Our Struggle With Knitting...

I had a new admiration of all knitters after our two week long knitwear project- I did not realise how time consuming and hard knitting really is! I had never tried knitting before so it was a totally new skill to me, and so I had to start right at the bottom. I managed to get the basic stitch, however at the end of each row my knitting kept gaining a couple or stitches each time which left me with a very oddly shaped panel at the end! However I persevered and finally managed to get the hang of hand knitting as well as some machine knitting too. In the end I really enjoyed the knitwear project which was based on fragile forms. I chose to focus on natural forms such as frozen cobwebs and lace linchen which lent themselves beautifully to really fine knitwear. I particularly enjoyed machine knitting and experimenting with the shapes and structures that could be created with this. I kept all my samples in a sketchbook along with my contextual research and final knitwear designs at the end...

...I had a bit of trouble closing my sketchbook at the end though!