Knit

I have thoroughly enjoyed doing "knit" for my second workshop. At the start I didn’t really get the hang of it, things just kept going wrong and breaking off. To overcome this I spent a lot of time in the knit room to improve on my skills and eventually got it right. I have done several knit samples over the four weeks, some for my technical file and some just for practice. After learning the techniques I wanted to expand and see how I could link knit with my own project. I felt this was a struggle at the start as knit wasn’t really what I wanted to do as my second workshop. I would have preferred machine embroidery as that would have linked better but I feel after a while I was able to link the knits in. I did this by looking at distressing the knits in a purposeful way which would link in with the distressing I have done with my photographs and samples in my sketchbooks. I also started to e-wrap to build up threads to create a textured surface. I have used a variety of colours and threads, some worked well but some didn’t as they don’t really connect to my project. I then started to build up layers and use a variety of threads and tensions in one sample. I feel these worked well and really show how I’m interpreting my project in to my knits. They look very manipulated and distressed and I have used several techniques combined together. I also started thinking about how I could bring the idea of a journey, linking back to my project of following a journey through Ian Brown's life by trying to create maps of threads, colours and tensions.

        Building up layers of yarns and using different strengths,

tensions and

techniques to create layered samples.