Knitting the sky – Knitted Week
I’ve taken a photo of the sky every morning since Monday with the intention of recreating the mood and colour of the sky through the medium of knitting. I’m not a knitter but it’s proved to be an eye opener. I started off with the bog standard beginner’s knitting stitch but now I want more and have found myself browsing knitting sites searching for new stitches.
Each knitted piece will belong to a frame and I’m looking at displaying them like this… which is to say that I want to mimic the way people hang frames in their home. The way people arrange and display their possessions in their home space is fascinating to me and something I looked at breifly for my MA. I will have to revisit some of the research to help contextualise this project, perhaps it will push it in a new direction.
I miss uni, there was always someone around to give you a hand! I attempted to hang the frame high enough to get a photo of it against the day’s sky but it proved virtually impossible and so frustrating. That’s my guttering you can see top right corner.
It’s a bit of a challenge to produce a piece of knitting each day but I’m getting there. I can visualise what this project will look like when it’s finished; homespun, bland and mundane.
