I’ve felt an absence in my Wardrobe of Nerdery, so I bought a grey sweater and remedied that! Now I have a Cardassian-Armor sweater, and it’s really comfy!
So of course I had to go and have a whole dang photoshoot because space-lizards are extremely overdramatic!
Okay, I am gonna reblog this till I die.
Can I ask how you did this? Is it embroidered yarn?
@tinsnip Yep! It’s embroidered.
I bought a plain gray sweater online, printed out several pictures of Cardassian armor for reference, and made the lines using a chain stitch in light gray yarn I bought at a craft store. I chose chain stitch because it gives a good width to the line and pairs well with a knit. Since it’s hard to draw guiding lines on a sweater, I used a mix of trial-and-error and loose running stitches with plain cotton thread so I had something to follow with the yarn.
The back of the sweater actually looks slightly different from the front. To get it right I had to stare at a fan video of Gul Dukat’s back end quite a lot (fortunately that isn’t too hard to find). Here’s the back view:
I hope this has been helpful, and thanks so much to everyone for expressing interest! It was a little idea I had over a year ago (in this post actually!) that has given me immense satisfaction.
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