Blue Inspiration

My inspiration for this project is waves and breaking water. Initially I dyed my yarns and I thought that the tones of blue I had created reminded me very much of the sea. I will be including shades of white, cream and silver into my colour palette which works perfectly with the waves idea. From looking at the structure and patterns of different waves I have realised that they are all different and completely at random. I shall therefore try to avoid repeating myself with techniques and colour blocks when doing my samples so that they relate better to my inspiration. I am looking forward to trying out different techniques to try and create the different wave themed samples I am hoping to achieve. 

Blue Project

Dying Final Yarns

I have been dying my final yarns that I will use for the 6 samples I need to produce as part of my Blue project. I have chosen to use the two processes of Indigo dying and Acid dying. I enjoyed using Indigo dying as I found that I could get some really nice results in quite a short amount of time. Using the Acid dying technique I managed to achieve some really lovely colours that I was pleased with.

My inspiration for this project has been waves and I think I will be able to replicate this theme well through my samples, as the colours that I have produced lend themselves really well to the colours associated with water and breaking waves. I will also be mixing silver, white and cream in with my blue yarns to enhance the effect further.

Latest Project - Blue

Yarn Dyeing

This week was the first week of my new project which focuses on the colour blue. As a knitter, we are required to dye our own yarns which we will come to use later on in the project. This week saw me experimenting with different types of yarn and dye to find a suitable combination to use.

I'm not particularly comfortable with being in the print room and dyeing but it turned out to be much more enjoyable than I initially thought that it would be. It was a good experience and the group shared ideas and I got some interesting results from my experiments.  Below are some photos of the day.

The skeins of yarn I made ready to be dyed.

 All of the skeins the group made to be dyed split up into yarn types - wools, cottons, silks, polyester etc..

On the left I am using navy acid dye and on the right Karen is washing out yarns.

Above is Karen indigo dyeing and on the right is Nicole using procion dye.

I wanted a dip dye effect so here I am using procion dye and dipping half and half into different shades.

Here are some of the different results we all got from this workshop.

 On the right are all my yarns that I bought and dyed.

I am hoping to write some more blog posts in the future to show some of the further steps of this project.

Sam