Posts Tagged ‘knitted’

 

Obsession: Norwegian Mittens

Friday, October 26th, 2012

I’ve always thought of Norwegian Mittens as the traditional, stranded-colorwork mittens with a pointy tip, featuring an image on the back of the hand and a simple repeating pattern on the palm. I wanted to make sure I actually knew what I was talking about, though before I posted. Unfortunately, Wikipedia doesn’t have a page devoted to Norwegian mittens, so you’ll all have to wait a bit before I can get some more information.

In the meantime, I’ve scoured Ravelry for the most beautiful examples of these mittens. (If you don’t have a Ravelry account, you might not be able to access the links. But – why don’t you?? Sign up! It’s awesome!)

 

JaneMumbles Mitten Swap Mittens

 

Craftivore’s Selbu Mitts

David’s Squirrel Sampler Mittens

 

ItalianDishKnit’s Northman Mittens

TheLittleRedHen’s Paper Doll Mittens

 

FrazzledKnitter’s Fiesta Mittens

 

Fern1Knits’ Skulls and Flowers

Pinneguri’s Purple Beauties

 

SpillyJane’s Cupcake Mittens

 

IgnorantBliss’ Burnham

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Fixed: Free Knit-Stitch Photoshop Brushes!

Friday, December 16th, 2011

I uploaded these knit stitch Photoshop brushes back in October, but I’ve since learned that the original file didn’t include all of the brushes. Oops! I re-packaged them for you, so you should be good to go! Merry Christmas!

Download! (.zip 359 KB)

To create a canvas of lovely stockinette (that never curls!) simply do the following:

1. With either the single or the row of stitches, position your cursor at the upper left side of your canvas (or at desired start point).
2. While holding the shift key down, click and drag your cursor to the bottom of your canvas (or to desired stop point)
3. Repeat along the entire length of your imagined sweater-canvas.

For gorgeous fair-isle or stranded colorwork, simply use the “filled” knit brush in the color of your choice to go over individual stitches:

The Fine Print:
These Adobe Photoshop brushes were created by Natalie Matz licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
In other words, please use and enjoy them, but *don’t* use them for profit or commercial use and please give me credit if you share or modify them!

 

(You can check out the original post here, if you fancy.)

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Cozy

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

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Knitted water bottle cozy in Noro Kureyon Sock.

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Free Download: Knit Stitch Photoshop Brushes

Sunday, October 16th, 2011

**Edited 12/15** Apparently, the original download didn’t include all of the brushes. It should be fixed now! Let me know if you’re still having trouble!!**

Sweater weather is here, and that means dreams of knitting designs start dancing around my head. Since I can’t knit as much as I used to because of my bum arm, I can at least knit with Photoshop!

For your virtual-knitting pleasure, I created some simple knit-stitch Adobe Photoshop brushes!

Download! (.zip 359 KB)

To create a canvas of lovely stockinette (that never curls!) simply do the following:

1. With either the single or the row of stitches, position your cursor at the upper left side of your canvas (or at desired start point).
2. While holding the shift key down, click and drag your cursor to the bottom of your canvas (or to desired stop point)
3. Repeat along the entire length of your imagined sweater-canvas.

For gorgeous fair-isle or stranded colorwork, simply use the “filled” knit brush in the color of your choice to go over individual stitches:

(Feel free to download this image and use it in your fall-and-winter projects. I’m imagining cute gift tags and Christmas cards…)

Guess what-  I LOVE comments! Let me know if you download them, and especially if you use them on your blog. I’d love to link to you!

The Fine Print:
These Adobe Photoshop brushes were created by Natalie Matz licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
In other words, please use and enjoy them, but *don’t* use them for profit or commercial use and please give me credit if you share or modify them!

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