Knitwear: Day 1

    I have been really looking forward to this workshop for a while now and today has proven to fulfil my hopes for this topic. In the morning we began by learning all the health and safety rules and then the general set up process for the knit machine, which seemed complicated at first but was very easy once we all got the hang of it! We also spent the day taking notes from what Bid said for future reference and it may come to use some time. These notes consisted of things such as, 1) KNIT: Always start at 0, *Carriage= Machine swiper, *Tension Knob= tight/loose knit, A= Out of action, B/C/D= Knit. These notes may sound complicated, but they all make sense now that I am aware of the machine and its capabilities. Moreover, we learnt many techniques such as a standard knit, honeycomb, lace, ladders and more. In particular, I really liked the ladders because it made the acrylic yarn look a lot more interesting with textures and shape, along with the honeycomb, which is a theme topic I am aspiring to follow on to. Below are some samples I made,

                                                                                       

     Overall, today was a very productive day in my opinion and personally I think I enjoy this a lot more compared to digital print so far because I like the rusticity of the knit samples and it also allows us to do whatever we want in our own way, as long as it still follows Bid's rules/examples. If I could change anything, it would defiantly be colour, but we didn't get to choose unfortunately, plus I would have liked to had experimented with newer techniques, although there were some people in the group who found it a bit more of a struggle, however I guess you can't like everything!