You're absolutely dead on what you did incorrectly:
Don't step up and slip stitch. It will make a HUGE difference! Most Ami patterns are done in continuous rounds (stitch markers or a safety pin are your friend for life here!). Generally you don't "step up" or "ch 1" unless the pattern specifically says it.
Basically, when you want to create a sphere/3-d shape, just go in a continuous spiral. By stepping up it creates a 2-d circle :)
Give it another go without stepping up and you should be just fine. :)
============== Your little star guy looks fab, btw. :)
OH and I'm currently working on the same katamari pattern, and one thing I did notice was that the halves will look slightly flat (kind of like a little beanie) since it is goes out to 54st for the middle. It should be fine when you sew it all together.
That... really does look crazy o_0 Kudos for pulling it off, though! I think that's going to be out of my range of abilities for a while, but I'll definitely have to bookmark that :D Thanks!
Hehe, thanks :D I like it lots, too <3 And to think, when I first bought that skein of glow in the dark yarn, I didn't think I'd find something to do with yellow (which is all they had left) XD
If you camera has a night or fireworks or some kind of setting like that where the shutter is held open longer, you should be able to photograph your glowing star. It might even take if you just turn the flash off. Be careful that your camera is on a solid surface because if you're just holding it, it's going to blur (unless you are some supersteady freak of nature ;) )
Haha, I'm definitely not supersteady XD I tried no flash and got a black square, but I didn't think about fireworks settings. I will have to go look that up and see if I have it on my camera :D Thanks for the tips <3
I'll add that it works even better if you use the autotimer function and take your hand away after you've pressed the shutter button down, that way there will be absolutely no shake from your hand. If you have a manual mode on your camera, that will be the best option for getting a good glowing picture, because you can set exactly how long you want the exposure. Otherwise, night mode with no flash as mentioned will probably be your best bet.
For the glowing alien picture that I posted here, I was in a bathroom with no windows and set him and the camera on the counter. I kept the bathroom lights on for several minutes so the yarn would be "charged". I had my manual settings for an aperture of f2.8, which is the larger aperture on my camera, meaning that it was set to let the most light in; and an exposure of 13 secondsThen I pressed the shutter button halfway down to autofocus (I think this is standard on most digicams these days, you can also manually focus if you have that option and like that better
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Wow, that is a really excellent picture of your alien :o I will definitely have to look up whether I have a manual setting (I really haven't used my poor camera much) in case there isn't a fireworks setting or the fireworks setting doesn't work well enough :) Thank you so much! :D
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Don't step up and slip stitch. It will make a HUGE difference! Most Ami patterns are done in continuous rounds (stitch markers or a safety pin are your friend for life here!). Generally you don't "step up" or "ch 1" unless the pattern specifically says it.
Basically, when you want to create a sphere/3-d shape, just go in a continuous spiral. By stepping up it creates a 2-d circle :)
Give it another go without stepping up and you should be just fine. :)
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Your little star guy looks fab, btw. :)
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I'll add that it works even better if you use the autotimer function and take your hand away after you've pressed the shutter button down, that way there will be absolutely no shake from your hand. If you have a manual mode on your camera, that will be the best option for getting a good glowing picture, because you can set exactly how long you want the exposure. Otherwise, night mode with no flash as mentioned will probably be your best bet.
For the glowing alien picture that I posted here, I was in a bathroom with no windows and set him and the camera on the counter. I kept the bathroom lights on for several minutes so the yarn would be "charged". I had my manual settings for an aperture of f2.8, which is the larger aperture on my camera, meaning that it was set to let the most light in; and an exposure of 13 secondsThen I pressed the shutter button halfway down to autofocus (I think this is standard on most digicams these days, you can also manually focus if you have that option and like that better ( ... )
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