Knit. Technical Block 4.

Knit was the last of my technical blocks, I spent two weeks of handknitting but mostly machine knitting.

I was excited to try out the knit machines, when I first used one on the second day I found it really confusing and abit of a pain.

I thought getting to grips with it would be extremely difficult and I didn't feel completely safe with it. 

I was determined to understand the process involved with it so I spent most days all day on the machine working it out. 

I used my “pop-up” drawings as reference for my final colour scheme. 

After understanding the machines, you could make your knits more and more complex by using different methods such as the “hold” and the laddering technique. At first I think I found the techniques very faffy but once you have them under my belt its so much easier to work my knitting into the shape and feel I wanted. 

I became to be more experimental with my knit, with the use of the techniques it slowly became more and more fine arty. I liked that about this technical block it pushed me and challenged me. 

I liked the way that Knit made me look at my textiles in a completely different way, it opened my mind to the way knit works and how I can mold and shape textiles.

I believe that Knit challenged me which I didnt expect. It pushed me and taught me to have patience and to take time with textiles.