Knitting with Convolvulus

For some time now i have been playing around with weavable vegetation form my garden. Convolvulus (Bind weed) is a perennial weed that causes me quite a bit of grief trying to stay on top of its rampant nature. Earlier I posted a small bowl that I had made from it. Now, after reading about Alice Fox’s investigations with the vine, I decided to try knitting with it and making a textured wall hanging.

Here is the result. The convolvulus vine was cut, leaves stripped and the vine coiled and dried before rewetting for pliability and knitting on No 8 needles. I started each new piece at the beginning of a row, weaving in any ends at the side. The darker area is a part of the root vine whereas the greener parts are those that travel up to the light.

The finished piece was stitched onto a linen mix substrate and that was stretched onto a piece of thin MDF and mounted in a box frame without glass. I prefer the texture to be readily visible rather than confined behine