Knitting the Sky
(new project)
Blimey it feels like I haven’t added a post for ages now, I got so used to posting every night but it proved unsustainable, just couldn’t keep it up!!
I’ve been pretty busy still, working on the Stephen Fry project, although it’s been stalled a little since I’m having to rely on the availability of friends willing to model.
In the meantime I’ve put a logical hat on and decided to continue with other projects not requiring models, hence Knitting the Sky. This idea was an extension of another I had from the summer (remember when it was warm enough to go out in a t-shirt?):~ take a photo of the sky everyday at the same time for a week then produce a piece/ something knitted in a matching shade from that day.
Off to a good start, I bought lots of wool in shades of blue and this one here matched quite nicely. I say matched, more of a similar shade because in reality that’s completely impossible.
Now I’m thinking looking at a swatch of plain knitting is enough to kill anyone with boredom. It has to be something. In celebration of randomness it came to me that knitting glasses or an eye patch would be interesting. So here are some first attempts. (I’m not convinced…) I’m visualising a self portrait photo against the sky with the glasses/ eye patch.
Then I thought perhaps a full head balaclava to match the sky. It wasn’t until I looked at this photo with the eye patch that I thought of using objects instead – an old school telephone for instance – so there would be a different object each day, knitted and photographed against the sky. Bingo.
Sometimes ideas are little more than instict, currently void of any intellectual depth. That’s OK.
