Intarsia Artworks 🚬 💁🏻 👀

For my new course at college (Foundation diploma in Art and Design) we were set a project called “I Am”. We had to create 6 outcomes that were 10 X 10 that expressed something about who we are. Of course, for this i had to include some knitting!¡ 😅 

I was inspired by the work of Solene Lebon-Couturier, who creates knitted portraits. I thought  I would have a go at creating my own, using intarsia and fair isle techniques!: 

 

I can’t wait experiment more with using knitting as a medium in art!¡ ✌️😄 

Intarsia Rules

So i created this neat little intarsia cheat sheet in my sketchbook and also to help me remember the processes to use when knitting! Hope u enjoy 🙏🏻✌️

Eye Intarsia

So, this time I decided to try one of my own designs of a spooky eye. I think the eyelashes could of come out better but I’m pleased overall 👁

Im still knitting my blanket and going to be trying cable really soon!!! Here is my design: 

More Mario Intarsia

After a successful move i am back to knitting 8bit mario stuff. This time I chose the question box and just followed its original 8bit pattern:

So far this is probably the least successful pattern and I recon if I had made it bigger it would of looked better! More to come soon… ✨✨✨

1Up Intarsia!

Can’t think of a better way to spend my summer now that I’m addicted to intarsia knitting!! 

Continuing on with the Mario theme I made this 1up in intarsia knitting! Here’s the pattern I made below! I’ve noticed the trick to knitting any pattern is to remember that they get a bit squashed in the horizontal direction. So I have tried to deliberately make my patterns longer vertically to counteract this so that the finished product looks as close to the original 8bit characters as possible. 

Soon I may try and knit these motifs into some socks or even a scarf! But for now I’m just going to practise so I can get better and neater at it! 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄

First try at Intarsia ❤💜

So I found out that a good way to knit a pattern without having lots of hanging strings (as with fair isle knitting) is to use a technique called Intarsia. For this I just looked it up on YouTube and used the first two videos to help me get started. And they actually turned out to be super helpful!!! This method is a neat way to knit complex motifs that have frequent colour changes, unlike with fair isle where you normally just alternate 2 colours.

My first attempt (front)

(back)

The pattern here was supposed to be a heart of my own design but as it was my first go it didn’t quite take the form I had hoped for! As you can see the back is almost as neat as the front. 

My second attempt with 3 colours. (Front)

(back)

The back on this one was a lot messier due to having so many loose ends to sew in at the end! However this one is a lot cuter and looks more like a heart. So overall, I recon I’ve made good progress 🙌😁. Just got to watch out for my tension in places as at the moment it is looking a bit uneven. Although I think this might be due to me pulling on the loose ends a bit too much ❣