Evaluation Of Origins Unit

I think that in this project I have made strong connections between my research (drawing etc.) and my final samples. I have studied the shapes and forms in my research and tried to translate them through knit and weave. I have translated the colours (tones and shades) and have also tried to keep the textures in my drawings, but through varied yarns. The research aspect of this project has also been strongly developed through this project with drawings, photographs and artist inspiration.

I created a range of drawings, including collages, in this particular drawing below I began looking at bark and the textures and shapes within it – I did a series of these drawings which I found to be successful in that it gave me inspiration on how to translate the shapes and textures through yarns and into knit and weave.

In this project I think that my drawings have developed more – I made a series of detailed drawings using a range of media, but I think that in future projects that I would like to push myself further and use a range of scale – push the boundaries and work out of my sketchbook. the possibilities of scale are endless.

 

In this project I have learnt that I have a ‘knack’ for the knitting machines and once the techniques were learnt I found it very easy to push these techniques further – mixing techniques, yarns, colours and translating my research into the knit samples. I enjoyed knit mor than weave as I found weave quite restricting.

 In this project, I have been greatly influenced through my contextualising practice research, throughout this project I have been thinking of ‘what is making?’ and is what I am doing making? Is the development process making? These questions have helped me push my work further.

This project I think that I have managed my time well in that I have met all my deadlines – with all work finished at what I believe to be a excellent standard, although I do think I could have put more time in to push my work further. I think that I used my workshop time very well as I was in the workshop – booked on a machine nearly every day.

 

Knit

 

When starting knit I was anxious. I had never used a knitting machine before and did not know what to expect.

On learning how to use the domestic knitting machines, I was excited to start to translate my ideas and research into the knit. I first decided that the colours on my Weave did not translate the colours on my mood board very well, therefore I began to search for yarns that I thought would suit my colour scheme and what would make my knit sample come alive.

 

The first process was to learn all the knit techniques, I learnt, plain knit, cast on/off, ladders, lace holes, partial knit, hook up and how to use the punch cards.

after reflecting on these techniques I have decided to use the plain knit, partial knit and hook up techniques as I feel they best reflect the shapes and forms in my research.

 

I can now begin to mix my chosen techniques and colours together.

 

 

 

In this sample I have used the partial knit and hook-up effects, using the browns and green as a base I added whispers of bright colours (to the right proportions on my yarn wrap), I think the techniques create a interesting textured surface and the bright colours lift the dark colours up. On reflection I would add more hook-ups and slightly more bright colours.

 

 

This sample is made of the hook-up and partial knit techniques. i have used a large variation of thick and fine yarns. Looking at this sample know, i feel that it needs more bright colours, maybe some pink? and the lighter green, as if the yellow wasn't there, the sample would look dull and have a muddy effect.

 

 

 

Yarn Bombing

 

After an introduction to knit, I became very interested in yarn bombing. Yarn bombing is a type of 'knitting grafitti'. People who are the yarn bombers knit around public objects - from a bus to a tree! I am particularly interested in the yarn bombing around trees and nature.

 

Below are examples of a typical yarn bombing on a tree.

 

 

 

 

I  find tree bombing particularly interesting to me as my knit will have a strong connection with trees/bark and it makes me wonder what possibilities there could be with yarn bombing, could it be a types of reflective textured knit wrapped round the tree? how would my knit look against the bark of a tree?