Caitlyn Ross

Sustainability and how materials impact the environment is a growing issue when it comes to fashion. This project tackles this problem by saving knit waste and putting it back through the design process. The potential of the unused material is largely overlooked and as designers, we can rework it back into knitwear in creative ways. 

This project explores the incorporation of waste through different design methods by collecting yarn waste and dead stock and preventing it from going to landfill. This is broken down through slow making methods on an individual scale to influence the idea of slowing down and promoting the outlook to salvage and appreciate waste.

Through methods such as needle felting, trapping and plating with the scrap material, the waste has been used in accompaniment with a limited selection of natural based yarns which have had little processing as possible. This will reduce the environmental impact as the only yarns that are outsourced are all biodegradable and have gone through limited additional treatment.

This project aims to promote longevity in design and consumer habits by making people more aware of their waste and recognising what can be done to extend the life of materials.