Katie Niewodowski

Love the colours, textures, melting, bubbling, embellishment, clustering.

Entrelac

Another technique I wish to learn!
Once I have learnt the technique I'd like to experiment with the sizes of the squares, going from a wide scale, and also combination of colours. Extreme, op art effects. Graduation in colours.

New Ideas

Ideas I am thinking of incorporating into my knitwear:
techniques such as cross stitch, crewel embroidery mixed with intarsia, shisha indian mirror embroidery. intense macrame.

industrials.
different gaige machines - very chunky/fine.
colours - few, neon, monochrome with highlights.
subject matter - broader, all spectrums of design. art, architecture, fashion, etc.

Indigo

Eugene Andolsek

Monster faces everywhere!

I am becoming ever obsessed with research involving kachina inspired monster faces. I'd really like this collection to be very illustrative and playful, and well as intricate and detailed. I discovered Michael Velliquette's work a while ago but have just stumbled across it again this morning on the blog BOOOOOOOM! As well as being very relevant to my theme and research, I absolutely love his work. I love the playfulness, and the amazing intricacy. The colours are also great, and there is so much variation of detail and technique involved. I am always a fan of things which come out of the wall in a 3-D effect, so I have to say his work really ticks all the boxes for me!
Ideas for taking into knitwear:
Perhaps I could add sections onto the machine as I knit - make a load of highly embellished pieces such as cut fabric, leather, beading, felt, etc, and then loop onto the machine like free hand drawing. (If each piece has a small acetate border at the top so that it can be hole punched).

Crazy on Kachinas

After completing a few different drawings and collages focusing on the kachina dolls I had planned to look into other aspects of Buffy's culture, such as the beadwork, jewellery and quillwork. However, after flicking through quite a few books for inspiration I felt a little overwhelmed by the vast amount to look at/draw. In addition, after finding more images of the kachina dolls on the Internet I couldn't help but draw more and more of them. I think they are so interesting and unique and as this is a short project, I figured I will just really focus on them. I particularly like the old style kachinas the best, as they are more naive looking and quite retro. Each one is completely different and I can't help spending hours on the Internet trying to find more and more. I need to try and finalise my colour scheme tomorrow so I can get thinking about yarns. I have a good idea of the colours I want to use but I need to get it down on paper so it is clear. From further exploration of the kachina dolls, I'd like the samples to be quite illustrative and playful. I'd love them to be made up of tiny little kachina faces, but not too sure how this could be achieved. I also plan to look into other research, such as beading etc for ideas on technique to combine with the images of the kachinas. I have included some more images of the most recent old style kachinas I have found.