that I’d started playing again…

Pac Man Peysa Progress

I’ve finally finished the lower torso on my husband’s Pac Man Peysa, so at last I’ve been able to start the sleeves!

Finally making progress on the Pacman peysa

So far, so good. I like the strawberry 🙂

The lower torso is always the longest, most boringest part for me with lopapeysas because it is just the same stitch in the same color foreeeeever. And I guess it didn’t help that I spent all my time playing Morrowind rather than knitting. Oh, well.

Doc’s designs have gone through several iterations, and I believe it is still changing. But by the time I get to the yoke, I’m sure he’ll have it finalized.

Here are some of the versions…