Insperation..!

Why Choose Tye Dye as my main Insperation:

 

Iv always have been a bubbly person. Wearing tie dye is my way of showing comfort, it is what best describe me.  All tie dye techniques express a bundle of emotion almost like going to the carnival, its loud, cheerful and full if colours, not to mean the spiral it express as the life pattern runs in a circle.

The vains expressed in tie dye techniques also known as the running lines would express my family tree, as well as the support system I have. The garment is composed out of three colours namely black, grey and white. For those who knows me well will know that is my bases colour I wear evryday with a slight dash of colour in either a T-Shirt or socks or even shoes.

Some of the stories reflecting in this jersey were written by a friend of mine, Marlie in a previous post called “A friend wrote my story”. Basicly it goes about me who is living with an illness for the rest of my life and because of greater illnesses in the family, scared that my illness would develop in something more serious over the years. Another part is my grandfather who died which had an impact on me as to the way I am. This part were reflected on the back pannel of my jersey which I first knitted and then dyed. Because I was not so happy of the end result of the back pannel, I desided to take a paint brush and paint lines on the back with dye and express myself by dipping the brush in the dye and splat it on the back pannel. Because it were still wet it allowed me to rub the wet dye across the jersey making the lines not so obvious. There are a lot happening at the back expressing my past and my fear of illness, where as for the lines at the back is more represented by my family who always protects me and support me no matter what. It can also be seen as scars in a way of stitches that is sen up seing it as a wound that is beginning to heal.

The white yarn is firstly dyed with black couloring but because I only left the yarn in the dye for half an hour it came out grey and not black. This mistake I did not mind at all as for it shows me trying to break through everything which were rough in my past. The front is much lighter as to what the back express. The back is the dark side, overcoming the illness aswell a the past by stitching up the wounds and return to who I am. The front, because it is so light reflect on the start of something new, the old me being happy thowhing off the weat which layed like a mountain on my shoulders.

I kept the sleeves simple and black as to what it keep me on earth, the support of family and friends aswell as I wanted the front and back pannel speaking my stories and not my jersey being overly customized.