Illusion knitting

So right now I'm really into a type of knitting I recently discovered called Illusion Knitting. Illusion Knitting is very simple to do, combining knit and purl stitches to make a design that can be seen from an angle, but not from straight above. The best instructions I've found are by Steve Plummer and Pat Ashforth at Wooly Thoughts.  They describe it as knitting in ridges, each line on a pattern being a ridge (two rows of knitting), one light and one dark. I started with something totally simple and made my own pattern of paw prints. I took this pattern:

I'm a little ambitious, what can I say, and with never having attempted illusion knitting before, I decided to try my hand at a baby blanket. To make this pattern work for the illusion I took each row and worked a light and a dark ridge in that pattern. Every right side row is a knit row so the chart is the wrong side, worked left to right. So say the first ridge would look like

Row 1: k27

Row 2: k9, p9, k9

The second ridge:

Row 3: k27

Row 4: p9, k9, p9

And so on till you worked the pattern. Now with my blanket the paw print pattern is staggered for the length. My blanket ended up being 31" x 35", but I really liked the finished product. I knitted it on US 7 needles with worsted weight yarn. I used yellow and white.

So from the top, you can barely make out the pattern:

On an angle though....

From the back, you can sort of see the pattern as well:

I'm pretty proud of it though.

So I figured I'd try something a little more complicated. If you look on Wooly Thoughts website, they have done some pretty amazing works of art with this illusion knitting. So I started following their instructions using a program called Inkscape to create a grid and pattern, but it got a little confusing so I emailed them. Steve is super helpful and got me started with my pattern. He offered to check it out as often as I wanted to help with any corrections that may need to be done. Just a sneak peek at this one, we took this monkey to make the pattern: