Knit Design Online Student Blog

Category: Inspiration

  • Sketchbook pages

    Starting with defined zigzags, additional imagery moved me on to a more organic & patchy approach. The patchy chevron design was developed & sold. Result. An exercise I used to do for C&G classroom courses was to give the same inspirational image to everyone for homework.  The following week we would view & discuss the…

  • Pinterest

    I know a number of you use Pinterest and find it good for storing information & imagery for your course.  For those who don’t, you might like to have a browse through my Pinterest boards (Knitwear, Knit Techniques and Colour Schemes would be a good boards to look at).  I purposely add things that are useful…

  • Inspiration / starting point for the cardigan assignment in a post below

    Visual research undertaken: looking at historical riding habits and at contemporary riding jackets.

  • V&A meeting 3rd November

    We concentrated mainly on the Ironwork Gallery, because there is so much inspiration here for cables and travelling stitches (Module 4). And because it is always far less busy than most of the galleries at a weekend.  I had intended us to go to the Cast Courts but they were still closed for renovation.  I…

  • V&A exhibition on Frida Kahlo’s style

    I loved this jewel of an exhibition.  It was really crowded and it was a bit of a hurried rush though but it left a strong impression. No photos allowed but I made a number of sketches (not easy in the crush) but I then took some photos from the book to give you an…

  • Inspiration translated into yarn & stitch

    Inspiration translated into knit. The ‘raggy’ bits on the inspiration artwork suggested (to me) using a very textured yarn in striped bands. The main/base yarn is a hand-dyed variegated wool, textured yarn is a lurex slub yarn in similar colours – just used for the ends of the wrap.

  • Intarsia plaited cables

    Roman mosaics from the British Museum, suggested Intarsia plaited cables. I love this technique- and you can move the ‘strands’ across the knitting just like you can with plain cables. I took it out of the cable module of the new course – maybe I should put it back in?

  • One days worth of drain cover patterns

     

  • Great Instagram account (Artgarments)

    This is a great source of garment style / detail inspiration… https://www.instagram.com/artgarments/  

  • Exciting colour schemes spotted coming into port at Hellsynt in Norway

    Apologies for there being so many, so similar – but it’s the slight differences in tonal value and light and background each time that got me excited.  The idea of changing yarn colours very slightly through something like a shawl or a striped sweater….., or for dyeing colour-change yarn ……    As the sun moved…