A Good Ol' Yarn

A Good Ol' Yarn

Such a lovely textile shot and it sums me up beautifully, I feel. A neutral colour palette highlighted with flashed of bright fashion colours. The variation is yarn weight and texture is what got me interested and keeps me interested in knit. I feel the image is poignant to me as a designer and mimics my organised chaotic thoughts, work process and approach.

These are some of the yarns that I have experimented with for my Design Project #2 'Spontaneous Optimism'. The slubbed alpaca yarns were far from ideal for the domestic knitting machine standard gauge so I am going to have to develop a hand knitting project to use them up- that beanie that has been in the thought process for months now but hasn't really developed further. Perhaps a summer project while I sit on my dad's balcony listening to the waves crashing on the sandy shore with a cold wine or chilled cider close at hand. I am so excited to have some well deserved down time......a little off topic....

Back to the images above...... I wanted to experiment with various yarn types and techniques that were not overly complicated but extremely effective in the outcome. Slubbed yarns have been in my vision for a while, I love the way a simple stitch becomes another entity through the use of a dimensional varying yarn. The yarn is just soooo tactile while the colours are a result of the natural fibre of alpaca and ties beautifully back to my staple colour palette. I have had to move on from these yarns for the purpose of this project (as I said the machine did not like them). So I have worked with a couple of slubbed linen blends that also given an interesting result yet the machine can handle the yarn effectively. 

More to come on the process and development of this project.