Knitted Art

I've always been a big fan of creating inspiration myself. I find if the inspiration is created by you, the work has a much more personal touch. I began laying some of my yarn around trees and taking photographs. I used photoshop to mirror some of the images. I think they turned out really well. I want to take this idea of distorting knit and adding curves and organic lines. Knit can sometimes come across as being stripey and structured so I want to break this and experiment with how I can play about with this.

Knit is anything but ordinary..

So to take my ideas further I starting to distress my knitwear as you would a pair of jeans. I am knitting with a denim yarn which has the same properties as a pair of jeans ( only denim is typically woven and I am doing the opposite by knitting with it). The samples have had everything done to them you would do to denim, i.e bleaching, sanding etc. I took these images at Formby incorporating my samples with my inspiration and I am really happy with the result.