WEEK 9 - KNIT DE KNIT

The first half of this week was centred around sketchbook work, looking deeper into wools benefits in clothing and the importance of natural dyes. I started to look more in depth at my dip-dyed sample, and realised I was not as happy with it as I originally was when it was first created. Some areas of dye were misshapen, and not looking as blended as I intended it to look. After discussing this with my lecturer, I was introduced to a way of knitting called ‘knit-de-knit’ which describes the process of unravelling the yarn used within the sample onto a cone, then reknitting this back onto the knit machine. I thought that this was a great idea as it means there would be no wastage in the sample I had already knitted and dyed, and it could potentially crate a very interesting result.

I re-knitted the sample back onto the machine after unravelling it, making it bigger in size and adding more cream, undyed yarn to certain sections to make it longer. This ended up being very successful, it completely changed the sample in an amazing way. The colours that were harsh looking became perfectly blended when knitted, crating sections of transitioning colours that elevated the sample to a whole new look. I was happy with the results, and this allowed my sampling journey to evolve into a new way which involved using knit-de-knit.