drawing with knit

Rachel Walsh, 2010. SAMPLE 10

Rachel Walsh's skills in knitting with wire have caught the attention of the judges at the Knitted Textile Awards 2010. She has been chosen as a finalist and will exhibit her work both at the Harrogate and London Knit and Stitch shows. Her work took inspiration from architecture and maps and the textile solution was to use knit as a drawing tool, adding each coloured yarn piece by piece to build up these evocative images