Knitting...

In my previous post I said I was going to create some knitted pieces, I found it interesting to do as rather than look at my images for inspiration I just looked at my linear drawings and created pieces that only had small elements of 'the city'. I had a breakthrough in my project during my time knitting, because of the confusion I have been experiencing in terms of what I was 'supposed' to be doing (relating my work to 175 or the city) I decided that I was going to use my initial research/work from the beach and my development of looking at the city as a contrasting concept. To show this I made my knitted pieces with natural looking yarns and I then physically created patterns and included more structured shapes within my samples.

Knit sample 1.

Knit sample 2.

Knit sample 3.

Knit sample 4.

I have selected these four samples to show the variation in what I did with the knit machine, as well as machine knit I did some samples by hand which I felt went really well as I was more confident in trying to manipulate the pieces.

This is one of my first hand knit samples, I feel that the shells have a really lovely effect and I think that to contrast this with samples showing more linear elements from the city could be really interesting.