{"id":293,"date":"2016-07-31T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2016-07-31T13:50:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T17:50:21","slug":"artrage-for-fibre-project-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/31\/artrage-for-fibre-project-design\/","title":{"rendered":"ArtRage for Fibre Project Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

Skilled knitters around the globe — like those in Shetland and Iceland — are able to create beautiful, intricate, colourful masterpieces of knitting without referring to patterns and plans.<\/p>\n

I have no such skill, and periodically find myself in a place where I need to have some idea of what alternative approaches to colour and pattern might produce, without actually knitting an entire yoke or sweater or what have you.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, I try sketching.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_8344-small\"<\/a> \"IMG_8349-small\"<\/a> \"IMG_8351-small\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But that can get cumbersome for trying many different options — such as when you’re half way through sketching one idea and an entirely different thought comes to the fore.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been playing around with ArtRage<\/a> on the iPad \u2014 it\u2019s a fun art app, which lets you play with different types of tools. With pressure-sensitivity, you can get some interesting effects with water colours and pencils.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

So, when I reached the limit of what paper sketching could do for me when designing a baby blanket, recently, I turned to the multi-layer tools of ArtRage to start considering options quickly.\u00a0\u00a0 Here you can see it with the photo of a partially-completed project in the background, and tracer lines sketching out the web of segments.\u00a0 Each of the segments created a bounded area that I could “fill” with different colours to easily check out options.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"IMG_0130-small\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The layering thing is actually important.\u00a0 The popop menu in the image below lets you select which layers are visible at any given time — turning on or off the tracer lines, for example, or different options for different parts of the colour patterning.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0131-small\"<\/a><\/p>\n

From there, I played with a bunch of different options for how much purple banding (asymmetric?\u00a0 Thick?\u00a0 Thin?\u00a0 On the outside?\u00a0 As an inner ring?)<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0134-small\"<\/a> \"IMG_0126-small\"<\/a> \"IMG_0124-small\"<\/a> \"IMG_0122-small\"<\/a> \"IMG_0121-small\"<\/a> \"IMG_0120-small\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It was easy, and it helped me visualize where I wanted to go.\u00a0 Which,\u00a0 in the end, was here:<\/p>\n

\"IMG_8457-small\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That was the Dresden Plate Crochet Baby Blank project<\/a> — click through to read more about the actual project on the gallery page!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Skilled knitters around the globe — like those in Shetland and Iceland — are able to create beautiful, intricate, colourful masterpieces of knitting without referring to patterns and plans. I have no such skill, and periodically find myself in a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crochet","category-design","category-fibre"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0130-small.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7dQdt-4J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}