Saturday was an all day Ceramics day for me... I'm starting to work on forms for YARN BOWLS! - I am hoping to be able to offer a number of these for sale by the early summer.  If you have particular wishes regarding sizing, color, etc. be sure to email me and let me know and I'll try to make one to fit your needs :)

I also started work on an organically shaped "knitted" vase - this piece stands about 14" tall and is highly textured on one side, less on the other (but the same pattern) - I like the feeling this is conveying; marriage of clay and knit.... we'll see where it goes from here.  Any suggestions as to what color you might like to see this vase?

Here's my first attempt at a truely knitted "vase" - there are holes in this one where the stitches gap apart... but it should be a great holder for knitting needles!  it's drying and waiting to be bisque fired...

And this... ladies and gentleman is a porcelain knitted swatch - it's about to be bisque fired as well - and may end up as a framed piece... it's a test for future projects... but I'm having a great time experimenting...

I have 3 bowls being bisqued right now, and in addition to these pieces 6 more bowls waiting to be trimmed and to go to bisque firing... it was a fun Saturday class this time - quite productive!

I also knitted on a secret project that I can't reveal quite yet... it's about 30% done... and I'm truckin' along on it!

Lastly, the Knitting: Men in America survey is coming along nicely - lots of amazing bloggers and websites have linked to it and we're getting a great cross section of contemporary knitters contributing to the data.  I am learning all kinds of neat things about the way we think of each other and can't wait to share it with all of you!

 


Comments

Jadielady

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:31:49

Oh those are beautiful!!! How do you do it?

 

Judy G.

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:04:05

Kyle, those are fabulous! I especially like the flat piece. Could you make a mold of some kind from the knitting, and then slap that on the clay so the knitting was sticky-outie? In any case, did you have to sacrifice a sweater for your art, or does the clay wash out?

 

Andi

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:26:33

I love the concept of representing a soft craft in a hard form. Very cool. So many different glazes available, so little time :)

 

Linda Starr

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:17:35

Hi Kyle, you just made a comment on my blog, so I thought I'd take a look at your website and blog. I saw you are so versatile working with clay, knitting and more. Then I noticed you had a blog. Then I read about your knitted vases. They are so beautiful, but I couldn't believe what I saw. You aren't going to believe this, I just finished making what I was thinking of calling my victorian lace bowls, tumblers, pendants and vases. In fact the bowl's feet posted on my blog is one of those bowls. I have used a crocheted piece to impress the clay and then formed my pieces. Maybe I'll call them crochet pieces, I don't know. So mine are crocheted and your's are knitted, and yet we've both been working in a similar vein. I was going to keep mine a secret till I saw how they go through the firings, but I let the cat out of the bag here. Good luck with yours, I can't wait to see them fired and find out about the secret one. It's a small world after all and like Andi above, so many ideas and so little time.

 

Janice Rosema

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:37:24

These are beyond fabulous. You never cease to amaze me with your talent! Can I be one of the first to purchase a yarn swatch bowl from the Kyle Collection?

 

Dave Daniels

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:36:58

KYLE!
That "knitted" piece is fabulous! I can see a whole line like that. Your work is really progressing well.

 



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