Knitting is unusual, but beautiful. Creative ideas for needlework

Beautiful knitted things are loved by many. The most ardent fans are trained in knitting and are engaged in making clothes, interior items and decor themselves. However, after a stormy ecstasy from the first sweaters, dresses, blouses and hats, disappointment and even boredom often occur.

Favorite patterns do not please, and all models seem ordinary and unoriginal. As it is good, that for the masters owning a crochet and spokes, practically there are no restrictions in creativity!

You can manifest your personal vision in many ways:

• Apply familiar patterns in a completely different aspect.
• Combine different types of materials and yarn.
• Find or come up with unusual knitting techniques.
• To apply for work tools or objects that have never been used before.

What is creativity, and with which sauce it is served

The word "creative" is translated from English as "creativity". That is, so it is necessary to call something created (created) by man. By and large, both brand-new ideas and a fresh mix of familiar elements are creative.

When it comes to knitting, it is difficult to find anything completely new, because the basic elements remain the same: the front and back loops, the stitches with the crochet and without. But the original cut of clothes, the use of interesting materials and the game with a scale of canvases - this is all modern knitting.

Unusual ideas are sometimes so amazing that it becomes interesting how the designer came to his discovery. For example, who first thought of tying a tree? And for what? Probably out of love for the beautiful.

Beautiful knitted things, completely duplicating other models, are not creative. But changing the cut, applying other schemes and adding your own raisin makes the process of copying into creative creation.

Minimum scale: knitted toys

Amusing little soft toys, made by crochet or knitting needles, became very popular. This knitting, unusual and very fun, takes a little time and does not require large stocks of yarn. The main thing here is the careful execution of all elements (loops and posts), as well as compliance with geometric accuracy.

Such unusual, creative crochet and knitting crochet has been called "amigurumi". However, more often this term is only called toys, created with the help of a hook.

A distinctive feature of the amigurumi technique was a touching expression of faces and muzzles of ready-made toys. They cool the mood, so they are often used as gifts.

Loops size XXL

In recent years, popularity has acquired a rather specific kind of knitting - working with very thick, even, untwisted yarn. Initially used Merino wool, but this thread is very expensive. Now many manufacturers of needlework materials offer a wide range of different yarns. For example, sheep wool with cotton or acrylic, as well as merino wool with impurities for cheaper prices.

Such knitting is unusual, quite fast and extremely motivates for further work.

Most often of such thick threads knit voluminous caps, scarves, snuffs and blankets. Craftsmen choose products with a simple cut (usually rectangular), because the reduction of loops of this scale looks sloppy.

Such unusual knitting does not require any complicated patterns, rather a stocking.

Interesting jacquards

Who would have thought how varied and original could be jacquard patterns! The history of this technique is several hundred years old, but new approaches to its implementation are constantly emerging.

Extremely interesting look jacquards associated with melange yarn. Even though the ornaments look the most traditional way, this knitting is unusual and original due to the color scale. To form the pattern of the masters, a sectional dyeing material with very long color transition areas is selected. For example, there is such a yarn, where the areas, painted with a certain color, are several tens of meters. As a result, in the finished product - a very smooth and beautiful transition from one color to another.

A single-colored yarn of suitable color or another melange thread can be used as a background. Traditionally, the background is knitted in a darker color, and the ornaments make it lighter.

Caps, hats and caps

Wishing to entertain themselves and their loved ones, craftsmen wielding crochets and knitting needles create creative and unimaginable headgear. The variety of funny hats strikes the most daring imagination:

• Different kinds of helmets.
• Caps with beards.
• Gas masks.
• Wigs made of yarn.
• Caps stylized for food (muffins, hamburger, chicken leg).

This knitting is unusual in terms of people who have a traditional and conservative view of knitting. Of course, these hats are not worn for a hike to work, they are used for photo sessions or as original gifts.

Schemes are developed not only by bored masters, but also by designers who wish to get fame in social networks. First of all, they are betting on the creativity and unusualness of their models.

Фриформ - "magic" crochet technique

In search of inspiration and new ideas, masters often invent completely new approaches and techniques. The peak of knitting art can be called a technique such as freform.

Its feature is that the canvas is made up of individual motifs. Unlike Irish lace or just a patterned pattern, the motifs of the freeform have the following characteristics:

• High density. Often the canvas is so solid that it is suitable for making a coat.
• Non-standard form. There are no rectangular, triangular or hexagonal fragments. Usually for the freeform knit motifs with round outlines, curls and asymmetrical projections.
• The presence of volumetric elements. Virtually always used curvy, postal and twisted columns, as well as voluminous scars and lines, laid over the finished fabric.

Freeform is suitable for making clothes, accessories and interior items.

Among the craftsmen, the models of cardigans and coats, made up of color motives in such a way as to obtain a gradient transition, gained popularity. Usually, darker fragments are placed below, and the motives are lighter placed above. In the most contrasting models, you can observe the transition from a rather dark color (the lower edge of the back and shelves) to a very light (shoulder line, collar).

Variety of materials

Creative masters often connect unusual crochet with knitting needles. Also, quite often they are combined with fragments of tissue and skin.

As accessories, metal, wooden and plastic buckles, rings, clips, chains, buttons, buttons and other items are used.

Many designers combine their passion for knitting with love for making costume jewelry. So knitted beads, necklaces, brooches, hairpins and other ornaments are born.

Knitted costume jewelry can be large and created in the style of "folk" or they can be quite elegant accessories that are quite capable of decorating an evening outfit.

Knitted items are combined with beads made of wood, plastic, metal, glass, with precious stones and Austrian crystals.

Freedom of thought is the main quality of a creative designer

Many knitters, considering photos of original objects created with the help of a hook or spokes, sigh heavily and think that they can not do anything like that. However, such work does not require compliance with any rules and can not be subject to stringent requirements.

The beauty of creativity is precisely to create something that did not exist before. Therefore, do not get upset because of the inability to knit hats. Today, the price is individuality, so maybe you need to think about your own unusual bags, mittens or such slippers that no one has ever seen before.