Knitwear Assesment!

Today we set up our knitwear for assesment. It was alot of hardwork but I was really happy with my outcome. For my main piece, I first made an ombre pink shawl, with wide stitching and fringing. I experimented with a variety of yarns: I shredded a white t-shirt and soaked it in berry tea (which gave the yarn a dusty pink color); used white netting and bought yarn; made a colour story based on the artwork of Australian installation artists 'Pip and Pop'; and finally I made my own arn. I put my newly aquired felting skills to use and added some watered down poster paints to the wool before felting it. Then whilst it was being felted, the colours ran sublty into each other and into the wool, creating a cool tie-dyed yarn. From the coloured yarn (and also some white netting) I made a little neckpiece to add to my display.