Creative Textiles

Bit of relief today from the tedium I mean learning of colour with some KNITTING!
Sarah brought in boxes of colour themed bags of yarn and we all dipped in to select some to knit samples for our section on exploring colour!

I've opted for safety of green, red and purple! but did rather cast an envious eye on neighbouring Kim's yummy SCRUMMY reds, oranges and hot pinks and yellows!! Interestingly she knitted her swatches on HUGE needles and plans to weave colours in between - I expect she'll end up with something glorious and we'll all be jealous!! I'm afraid mine is uniform neat stripes of colour however I'm quite pleased as I've learned a neat way of weaving in a new colour and of losing the tail end of the previous colour which I expect I shall have forgotten about by tomorrow!!

A delicious cushion packed with different knitting techniques for decorative effects provided inspiration for those most in need (me!) and I was interested to find out you can knit pintucks! Having spent the week experimenting with pintucks on the sewing machine and stitching them down in alternate waves for visual interestI was interested in learning how this is affected with yarn and needles! (quite easily, as it happens!).

We have to complete our paperwork and are instructed to do our homework as its likely the Centre Manager will be checking up on our tutor, I mean us! As we don't want to get Sarah into trouble we've promised to do this for next Monday!

In preparation for our main piece of work I casually mentioned a leaning toward a landscape! and one of our class kindly brought in their piece and all the project work and files for it to share! I was amazed at how effective Jackie's piece was and I'm completely overwhelmed now at the thought of all that creativity and rather wish I'd mentioned how I'd always wanted to knit a cabled cushion cover!! (or a tea pot cosy!) gulp! I might have to discover a sudden interest in a tree and stick to that! (at least with brown not being officially ON the colour wheel I could add ANY shade of green!?). (OR I could do a seascape? all BLUE? and call it miles from nowhere?).

HOMEWORK for this week will be to knit some colour samples and complete the paperwork!