Heart in Circle

It all started with an abstract concept dishcloth.  I had chosen the stitch pattern and knitting techniques, and that included illusion / shadow knitting.

Now, my experience in illusion knitting was just knitting up a scaredy cat dishcloth following a free pattern on Ravelry.  At the time, the link between the knit and purl combo and the pattern it created was not there.

So in order to make my dishcloth creation reality, I went and tried learning illusion knitting.  After watching a video on illusion knitting, and slept on it for a night, I went and wrote up the heart pattern from scratch.  Got it in my second trial :) It is heart in a rectangle.  I wrote down the pattern for my own interest, but since there are so many heart in rectangle illusion knitting patterns, free or paid, out there. I will not join in the circus lol

And then ambition rose, and naturally tried my hand on some other images.  Spade, club and diamond came to mind immediately.  Once I made up the spade, I then relooked at the heart one.  After a little research on illusion knitting and dishcloth, I find that illusion knitting patterns for dishcloth / coaster are usually in square or rectangle.  So I think it will make a contribution to the knitting pattern world to write and publish illusion knitting (no matter how simple the pattern is, things always start small) outside of the square and rectangle, and there came the Heart in Circle.

Heart in Circle is the first of the four (4) patterns in the collection, Furballs' Deck of Cards.  The illusion heart is centre in a flat knitted disc to make a medium size coaster good for beer mug or bowl for snack during a friendly card game.  It does not take a lot of yarns to make and good to use up those small yarn balls left with big projects.

Heart in Circle is now available in my Ravelry store.

Happy knitting :)