Kitchen sink ikat: Pumpkin Sp(i/a)ce Invaders
Another Penland ikat project! The official name for this piece is Pumpkin Sp(i/a)ce Invaders because of the color and the shapes. (The second word is "spice" and "space" blended together. 🙂) I also call this one my kitchen sink project because I packed a ton of experiments in a single piece.
The piece is twice as long as shown in the picture below. This is the best side — the design gets progressively more unregistered as you move through the piece
My Penland desk was always covered in a dozen projects — complete chaos.
My experiments included:
Halftones of various sizes with every-other-thread shifting
Satin weave
Lunatic Fringe's naturally colored cotton (light brown and dark brown)
Dyeing different shades of yarn in the same dye bath
Alternating stripes of color within a design
I learned so much from this and want to try each of these techniques again — just not all at the same time.
Here's a close up of the front and back. I love how you can see a ghost image of the pattern on the back of the piece.
