Sometimes I like to knit not the object itself, but just the air around it.
Below is a ‘treeless’ rendering (left side) of the tree on the right. I avoided knitting the branches, and just knit the shapes around them (much as possible).
The two bellow are done with a similar idea, treating the shapes as abstract and mixing the negative and positive images:
Back to the top of the page, these are 2 scarves with Meher Baba’s signature:
I used 2 colors, one for the shapes created below the signature, and one for ‘the air above it’. This is about how His signature cuts the space. The scarf starts with the M itself as part of the inc.
Picture Knitting 