Objective For this assignment you’ll be using the information you gained in the earlier colourwork tutorials and task to produce a new sample based on your own design and choice of colours, this time using the intarsia technique and thinking … Continue reading →
Objective For this assignment you’ll be using the information you gained in the earlier colourwork tutorials and task to produce a new sample based on your own design and choice of colours. Assignment 6 Part One – Design and make … Continue reading →
Objective In this assignment you will be putting all the skills you have learned in this section, exploring Fair Isle colourwork and how colour schemes can be developed. Assignment 5 Part One Using what you have learned so far, find … Continue reading →
Create a unique colourway by dyeing your own yarn and knitted fabric Working with colour is wonderful. What makes designing even more special is when you can create a colour of yarn that is unique to you! In this lesson … Continue reading →
Use increasing techniques to create shape – The ‘lifted’ (knit below or row below) increase & the ‘raised’ increase There are a number of ways in which we can create shape in our knits. Increasing is one such way and … Continue reading →
Objective In this assignment you will be putting all the skills you have learned in this section and producing a series of new samples that demonstrate how texture may be interpreted in different media. Assignment Three Select a new image … Continue reading →
Objective In this assignment you will be putting all the skills you have learned in this section and producing a series of new samples that demonstrate how texture may be interpreted in different media. Assignment 4 Review the texture samples … Continue reading →
Representational texture – Print & ink In addition to creating textures using three-dimensional, actual materials, we may also wish to record and represent texture in two dimensions. In the last two tasks in this module we’ll be exploring two media … Continue reading →
Drawing from a subject – Representational drawing Another source of inspiration for our designs is to be found in the works of other artists. That may be painters, sculptors, potters, fashion designers. When we draw on the work of others … Continue reading →
Use the blind contour technique and ink/pen to interpret a subject in timed intervals, capturing movement and rhythm If blind contour drawing is a technique you are unfamiliar with it isn’t as much of a leap of faith as it … Continue reading →