As part of this final unit I wanted to experiment dyeing my had spun yarn, felting of the yarn during the process was an issue with one particular batch of yarn , initially I thought this would make the yarn unsuitable but it created an amazing structural piece. I spun a second batch…
Wearable hugs
I wanted to continue to develop my spinning skills into the last unit but wasn’t sure how to make this part of my unit, I decided to create yarns to crochet and knit into wraps, following my successful free form wrap created on homelessness. What to call them ….. wearable hugs the name popped into my…
Bishops Art Prize
As part of my final unit I decided to enter the Bishops Art Prize, the brief was “Unexpected Blessings” I spent some time exploring the brief looking at key words and different meanings, finally I decided to use personal feelings and relationships important to me. I wanted to explore the idea of positive outcomes occurring following…
Home Project
For this project I decided to look at homelessness, I wanted to show what homelessness felt like in yarn. I was homeless for a short period of time several years ago, I wanted to explore these feelings and try to express the feelings in yarn and to create a piece of work that visualised these feelings. My first…
BA7: Pechua Kucha, Learning Agreement
This is my first unit of my last year at NUA, I am now a year 3 student … Oh dear I am not sure what I want to do in my last year, I spent the first week thinking what was I going to do, I wanted to spend this last term developing skills…
Woolly Workshop Day
Woolly workshop at Designer Makers @ 21 in Diss, with Kim and Kally Davidson , the day was spent trying out woolly craft techniques. We were asked to choses 10 different types of yarn to spin together to create a new yarn, I had spun before but I had forgotten how much I enjoyed the process of spinning,…