Knit!!

Handknitting with Liz!

 

The day began with an introduction to an array of hand knit samples by previous students and their very colourful boards! I quite like the board below because it evokes such a joyful and exciting mood.

 

 

 

Liz mentioned all the terms and the lanuage involved with knit. The class took notes. It then continued by showing us the variety of swatches possible to make with precious students work. Examples included jersey yarn ( see below), shredded yarn and recycled yarn.

 Our first swatch to make was called was the fancy knit which included extra pieces of fabric knotted onto the yarn to create a textured swatch.

I wanted to experiment with recycled yarns so I tried knitting with metal sponges by breaking them apart and stretching them out so that they were long and stringy like yarn.

We all had to take part in creating a multi-coloured stranded yarn from the huge selection of yarns in the knit room. We were asked to choose an image from our contextual notebook to use as an interesting colour story and to base our chosen coloured yarns from.
This was harder and more time consuming compared to what it seemed to be at first glance.

After lunch, we made felt yarns from a beautiful merino wool. I wanted to add colour to mine so I added a shredded green chiffon ribbon and small pieces of wool.