STATEMENT:
Knitting was very meditative and healing. This project was more of a pure self enjoyment, and I focused on exploring the materiality of knits as well as shapes and functions of bags. The blue bag was composed of jeans and thick carpet yarn. I cut one pair of my jeans into connecting stripes and knit them as normal yarn by hand only. The big tote bag was for the freezing winter in New York as I always forgot to bring gloves. I knitted a glove onto one of the handles so that even if I forgot to bring gloves, my hand would still be warm. The green tinkerbell bag was for spring outings like picnics, it was made to be girly. I added ribbons to the sides to add a soft touch to the bag. The handles were made from wire and covered by green yarn with hot glue.