The Endless Garment or stalking Issey Miyake and Sandra Backlund

Today was off to orientation at the CAE. A chance to catch up with lots of people, but basically an administration session. Instead of going off to the Art galleries that were listed, I went off to the RMIT gallery for the exhibition 'The Endless Garment: The New Craft of Machine Knitting'.

The best reason to go to exhibitions is not to look at pretty pictures, but to be shaken, stirred, inspired, shocked, surprised............In other words, when you have an emotional response, then an exhibition is a success. This was such an exhibition.

This is all machine knitting from a variety of international and local designers. There are so many ideas to absorb, both for machine knitters and hand knitters.

I'm going to purchase the catalogue when it comes out. I highly recommend that you pop in and have a look at the exhibition.

There's a number of event as part of the exhibition, I'm particularly interested in the Public Lecture by the Creative Director for Issey Miyake, and, the talk titled Knit your building. for more details visit: Rmit Gallery

Exhbition dates: 12 February - 21 March 2010

RMIT gallery / 344 Swanston Street / Melbourne

Mon - Fri 11-5 / Saturday 12 - 5 /

Structural knitting

'Structural knitting' is what we've called one of the articles that we're (Experimental spinners and friends) entering for the Australian Sheep and Wool show group competition. The theme is 'Spin a yarn' and we're sending around our five articles for each person to work on, accompanied by a book.

For this piece we've obviously been inspired by Sandra Backlund, well, I have and if I'm convening this, I'm going to have one of her pieces in. Megalomania here I come!

I started the structural knitting off, and will pass it on to the next person today. I can't wait to see where it goes and to add more, further down the track. We have till the end of June to finish these and we don't know where they'll end up. What fun!