I have worked a pattern for a Sheikah Eye motif from Legend of Zelda. I may need to knit the design straight rather than in the round… Which may be. Interesting.

I had a hiatus when knitting this due to moving house. Part of the reason was that I had been using GoogleDocs to follow my project progress and had no internet for a week during my move, but really I didn’t have time (if I were making responsible decisions!). If it wasn’t bad enough that I didn’t really have time for knitting, the decision was taken from me in that my hands broke out in puffy, sore, cracked-and-bleeding eczema, and that make the idea unworkable. Ah well, back to it now :-)

I have decided to knit in round, but back and forth for the pattern section in the body (but still on circular needles). This involves splitting the round into front and back part way down the body, and making an extra stitch each side of the front and back as seam allowance so I don’t lose size in closing the body back up. I use stitch markers each side of the pattern to make sure it’s centred in the front and I don’t get lost. My pattern is 41 stitches wide, by 47 rows long, and has a margin of 14 stitches each side (and about 20 rows top and bottom).

So that I am not carrying threads behind the work and leaving a large gape, I am twisting the yarn around for each coloured stitch (that’s probably got a name I don’t know). I also have several shorter lengths of yarn bobbinned with clothes pegs. In the most complex part of the pattern there are 6 lines on the go (not counting the 2 balls of blue colour - one front and one back). I have a contrasting thread poked into each of the main balls so I can tell at a glance which is front and back so I don’t get tangled up.

It’s just such a pity that I’m using rainbow patterned wool because it obscures the design in some parts. I was a bit worried that colour pooling would make the side seam obvious but it doesn’t seem to be working out too obvious.