How do you crochet such slanted lines?
You don’t ;-)
Great idea, the cochet illusion cushion :)
Links:
Crochet Illusion Cushion (Café Wall Illusion Cushion – free crochet pattern)
via: Café Wall Illusion Cushion
Search Results for: illusion
Dragon Illusion
Do you know the little dragon? If you pass him by he’s turning his head and follows you with his eyes ;-))
Links:
Dragon Illusion
=> in the text is a link to a PDF with the template and to a video
=> you can find another video here: three dragons illusion
via: English Wikipedia entry for ‘Hollow-Face illusion’
Illusion Knitting Inspiration
I wrote about Illusion knitting before, this here is meant as an inspiration how far you can take it :)
Looks great, doesn’t it?
Links:
Illusion Knitting Inspiration (ENIGMA by MORGRAINE EDDINGTON)
via: Enigmatic Illusion (bit too ambitious!)
Here at unikatissima:
Illusion knit
Polymer Clay Layered Illusions
Doesn’t the pin look wonderful?
‘Simply’ decorate several sheets of translucent polymer clay with a pattern, layer them and you get a piece of jewelry with real depth!
One day…
;-)
Links:
Layered Illusions
Illusion knit
I tried illusion knitting once (Illusion knit – Shadow Knit) – and it worked – mostly ;-)
I learned it from strumpfbina’s Totenkopf Illusion Pattern (German).
You can see the result on the photo.
As template I used an old filet crochet template showing an angel. After the first rows I realized that fine details don’t show, so I didn’t knit the wings ;-)
The rest looks like a Mensch ärger’ Dich nicht pawn :)
That’s the item seen from above – rather…nice, I’d say ;-)
Links:
strumpfbina’s Totenkopf Illusion Pattern (German)
In the advent calendar of Wollke7 you can find behind door no. 3 the link to a PDF file with instructions for a potholder with a shadow Christmas tree (German).
How to design your own illusion patterns (for Hand knitting instructions scroll down)
At instructables.com: Shadow or Illusion Knitting
At craftster: Custom Illusion Knitting Tutorial – an instruction on how to design your own illusion knitting pattern
Google search result for ‘(illusion or shadow) knit’
Google image search result for ‘(illusion or shadow) knit’
Google search result for ‘schattenstricken’
Google image search result for ‘schattenstricken’
Wikipedia entry for Mensch ärger’ Dich nicht
Paper Tumbler
Halloween Apple
Well, there is not enough time anymore to make Halloween apples for this Halloween and if you like me don’t have an apple tree it won’t work, too, but somehow I found the idea nice ;-)
Links:
Halloween Apple
Fold-and-Cut Swan
Somehow fascinating: I made this (admittedly not really great) fold-and-cut swan by folding the paper in a special way and then making one(!) straight cut :)
Actually the fold-and-cut swan is nothing that I could use, I only wanted to know how it works :)
Links:
Fold-and-Cut Swan (Examples of Fold-and-Cut)
via: The Fold and Cut Problem
Orange Peel Box II
I presented an orange peel box before, but because I’ve found better basic instructions (English Google translation), because it’s time for oranges again and this here is painted and not cut out I decided to make this second entry ;-)
Links:
Orange Peel Box II (Natural Orange Box)
via: My dried orange peel box
via: A Box Made From A Dried Orange Peel
via: A Box Made From a Dried Orange Peel
Instruction: muy buena cajas con cascara de naranja … (Spanish)
via: Comment at ‘My dried orange peel box’
English Google translation of the instruction
Here at unikatissima:
Orange Peel Box
What Can You Do With Filet Crochet/Cross Stitch Embroidery Charts?
Recently something took me and I thought that you can use those two-coloured charts which are usually associated with filet crochet or cross stitch for a loooot of other techniques, too.
I had this idea already before, in my entries about intarsia knitting, the cross stitch heart, the beaded square stitch heart and the polymer clay letter cane.
On the photo you see some letters worked in different techniques (I’m working on letter charts at the moment ;-)):
'u' - Knit-Purl Knitting, each X is a purl stitch
'n' - Fair Isle Knitting, each X is a white stitch
'i' - Sequins Embroidery, each X is a sequin
'k' - Tapestry Crochet, each X is a white stitch
'a' - Filet Crochet, each X is a filled filet crochet square
't' - Cross Stitch Embroidery on paper, each X is a black cross stitch
'i' - Loom Beading, each X is a black bead
's' - Stamping with square stamps, each X is a black square stamp
's' - Illusion Knitting, each X is a black stitch over two rows
'i' - Crochet Yoyo’s, each X is a white crochet circle from dc’s
'm' - Inverted Filet Crochet, each X is a empty filet crochet square
'a' - Macramée/Friendship Bracelet, each X is a white knot
But then I came up with more techniques and if you still have more ideas I’d be glad if you wrote a comment about.
I added for every technique what would be a square of the chart.
Please remember: Not all ‘units’ are square so that the result can look quite different from the chart!
Knitting
- Fair Isle Knitting – 1 stitch
- Knit-Purl Knitting – 1 stitch
- Double Knitting – 1 stitch (I mean here this Double Knitting)
- Patchwork Knitting – 1 patchwork square (it gets a little larger ;-))
- Bead Knitting – 1 beaded stitch
- Illusion Knitting – 1 stitch over 2 rows
- Knitted Lace from Charts – 2 stitches over 2 rows (added on April 11, 2010)
Crochet
- Tapestry Crochet – 1 stitch
- Filet Crochet – 1 filet square (cross = filled square)
- Inverted Filet Crochet – 1 filet square (cross = empty square)
- Crochet Yoyo’s – 1 Crochet Yoyo, viz. a crochet circle from dc’s
Beading
- Loom Beading – 1 bead
- Beaded Square Stitch – 1 bead
- Bead Knitting – 1 beaded stitch
- Bead Embroidery – 1 bead
Embroidery
- Cross Stitch Embroidery – 1 cross stitch
- Sequins Embroidery – 1 sequin (just as at those sequins (scroll down to about the middle))
- French Knot Embroidery – 1 stitch
- Bead Embroidery – 1 bead
Knotting
- Macramée/Friendship Bracelet – 1 knot
- Crazy Daisies – 1 Crazy Daisy
Weaving
- Tablet Weaving/Card Weaving – eh, hard to tell ;-)
Sewing
- Patchwork/Quilting – e.g. 1 patchwork square
- Yoyo’s – 1 Yoyo
- Fabric Origami – 1 fabric origami square
Other
- Glass Paint – e.g. 1 cut square
- Polymer Clay Cane – 1 square cane
- Ministeck ;-) – 1 square ministeck piece (that’s how they look)
- Mosaic – 1 square mosaic piece
- Collage – 1 square paper snippet
- Stamping – 1 self-cut square stamp
By the way I found an blog entry of an embroiderer who thought about the same subject and has more ideas.
Links:
Double Knitting
Picture for sequin embroidery (scroll down to about the middle)
Description of French Knot
Heather’s Friendship Bracelets – Alphabet Patterns
Geometric stitching
Google image search result for ‘yoyo blanket’
Google image search result for ‘ministeck’
Here at unikatissima:
Celtic Cross Stitch Generator
Heart Template (at Beaded Square Stitch Heart)
Patchwork Knitting
Bead Knitting
Illusion knit
Tapestry Crochet
Beautiful Filet Crochet Patterns
Loom Woven Bead Bracelet
Beaded Square Stitch Heart
Bead Knitting
Freeform Bead Embroidery
Bead embroidered Paisleys
Friendship Bracelet
Crazy Daisies
Crazy Daisies II
Mosaic Table Light (Glass Paint)
Polymer Clay Letter Cane
Mosaic from Plaster
Eraser Stamps