Playing Around
I’ve had a note on my kitchen white board for months which just says “unravelled knitting and plastic fibre.” I was stirring a pan of instant noodles one day and thought how much they looked like unravelled knitting and how much the frothy, boiling water reminded me of plastic fibre. I intended to make it in felt, but only got around to it yesterday. I picked Charolais wool, I thought this would make a spongy felt and help create the right effect. I think I would have been better off with something like Cheviot. This is the full piece:
Close up of the plastic fibre as frothy, boiling water:
Close up of unravelled knitting (which I think was mostly wool) as instant noodles:
While I had my White Wools tub out, I thought I’m make another couple of pieces to try combining different wools with fibres. This one was made with English 56s. It was a bit different to previous packs I’ve had, the fibres were much longer, almost like there was a high Devon content. I used some hand dyed Nylon Fibres. I love the colours you get with Nylon, especially the blues, which is why there are so many shades on this:
I don’t know if it’s obvious to you, but it definitely has a different look this Eng 56s, more ‘wavy’:
Here’s a close up of some green (the blue was impossible to capture)
For my last piece I used my new favourite wool, Rambouillet. And some fibres I have a ton of, crimped polyester lap-type things, (or as the shops call it ‘Hallowe’en cobwebs’!). I’ve tried this before with various results. It really attached well into the Rambouillet:
It looked to me like wet paper, the way it will form to whatever it dries on top of.
It kept a lot of its crimpy character while still forming a mat of fibres:
It was quite hard to get close ups, the green and orange are both fluorescent. Green:
Orange:
I don’t have any plans for them, I just needed a ‘play day’ 🙂