With my group I am making a big tapestry of knitted patches. The starting point of our tapestry is "making home." I'm focusing on illustrating homesickness on knitted patches using embroidery.

Kai Kotto is a knitwear brand that is inspired by childhood, nostalgia and love of colour. They create beautiful garments with knitted illustrations made with the intarsia method.

Laerke Bagger is a Danish knitwear designer known for her "scraps" method. She makes designs using leftover yarn which creates interesting colour combinations. For our project we were inspired by her as we are only using yarn gifted from family members or of our own stash.

Source unknown: a jumper that tells a story and shows a landscape.

Design by brand Sea New York. The house illustration is inspiring because it is a representation of home.

Jumper by "I'd knit that" by Kendall Jade Ross. I love how the text on the jumper are very unexpected and personal.

Duplicate stitch illustrations by Mette Kærlig Hilsen. Duplicate stitch is a form of embroidery on a knitted fabric. I learnt this method to experiment with it for the tapestry.

Blanket design by Purl Soho

An important medium we used to tell a story in our tapestry was the duplicate stitch. It's a way of embroidering on a knitted patch. I learnt how to do it, and taught Honey, and Honey taught Kim. I experienced with embroidering an illustration and text using an alphabet I found online. I found a website called "stitchfiddle" with which you can illustrate your own patterns for embroidery.

As our theme is home and homesickness for me specifically, I wanted to bring this theme into the embroidery. I analysed my family group chat, which is a place of home on my phone that I can always reach. I found that phrases such as "OMG" and "miss you" are said a lot, and decided to embroider those. I also made a patch that said "home" with a heart under it, because home is a place of love and comfort. I made a patch with three question marks "???." This one represents the feeling unsure of what your true home is.

The two patches above, and the one under the OMG patch, were knitted by my mother and my sisters. Because home is for me is my family, I asked them to contribute to the tapestry. Here is a photo of my sister working on a patch.

I've also experienced with using multiple strands of yarn by using two colours together which created a nice effect. The multiple colours for me represented the feeling of feeling stuck between two homes (two countries and two cities).

I created a big mohair piece with different shades of pink and blue to create a gradient. This piece is a bit messy and see through, which is a nice effect for in the tapestry as people can walk around and see though it. It also stretches out a lot when sewn into to the tapestry.