another beard bites the dust

Today has been a very pro active day where I have been able to to COMPLETE ANOTHER BEARD!!! As you can probably tell I am ecstatic about this, all the hours of chain stitch has been worth while. Using each of the chains, I wove them in various patterns throughout the scarf and then found it still looked quite bare. I spoke to Grace who advised me to add more texture by using differant materials or knotting. 

After this I found some scrap silk habiti donated to us by Libby and Andy from moving tides in greens and pinks. Looking at them by themselfs you would think them over bright and to much, however i have found that in combination with the barnicals and other threads they look like strands of seaweed with coral intertwined. I also cut up small amounts of loose felting wool and tied them in knots to look like clusters of sea enemys.


Finally I added the crochet barnicals, these have less weight compared to the structured cone ones meaning the beard will be lighter than previously thought. I found that if placed individually they looked hidden amongst the mass of sea weed, however in groups incorporating various materials and colours capture the eye and draw out key areas of the beard 

Grace wearing my final beard

This has turned out much better than I expected and with Grace's advice I have found another way of creating texture in a simplistic way. The barnicals when in clusters draw attention to key areas of the beard and keeping the strands of chain dangling from the end of the beard gives it a beraggled look which is key for the elders. I have learnt that there are more than just one way to weave and if you combine various materials instead of being very tunnle vision, you can unravel many new ideas as well as techniques. For my next and final beard I will use the techniques I learnt on this beard however I will also look into some more knotting ideas and braiding, this shall increase the various textures as well as my knowledge of basic foundation skills.