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So in my class at uni we had to do self portraits. I decided to knit mine..so I dyed a whole bunch of white wool in different colours (everything has to have colours!) and then sorted it by value - dark, mid, light mid and light. 

Then I drew a picture of me peering down on a mirror, and charted the pattern. Blue is dark, red is mid, yellow is light mid and white is light.

My face stops where my scarf was. I wasn't sure whether I'd have time to knit the scarf so I turned the chart upside down and knitted from the top of my head down my face.

This is what I ended up with.

It's knitted using fairisle, but I did the fair isle pretty badly so the gods of Fair Isle would be down on me like a ton of bricks..

The colour variations are because I'd pick a light tone, a dark tone, mid and light mid, and I'd change colours whenever I ran out of that colour/OR I got bored of it. I had heaps of that pale apple green but I got sick of it after a while. I also couldn't be bothered knitting the scarf hence the brown and blue bands at the bottom.

My parents tell me it looks better further away. Over all, I'm pretty pleased with what I've done since I only had one day to do it in!

(Recycled food colouring dyed yarn..not sure what ply..um..8 ply? 4mm needles, it distorts a bit but roughly it's about 11.5cm wide by 18.5cm)

At university we've been doing textile arts (seeing as I do a textiles course) and we are focusing on knitting and crochet. I am not warming to crochet but seeing as I am already a reasonably competent knitter with a little fair isle experience, I've been trying to knit pictures.

I'm going to knit my self portrait tomorrow (with luck) but this is a little practice piece, it took a couple of hours from drawing the chart to casting off the knitting. It's about 10.5cm by 13cm, and it's a cow skull.

Needless to see it's not terribly easy to knit an image, and the skull got a bit..lost..so hopefully the self portrait will be better!