I have now collected together all our current illusion shawls patterns. Some of these have ‘pictures’ like our illusion art. Others have colour effects that form patterns, not pictures. Some people would describe these as shadow knitting. It is difficult to draw a line between illusion knitting and shadow knitting. As with all illusion knitting, …
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Illusion Baby Blankets
Over the years Steve has designed several illusion knitting baby blankets. When you look straight at the knitting you only see narrow stripes, in two colours. The image appears when you look from an angle. Illusions are notoriously difficult to photograph. They are much more impressive in real life. Most of the blankets are designed …
Menger & Sierpinski
This is a Menger Sponge. It is made from plastic canvas. A Menger Sponge is a 3D fractal. It is named after Karl Menger. The basic idea is that you take a cube and remove a square tunnel from the centre, in all three directions; then you remove a square tunnel, in all directions, from …
Illusion Art
Knitted illusions are extremely difficult to photograph. When you look straight at the knitting the image disappears and you only see narrow stripes. The image is revealed as you move round and look from different angles. We have recently updated a lot of our photos. These are probably the best we have ever had but …
Om
People often ask Steve to design particular illusion charts for them. He almost always says no. It is very time consuming and he always test-knits things himself to make sure they really work. He is always willing to help someone wanting to create their own and their are also tutorials on our web site. A …
Where did all the fish go?
This question has been asked so many times in the past couple of weeks. Our house is typical of houses in old mill towns. It is the end of a terrace of six, on a main road. It is less than a mile from the town centre but when this row of houses was built, …
2020 – The First Quarter
The first three months of 2020 haven’t been quite what I expected – and this doesn’t have much to do with COVID-19. To set the scene I need to go back a few months. If you have ever read anything about us you will already know that we spend much of our time designing, knitting, …
02022020
Today is 02/02/2020. Whichever side of the Atlantic you are this is a palindromic date. It doesn’t matter whether you put day or month first, or whether you put them before or after the year, they read the same backwards as they do forwards. What’s more the date will also read the same if you …