LAST CRIT

Had the last crit of the year today... presentations all day. All that is left of first year is choosing our pathway and having a nose around the degree show then its back for 4 months of total boredom!! Working and lots of play! Determined not to have a dull summer!! 

MARMITE

 Also welcome to the newest member of the family Marmite. Cuddliest cat ever!

IM STILL HERE...

It has been so long since I have been on here that everything seems to have become more posh and modern... End of year is literally at the doorstep. Cannot believe I have completed my first year. Onto our final project at the moment Surface Design. I am loving it a lot. Life is stressful same old same old really. I am going to post to you a photo of my wall which sadly was taken down yesterday ready for the mass clear out of the red shed for the degree show. EXCITING STUFF!! See if you can spot the theme.. We have to choose our pathway and to be honest with you I always thought I was print but because print at Bucks seems to be more geared towards fashion, I am thinking I am now more surface inspired. It really has been such a learning curve, learnt a lot about myself and my work. I cannot wait to start second year and have the journey all over again.

It has been a month!

This is my 100th post on my blog, and I feel that it should be a happy occasion but I really do not have anything that fun or exciting to report. It is nearly hand in for the knit project (thank the lord) its not that I have not enjoyed learning the new skills etc, its more the fact that the brief was so mind numbingly boring that I did not want to do it. But I have a few things to upload and show you. I have not blogged in a month and I actually do feel terrible so a huge sorry  to my blog for being say here all alone. Back to the photos of knitting.... here you go.

A smaller version of one of my final pieces.

Trying out different techniques.

Exploratory stage experimenting with hooking up into a triangle, though when steamed it looked silly so didn't bother doing it again.

e wrapping triangles in a pattern again just experimenting.

I still want one of these...

I spy a birthday present for me?

YAY

I HAVE FINISHED MY KNIT TECHNICAL FOLDER!!! I CAN NOW KNIT STUFF. 

WEEK OFF UNI WHAT MORE COULD I WANT?

It Has Just Dawned On Me!

I'M 20 TWO WEEKS TODAY... BYE BYE TEENAGE YEARS!

More Knitting

Today I learnt how to do some points in my knitting to make triangles but I forgot to take a picture and I also learnt how to make bobbles and this thing called a dragons mouth basically creating a triangular 3D shape in the knit. I am also very ill been struck down with some scabby flu thing so I am extra pleased I managed to concentrate!

The bobbles....

Mini and Large Dragons mouth thing ....

More Knit Techniques

E Wrapping with a different yarn!

I am still here.

 Been too long once again but I was just avoiding my terrible print project. Never ever thought I could hate print but it just goes to show things do change. I'm sure if I gave it another go it would all go a lot better. I felt like I had never printed before the inks we had to mix up were horrid!!! But I did enjoy doing the devore and bleach prints. So I am now onto the knit project using a single bed knitting machine. It is all very confusing and taking me a lot of time to work out but I am getting there slowly and surely. We have been given a designer and a period of time in which to research and produce some samples of knit around about a4 size using a wide range of techniques and materials should be challenging but at the moment I am liking this knitting business.

First ever bit of knitting!!!! I was pretty excited I later changed colour and made it striped!

Creating things called lace holes. Basically making little holes in the knit.

But I forgot one key thing that happened in Wycombe SNOW!