Fair Isle Pattern

Printable Knitting Pattern: warm every room of your house

Fair Isle, Lopapeysa and all Knitting patterns have always fascinated me. The repetitiveness and modularity of this type of work encapsulates all the rules of good design: working within a cage of rigid rules with enormous mastery.

For this and much more trivially because I love the style I propose a series of printable posters with this theme. From classic Nordic Icelandic and Scandinavian patterns to more thematic motifs. Hearts, ideal for a romantic gift, the great classics of Renaissance painting (I am Tuscan and certain images resonate in my head every time I approach a new theme) by Leonardo and Michelangelo. And cats that are a pet peeve of mine.

A kind of Pixel Art revised with the classic “v” embroidery work. I worked these files with Figma. It has a very spartan vector handling and perhaps because of that it is the easiest application for working on simple and very repetitive patterns. A simple 10×10 pixel inverted V with a space of 1 pixel apart. I decided to work by columns each with horizontal rows of about ten elements. I confess that it takes a long time to complete the work, a long time (a lot of time for the figurative versions). But once completed the result for me is fantastic. Figma proves unbeatable in color management: by grouping a series of vectors it is very easy to change the colors by selecting the group directly, and this helps so much with creative freedom. Once you finish the painstaking work of construction you have a lot of fun playing with the colors–Figma with coloring is really great.

Once I created the vector file, I saved it as an SVG and put it into format with Affinity Designer.

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