Oh Lord, I have such an urge to Knit a jumper!!

I found the powerpoint presentation on textiles, texture and form really insightful.
Its amazing the scale you can knit in.You can use almost anything as knitting needles (remove the tops off two sweeping brushes and bob's your uncle) and not limit yourself with just necessarily wool. Cut up t-shirt material, rope, wire... anything with some give in it, only your imagination is your limitation!

 A knitwear designer that stood out to me from the presentation was Sandra Backlund. What she can create using traditional handicraft techniques is mindblowing as even though she is using traditional techniques what she constructs using wool is so aesthetically fresh. She plays with the silhouette to great effect. The three dimentional quality to the garments she makes gives a womans body an added complexity that can't but not catch a viewers eye, and hence take note of the designers name Sandra Backlund. As i did.
It's funny to note that Sandra's childhood dream was to be a hair stylist. I think in a roundabout way she has fulfilled her dream but wool just happens to be serving as the hair. She brings that childhood dream into her collection entitled " body skin and hair".  The image above is from that collection.

 

 This piece taken from her "In no time"collection makes me think of rolling out a sleeping bag in the middle of the wilderness, with a few native Indian americans for the night after telling stories around the campfire. Weird what fashion can generate in the imagination, eh?