Development_ week six

During this weeks tutorial we discussed ways to develop my samples. My work contains a lot of diamond and hexagon shapes which I could make more interesting by playing with the scale and using my drawings to consider composition. I don't want all my samples to look to regular and constrained.

I also felt I needed to refresh some of my ideas so I went back to earlier research to pick out qualities to work with and make sure I am communicating what's in my sketchbook.

This sample is inspired by seed pods, I like the rhythm in the repeat and I think my dip dyed yarn works well in the small bursts. I had envisaged this to be more exaggerated, re- doing this, playing with the scale will make a bigger impact.

The idea for this came from a drawing of shells I did, with cut and curled paper. I have been trying to recreate it with knit and think I have finally found a way to reflect the qualities; by knitting sections on hold then casting off and joining them into the main knit. I want to explore scale and yarn choice here to refine the idea.

I combined e-wrapping with ladders in this sample to increase the contrast between weight. Using a paper yarn also gave the piece structure, I tried to create a sense of movement with the colour up the sample. I think with a bit more development, this would make a good final sample.

I am still working on my colour in order to connect my samples so that they work together as a collection. I need to think about where to apply colour in each sample to compliment the shapes and detail. Going into next week I feel I have a variety of ideas to start developing into a final collection and will work on combining and refining them.