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Drawing Knitting

In between knitting I’ve been drawing the knitting. This is the handspun, hand-dyed yarn being promoted to a brioche scarf. Brioche stitch is really easy to do and it has the most amazing loft to it. Probably helped out by the light spin I did on the singles yarn.

Drawing yarn, I’ve found, is challenging but also very rewarding because I’m drawing something I want to know more about.
Nita at InkTracks has created an amazing pencil drawing of yarn awaiting transformation.

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  1. I’m in awe! This is such a precise and yet lively drawing. How did you color every single stitch individually? Is this painted? or colored in photoshop?

    February 17, 2006
  2. What a delightful sketch this is! You’ve got the perfect light touch here. I did a quick w/c of a scarf I was knitting a while back and it just looks dull and chalky. I must work with washs and find out more about w/c it is so worth it.

    February 17, 2006
  3. Thank you for the comments. This is just an ink sketch with a very quick water colour wash over it. But I used a few shades of blue and purple. Watercolour just seemed to hit the mark with this one.

    February 17, 2006
  4. This is great! So much detail. I’m very impressed.

    February 17, 2006

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