{"id":2244,"date":"2016-07-29T19:15:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T19:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2023-04-22T17:52:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T17:52:02","slug":"motif-challenge-part-3-tweaking-the-first-draft-of-the-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/motif-challenge-part-3-tweaking-the-first-draft-of-the-owl\/","title":{"rendered":"Motif Challenge part 2: Tweaking the first draft of the Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m continuing to work on a blog series about developing knitted motifs from an illustration. <\/a>  the last post about choosing the owl illustration here. <\/a> Let\u2019s make some exuberant beauty!<\/p>\n

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Once I’d transformed the colored outline of the owl in Stitchmastery <\/a>into twist stitches, I knit my first sample.  In dk yarn, it came out nearly as large as the 8.5×11” paper I’d printed the pattern on.<\/p>\n

It’s a little bit tricky to figure out which changes need to be made.  I need to triangulate between the illustration, the swatch, and the chart.  I usually point to the spot on the swatch a better spot would be for a line to fall, then count how many stitches different that would be, then note the change on the chart.<\/p>\n

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Looking at the first draft swatch, there is a lot to be happy about: it does look like an owl.  It doesn’t exactly look like a Northern Saw Whet Owl though, especially not the one I was referring too.  Part of the inaccuracy is from my first chart following the overlay.  Part of it was my choice to use a square grid, not a knitter’s grid.<\/p>\n