Rhian Bell- A little bit of Knit

I wanted to bring some sort of workshop into my project. I started looking at knit again and started thinking about how I could combine it in to my work. I started to explore colours of threads I wanted to use to relate to my initial ideas; I also did some composition ideas that I might work with. I created these knit samples using a variety of techniques to reflect my idea of hidden things, adding threads into the knits using E-wrapping. I felt these worked well as they are textured and give a sense of something being explored and hidden. The sense of uncovering something...

I started to explore how I could manipulate the shape of the knits twisting, screwing and curling them up to look more textured and interesting.

Following on from last week’s tutorial I have started to wrap knits around balls of polystyrene to make the knits appear looser and more textured.

I think they have worked well.