SobtanianMay 15

Folks, a while ago I discovered a clever form of #knitting called illusion or shadow knitting.

It’s where a pattern is formed by stitches that only appear when viewed at a certain angle. It sounds complicated, but it’s just a combination of basic knit and purl stitches.

Anyway, I thought I’d do a quick test and I made this maple leaf and I must admit, I love how it turned out!

I think I might have a go at making a larger piece that can be viewed from the side, so I can hang it somewhere in the house.

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@Sobtanian Not sure if anyone has suggested it, but it would be interesting to also incorporate perspective skew so that it “looks correct” when viewed at the revealing angle.
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@voided Not sure what you mean, I think it looks correct as is 😅
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@Sobtanian like how forced perspective art works
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@voided Yes I was wondering if this what you meant.

I’m not sure it would work, the knitting illusion works by having bumps that aren’t visible until you look from an angle, creating a silhouette of the art (in this case a leaf), so those bumps might mess with the perspective warp.

However: any picture can be turned into an illusion knitting pattern so maybe I’ll try finding a simple forced perspective piece and knitting it, to test our theory.

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@Sobtanian I did think that the resolution of the knitting pattern may be a limiting factor. Though could work for simple shapes.