trodden path

have been in a  mild funk all summer, studio time was agonizingly unproductive, work  coming out was more like arrrg than ahhh . was seriously wondering if i had no more to say and considered leaving textile practice.
a series of events including the passing of two friends acted as a wake up call and i am back again on my toes. life's indeed too short to be wasted .

yarns mocking wire, aged and covered in patina.passage of time.i had already started working with these, but the concept was not very clear in my mind.now it's just onward with it.




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working hard

never fails. now that my tai chi  and japanese classes are starting i am furiously working on  this project.on my behalf i can say that y needed a lace carriage and it took a while to find one for my punch card machine.
ironically using it has taken me to explore hand transfers, as they are less regular than punch cards

 case sample one . notice how the holes turn back on themselves to form slight angles.

and two.much more subdued with lots of stockinette in between


















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feeling virtuous at last

when my fairy godmother gifted me my first k-machine she mentioned that i would soon get acquainted with the concept waste yarn. and by jove i did! waste yarn is the yarn used before you're able to start knitting, usually 10-20 rows.

the amount i've generated over the years! it didn't make me feel better the fact that you use cheap ugly stuff, it's still a lot of yarn. 

recently i learned about cast on rags in one of the machine knitting groups and that squared the equation.

you need to work the cast on and then at least 10 rows to start knitting properly.of all the failed pieced i found some that could be adapted as cast on rags; now i only need to pick up the stitches, hang them to the needles and knit along.i am also using yarns from discarded cotton pieces as ravel cord.

😇😇

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