Knitting Part 2 (Samples)

(Photographs and Samples produced by Myself)

      I am really happy with how these knitted samples have come out overall via the knit machine. As I said in the previous post, I would have liked to have worked with different colours, yet I still admire the minimal approach to these samples. Moreover, these photographs have given myself a real insight to how my final garments could actually end up looking like, hence this will inspire me for future design development and hopefully be a huge benefactor going towards my final garment(s). If I could have done anything differently, I would have liked to perhaps weaved different types of materials into my knit, but I did manage to use ribbon and mesh to represent colours and textures I have been working with previously. In addition to this, I want to photocopy these samples and perhaps use these on the stand to shape with and see what it would look like on a larger scale on a mannequin, plus this will enable me to work with different effects such as negative, black and white, sepia and many more, thus compensating my physical knitting challenges. Furthermore, I am now more prepared to begin to start constructing my accessory piece to go alongside my Final Major Project (FMP) as an experiment, but also something to show at the end of the project to show my diversity and skill at the assessment. There are many other ways that I can still use my samples to experiment with such as printing or painting on top of them, pullings them apart and much more, but for my time frame I am very pleased with what I have produced so far.

     After my accessory piece is completed, I really need to enhance my skills in regards to my design process because a few students in my class have shown theirs in our group tutorials, although it is not in my brief to start designing yet, so I am trying to not let it bother me so. In addition to this, coming away from the knit samples, I would like to dive back into looking at my print designs that I did previously in my FMP and it would be such a waste to not find some way to incorporate it back into something, whether that being more samples, designs or illustrations. Nonetheless, seeing how this accessory piece will turn out, I will see how well it works, but also see if I have time to develop on my work further so that I can get the best grade possible for the end of my FMP, "Living with Dementia".