Yarnadelic Remixes 0.1

The Soul of Yarnadelic Remixes 0.1

Do you love knitting, music, and sharing these things with your friends? Did you ever spend joyful afternoons learning new techniques, making mixtapes, or writing about your favourite new knits or sounds?

Do you need more mischief, inspiration and geekiness in your life? More playlists, tunes and charming music box fun to accompany you during your knitting time? If the answer is “yes” then join us - Felix/KNITSONIK & Muriel/Labistrake - for Yarnadelic Remixes 0.1.

This project is our love letter to tunes, textiles, patterns and play. It combines our creative practices in a pattern collection that comes with our music box versions of popular songs; playlists; videos; notes; essays and a big old stack of fun.

By the end you’ll know more about programmable music boxes and the songs that inspired John Arbon Textiles’ Yarnadelic Yarn range. You’ll also have an amazing collection of music-inspired handknits, each decorated in a different design that speaks to the patterns and rhythms of music in the colourful language of knit.

When you sign up to Yarnadelic Remixes 0.1, you’ll continue the collaborative soul of our work together as you bring your own creativity to knitting our patterns, listening to our sounds, reading our notes, and remixing our designs on your needles.

The Content of Yarnadelic Remixes 0.1

When you sign up to Yarnadelic Remixes 0.1 you’ll get:

• Six accessory patterns, each inspired by music and featuring a different technique (see Publishing Schedule below).
• Tutorial videos demonstrating the techniques used.
• Inspiring videos explaining the musical concept of each design and the background to the special creative commission, Woman Blue: Elevate produced by Lorna Hamilton-Brown RCA, MBE as part of this project.
• Essays exploring some of the rich creative contexts surrounding the songs that inspired us.
• Playlists so you can hear the creative process that led to each design and so you've something to listen to as you knit!
• Audio downloads of our special music-box remixes of the songs behind the Yarnadelic yarn range by John Arbon Textiles.

The project’s home will be right here on Teachable. This enables everyone who signs up to receive Patterns, Tutorials, Creative Video Content, Essays, Playlists and Audio Downloads together in one place.

The Publishing Schedule for Yarnadelic Remixes 0.1

This is a disabled-led and content-rich project with many moving parts. To allow time to absorb, explore and knit each design in the collection, each of the patterns plus its supportive content will be published monthly as a fat, multimedia chapter of dreams, between April - August 2023.

Without giving too much away - we want each design to have its glorious reveal as this project unfolds! - this is the forthcoming release schedule:

• April 2023 - Wondrous Waltz

Double-Knit fabric and marled ribbing; patterns that run in and out of sync; the wonderful artist Fatima and the creative milieu surrounding her 2018 release, And Yet It’s All Love (featuring the Waltz that forms one half of this design’s name).

• May 2023 - Woman In All The Blues

Big Holes technique; making marled gradients; a feminist exploration of the history of Blues music and Judy Roderick’s recording of the song Woman Blue; the story behind the powerful machine-knit artwork, Woman Blue: Elevate by Lorna Hamilton-Brown RCA, MBE.

• June 2023 - Beadism

Beading with a crochet hook; using beads as notes; minimalism and minimalist patterns in music and knitting; notating Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s Music for a Found Harmonium for knitted fabric

• July 2023 - Looking for a Stranded Harmonium

Stranded colourwork; an alternative music box version of Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s Music for a Found Harmonium using shading sequences to speak to ideas of left and right handed-ness for wearing mitts and playing music.

• August 2023 - Shuffle Mode Shawl

Making Magic Balls; stranded colourwork and steeking; experiencing snippets of songs and patterns as if encountering them via shuffle mode.