With our location sorted and installation trials successful,
ton Wednesday Lizzie and I took a final trip to the Northern Quarter to source some
yarn. Our first stop was a cute little shop on the fringes of the Northern
Quarter called Purl City Yarns. I had never heard of this place before, but
thankfully I had bumped into a friend who recommended it to me. Unfortunately,
when we got there it wasn't quite what we were looking for. As lovely as the
shop was, the yarns in stock were much too expensive for us, especially since
we were hoping to buy in bulk. For what we wanted to do, we decided that bog
standard cheap yarns would do just fine! So it was off to trusty old Abakhan.
From Abakhan, we bought 3 packs of yarn in Black, Navy Blue
and Moss Green. We were a little limited to the choice of colour but from what
we had to choose from, we decided to keep to a dark colour scheme. The plan is
to knit the colours as separate pieces but interlace them when setting up the
installation so that the yarns cross over each other and allow the colours to
blend in.
We put this into practice later on that the afternoon as we
got knitting immediately in time to film the final scenes of the fashion film.
At this stage of filming, the narrative begins to integrate the installation as
a collaboration of both elements of our group project. The storyboard runs so
that the protagonist (Hannah!) finds herself entangled ‘in a web of her own
fears’... it’s all a bit disturbing but that's always far more fun! To fit the mood, Racheal found a very sinister looking
set of stairs somewhere around the back of her old foundation studios. Here we
set up some of the arm-knit samples and were able to see for the first time how
the colours and varying densities of yarn would work together.
I think we were
all pleased with the results as the yarns were pulled taught to create a dense
web that looked more intricate that in actually was! It has been a trying couple of days but I think we're getting there!
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