Personal Project:
Knitting a Scarf:

Over the last two weeks (assessment week and feedback week) we were advised to visit museums and art galleries, delve in to the library's art-film collection and just try to collect inspiration. I wanted to also use this independent time to practice drawing and techniques for making. I am quite a constructive designer, so, whilst deciding on the Knit option for workshop sign up, I thought I would practice what I already can do, which is hand knit. Every Winter for the past 3 years I have knitted at least one scarf, be it for myself, or a friend and I enjoy doing so as a little personal project, which can be quite therapeutic.

I can do basic hand- knitting and purling so I try to use these techniques in an aesthetic way, in the past I have knitted squares and simple patterns in to scarves, this time I decided to add stripes using the purling technique:

I am using a 50% Wool/50% Acrylic, chunky yarn, so it will be soft and hopefully quite big. I am looking forward to wearing it over Christmas, and to start the Knit Workshop to learn new techniques and maybe to produce something more diverse than a scarf!