flyinmysoup

i can't wait to see all the utterly witty titles pertaining to dragons that i can come up with while i'm knitting the HBDS....i apologize in advance!  lots of interest in keeping you all updated on the progress, trials, and tribulations of the HBDS, so i will do my best to oblige.  i've decided to post WIP pics when i complete a chart set (the pattern has the charts broken into 4 sections).  in that vein, here's the pics of Chart 1 (82 rows down!) completed: as of right now, i'm loving the pattern.  it is a great deal more involved that a lot of the knitting that i have been doing, and i'm tinking back a lot.  since there aren't really vertical pattern repeats (or horizontal, for that matter) i'm not using any life lines (that and i don't really use them all that much anyhow).  the pattern is worked on both right and wrong sides, so there isn't even a purl-respite every other row.  that's where a lot of the tinking has come into play.  there is a stitch used called the Horizontal stitch that i was not familiar with, and the instructions as written in the pattern were a bit unclear (imho).  i did some searching and sussed it all out, and now i'm enamoured of that particular stitch.  here's a detail picture that shows how the dragon form is made in a twisted latice type stich and how the horizontal stitches come into play.  now to print off chart two!