Shai-Hulud
Finished
May 9, 2016
June 3, 2016

Shai-Hulud

Project info
ExtermaWrap by Caren's Crochet
Crochet
Neck / TorsoShawl / Wrap
Hooks & yarn
6.5 mm (K)
Lion Brand Heartland
Lion Brand Heartland
Notes

when out walking on the open planes of Arrakis, the Fremen walk with an uneven gait, as not to create a rhythm that might call a sandworm, or Shai-Hulud. when pondering how to create an uneven gait, or a random number of lines to make each alternating color, i hit upon the idea of pi: it’s irrational, repeating, forever random.

my initial idea for number of rows was 44, created by the first 10 decimal places after the 3: 3.1415926535. since the yarn is bigger than my original pattern, i may end up doing less rows.

the source picture is the book cover from the Butlerian Jihad, by Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson

05/10/2016

mods: adding an extra dc in the beginning section and end section of each row; also not doing the colorwork rows - i’ll be going right from the first section of rows right to the post-stitches rows.

05/12/2016

did the first part of the pattern for the first 14 rows (3.1415) and r15 starts the post stitch section. i’ll be doing the increases in the backpost sections (on the right side). r15 (RS, in this instance) will have the section of 4 post stitches as per the pattern, but the increases will be in these sections, until they match the number of stitches in the larger post stitch sections (12).

also, the first and last segments (up to row 14) had twice the number of stitches that the other segements had, so for row 14, segments 2-7 had 14 sts, but segments 1 and 8 had 28. also on row 15, i did dcs up to 3 sts before the V-st, and then did 5 post stitches - two before the V, two that is the V, and one after the V.

05/18/2016

still increasing each of the post stitch sections. when i’m doing front posts in the section, it gets an increase.

also, starting with r25, i’m making the first and last segments a random kind of mesh/filet crochet section, as these two sections keep growing.

as of r25, the first and last segments have 47 sts&spaces, the (RS) FP segments have 20 sts, and the (RS) BP segments have 14 sts. (the BP segments right next to the first and last segments have 15, due to asymmetry.)

06/01/2016

3.1415926… row 31. 59 sts&spaces in first and last segments; the (RS) FP segments have 26 sts, and the (RS) BP segments have 20 sts. (the BP segments right next to the first and last segments have 11, due to asymmetry.)

while i have the …5,3,5 rows left, i may stop with this 5, making it only 36 rows total.

06/02/2016

Only doing 36 rows… 3.14159265. The very last row will be a chevron-y type rippple/wave.

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Finished
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June 3, 2016
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by Lion Brand
Aran
100% Acrylic
251 yards / 142 grams

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  • Project created: April 14, 2016
  • Updated: June 3, 2016
  • Progress updates: 9 updates