Things are going pretty well at the moment. It's only three weeks to go until everything has to be up for the degree show but I feel like it's under control. I've decided that I'm going to show my PS3 for my degree show rather than a book of patterns which I was thinking about. This is because I've spent so much time on the PS3 it does deserve to be shown properly and although sometimes I feel otherwise, it is a progression from the other items, even the abandoned ones. Even though I don't actually want a PS3, I have knitted it in reaction to all the hype surrounding it and the fact that it was and is a wanted item by many people; this was a progression from realising through knitting the other items that I actually don't want very much. I think I want to make the title for the piece some reference to the cost of an actual PS3 and the cost of mine and that I've probably had just as many hours of fun making it as people have had playing on theirs since it's release a couple of months ago. It's coming along pretty well - only a couple more small sections to knit and the whole shell is now stuffed and covering in silver gaffa tape. Take a look at the Flickr page because I uploaded some more pictures the other day.
I found out the other day that I've been posted on a couple of other blogs; whipup.net and the CRAFT magazine blog, so if you've just started to read this blog having linked from there then hello!
Hmm, what else to update... I showed the three abandoned Knitted pieces yesterday in the Time Based Foyer at Uni and they're still up at the moment and I will keep them up as long as possible next week, so if you're around in Uni then come take a look. The three pieces are the camera lens from the camcorder, half a bikini top from wanting a holiday, and the knitted "A" as part of Knitted success. I called the work "Abandoned Knits" as for all of the items; the longevity of the desire < the full length of the knitting process - and so each were given up as I decided I no longer wanted them or didn't want them enough. I suppose in the second case it would be true: the depth of the desire for the object < the depth of the desire to knit for that long. Or something like that.