Knitted Month no. 2
I’m posting this way after the event, but in March I completed the second ‘Knitted Month’ – maybe this is going to become a series. Still working on the idea of making and unmaking an object at the same time, this time with more of the sense of passing time, I think.
For this one, on the first day of the month I knitted one row. On the second day I unravelled that row, reknitted it, and knitted a second one. On the third day I unravelled those two rows, knitted three and so on. And I photographed it each day.
In one way the difference each day is much more obvious – the knitting grows by a row each day. But in another way, it’s more subtle – the changes in the yarn and the shape of the object are less marked because each day new yarn is being added (though less and less each day, as the yarn stretches – by the end I was only using a tiny bit of new yarn as I cast off the last row).
I’m planning the next one now, for May or July – if and when I do more, they will all be done in 31-day months, and all on the same format of a block of 31 stitches x 31 rows (eventually). May is quite a busy time for me, so I might leave it until July.
