Part 4 - Experimenting with structures Exercise 3

In my garden I have a large lavender plant.  Each year I cut down the lavender and dry it.  I decided to use the stalks that were left when the lavender seeds had been stripped from them for this exercise.

I decided to make a triangular shape for the frame I was to make.  The first one I tied the stalks together with thread and wound knitting wools around the shape in a random way.  The second piece had the stalks tied together with knitting wool and I would chenille thread around the three edges of the triangle.  Various threads including knitting ribbon, textured knitting wool, raffia and threaded seed beeds were wound across the triangle and then an area was woven with textured knitting thread. 

I wasn't and still am not sure whether I was doing this exercise in the right way.  I wasn't sure how the examples should basically look but then thought perhaps that is the object of the exercise just to use my own imagination and initiative to make a small structure.  In hindsight I would not have used the lavender sticks as they were very flimsy and kept splitting and breaking.  I persevered because I like the delicacy and shape of the stalks.  They are not round but have four flat edges so are cuboid in shape.  I also like the colour which is grey with a greenish tinge.  I think I limited my choice of yarns too much and could have been a bit more experimental with my choice.  However, I did enjoy constructing the shapes because I had to keep rethinking how I handled them, tied them together and got them to remain rigid enough to work with.