
It took a long, long time but now I can finally proudly present it to you – the dragonscale sweater!
Knitting pattern
Imoogi: Dragon Poncho by Lavish Craft
Strokkur by Isolda Teague
Azure Dragon by Lavish Craft
Yarn
Malabrigo Yarn Sock | Aguas
It was first mentioned almost exactly one year ago. At the beginning of this year, I dug it out and highly motivated unraveled it to the FJKA to start over. It was a fight. One who does justice to a dragon armor. I hated this project. Countless times I just wanted to give it up and even when it went off without any problems, the motivation was rather sparse.
But don’t you do all of that for the end result? Was it worth? It was. I love this sweater so much that while I cast off quite annoyed, I decided that I absolutely needed a second version in dark gray. But with documentation this time.
That is exactly the main problem. I have no idea what I was doing. The vast majority of the sweater is improvised, using an eye-to-eye tactic without taking any too helpful notes. And I successfully suppressed the rest at the moment of casting off.
The Pattern
The scales themselves are knitted according to the instructions of the Imoogi: Dragon poncho from Lavish Craft, the row of large scales are taken from the Azure Dragon. The implementation as a sweater is then stolen inspired by this particular project. A bit of Strokkur was also mixed in as a guide for the yoke – simply because I still had it in my library.
The pattern seems a bit complicated at the beginning – and it is. In my opinion. Until I realized that it is actually only increases and decreases and yarn overs that are knitted shut and that are even explained with video instructions. However, I hate videos and ignore them with a lot of enthusiasm. Using your brain a little bit does not harm the pattern at all.

I could have made it easy for myself and just knit a straight tube. Actually, that was the plan, especially because it is not that easy to convert the scales into a specific number of stitches. Obviously that failed if you take a closer look at the width of the top. As a side info: I actually wanted Negative Ease. I don’t know how that could fail so badly. I was blessing in disguise, because it looks pretty good.
In any case, I will not be fobbed off with something simple and still wanted to increase a few stitches for the bust width. Ignore the fact that the handful of increased stitches absolutely DON’T do any changes in the end result. At least it didn’t occur to me to start short rows – I saved them for the neckline instead. As I said, unfortunately I can’t reconstruct anything about it, but there will be instructions next time. Hopefully…

Wait, I just remembered one point! If anyone is supposed to do this madness to themselves, don’t do the same mistake as me:
The Dragon Poncho becomes narrower towards the top. This is taken into account in the knitting pattern and therefore I could have taken the yoke part from the Dragon Proncho pattern
But because I’m stupid, I didn’t use it. Instead, I used the Azure Dragon for the large scales and stayed with it and somehow screwed in the decreases myself. By the time I realized that, I was halfway through the yoke. So if you think about which of the two knitting patterns are more suitable, take the poncho .
Conclusion
Let’s rewind to the beginning. I planned a close-fitting, waist-length sweater with 3/4 length sleeves. I got a hip-length potato sack, but at least the sleeve length is correct. And my goodness, that turned out to be awesome stuff. The fabric falls really soft and somehow drapey like I don’t know it from knitted fabrics and when the sun shines it gets a really nice shine, while the scales become very plastic in softer light and the color changes depending on the light. That’s why there’s both today. This time my sister took the sunset pictures. Unusual to have someone else behind the camera

It is nice and airy (as there are holes in it) and at the same time pleasantly warm. Not suitable for a hot summer, but the perfect spring sweater. Well, there will definitely be another spring next year. Despite the wide sleeves it also fits under cardigans (and over turtleneck sweaters) and will probably not go to waste in the closet through autumn and winter. You can also wear it turned inside out (not always voluntarily), then it looks more like a shell pattern.

I now urgently need the right pants to wear it outside of the skirt pants. I don’t think that’s too nice with skirts, the length is just not suitable in my opinion, but the pointed edge would also like to be presented from time to time. I even think about buying a pair of pants again, because I really don’t feel like having to deal with the adjustment of trousers at the moment .. but I don’t really feel like doing the endless search either.
(It looks good with the faux leather skirt, but the skirt is just so damn short and still tends to crawl up that I rarely wear it in public)
By the way, taking pictures with my sister produces quite silly outtakes….

Linked at MeMadeMittwoch
Was für ein Muster und welch mystische Bilder. Wirklich mal was anderes …. da schau ich gleich mal weiter.
Vielen Dank, fühl dich hier wie zuhause ?
Aaah da habe ich doch gut dran getan, direkt zur dir zu klicken, im MMM Reigen habe ich Dich zunächst gar nicht gefunden….
Was für Fotos, großes Kompliment! Die Bilder im Wasser und dem Stab sind sensationell, hach wunderschön. Genau wie Dein Pulli, Du beschreibst es selber bestens, dieser leichte Glanz, die plastische Anmutung – so verdammt edel! Ich verneige mich vor der heutigen MMM Drachenkönigin! LG Kuestensocke
Danke sehr ?
Ich bin hin und weg – auch wenn er nicht ganz so geworden ist wie geplant, ist er wunderschön.
Vielen Dank ?
Wow, die Schuppen sehen wirklich toll aus, und die Farbe passt auch super zur Drachenoptik 😉 Ich finde, der Pullover ist super geworden, ist doch egal, ob die Passform anders geplant war.
Viele Grüße, Kathrin
Dankeschön ?
Unfassbar tolle Fotostrecke! Das Drachengewand ist wundervoll geworden aber Mikro-Wolfgang ist das Highlight (sorry)! <3
Danke, ja mit Mikro-Wolfgang kann man nicht mithalten ?
Der Pullover ist großartig! 😀 Ich finde ihn ja gar nicht kartoffelsackig, sondern genau richtig, aber ich mag auch einfach keine knallenge Kleidung 🙂
Und so tolle Fotos!
Danke ?
Es war auch gar nicht abwertend gemeint, ein schöner, weicher, glänzender Kartoffelsack ?
Wow! Fotos, Kulisse, Pulli – alles klasse!
Könntest du mit dem Strick bitte in Produktion gehen… ich würde definitiv so 2 bis 3 m nehmen. Sieht so toll aus.
LG Miriam
Klar und den Nervenzusammenbruch meinerseits gibt’s gratis dazu ?
Aber schön dass er gefällt ?
Also ich komme leider auch erst jetzt dazu, dir zu sagen wie großartig der Drachenpulli und deine Stimmungsvollen Bilder sind, obwohl ich deinen Beitrag am Mittwoch noch gleich begeistert gelesen habe. Ich hätte auch gerne sofort so einen, aber das erscheint mir zu frickelig. Ich bin aber dafür, dass du dir sofort noch einen strickst und wieder so schöne Bilder davon machst! LG Sarah
Vielen Dank 😀
Frickelig ist der auf jeden Fall gewesen. Ein bisschen Abstand werde ich brauchen bevor ich den zweiten anschlage aber steht schon auf meiner Liste und wartet darauf, dass ich das Grauen des ersten Pullovers erfolgreich verdränge 😀
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