Looking for Love in Alderaan Places!

I love fair isle knitting, I think it looks fab and it's really fun to knit up. That's why I enjoyed making the Frolicking Reindeer hats so much.

[Unfortunately, I didn't take a photo of the first one I made before I gifted it to a friend]

 

 

 

 When I was trawling the internet, looking for a pattern to use on the inside of the blue reindeer hat, I happened upon a bunch of geeky fair isle patterns - Doctor Who, Star Wars, Zelda etc. and I pinned  them on my Pinterest account for future use. A few weeks later, I was looking for something to put in the square allocated to another Star Wars pattern and I suddenly had a brilliant thought; why not use part of that fair isle pattern I'd put away for a rainy day [or to make a scarf next winter]?

So I headed over to Doodlewhale's site and grabbed the chart, which turned out not to be a knitting chart at all but a design for a fair isle style t-shirt; it worked brilliantly anyway. I picked out my favourite bit - the AT AT Walker getting all tied up - and set to work.

Square number 25: Star Wars: AT AT Walker

I think that this is my favourite square yet, it looks great and I'm happy that I decided to go with navy and white rather than black and white - it feels more snowy and wintery.

Weirdly enough, when I was half way through knitting this square, the lovely Kaleidiscope  on Ravelry.com noticed that I'd made some Star Wars projects and linked me to another Star Wars fair isle scarf pattern that also has an AT AT on it. Such a cool coincidence. Plus I loved the pattern she linked me to so keep an eye out for that, I'm hoping to make it later this year.

You are a Member of the Rebel Alliance, and a Traitor

I'm still working on the mischievous winter hat for my husband so I haven't knitted any new squares in about a week. At this rate my posting of the squares will catch up with my making of the squares and then I'll be in all sorts of trouble.

As you already know from my previous posting of my husbands five favourite things, he loves Star Wars. The fact that he's a Star Wars and I'm a Star Trek fan is probably the biggest point of contention in our marriage ;) But he did take me to see both of the new Star Trek films at the cinema so I guess I'll go and watch the new Star Wars films with him.

He's pretty firmly an 'Original Trilogy Only' fan and doesn't really stray into the expanded universe of the books and the rest (which turned out to be a good thing when they were suddenly declared not-canon). So when I drew out the design for the Geek-a-long's Jedi Order Square his comment was 'I didn't know the Jedi Order had a symbol'. Oops, I guess that comes more from the expanded universe? I really don't know. So, with all apologies to the Lattes and Lamas' girls, I had to leave that particular design and look for something a bit more recognisable.

To be fair, this is Star Wars we're talking about so it was probably less than 10 minutes of searching before I found Linda's cushion pattern.

Square number 11: The Rebel Alliance

My best friend's husband (who's an even bigger Star Wars fan than mine) usually ignores our BFF crafty squees chats but this time said 'You should make an Empire one too', so I'm counting this square as a win :D

Also, I don't know why the red looks hot pink in the first pic but it's definitely red and not the Disco Rebels insignia instead.