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| When garbage becomes home |
This nest, comprised of plastic garbage bags, candy wrappers, and other bits of refuse fished from the trash, proved to be the trickiest to figure out. I decided on knitting as the technique, but then had to invent a really wonky pattern that involved starting to knit from the tips of the pattern below, keeping them well separate, and adding stitches to each of four panels row by row until I merged them all together to form the nest wall. To construct, simply fold the triangular edges under, overlapping, until they form the base of the nest and stitch together.
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| How to knit garbage |
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| How to knit garbage |
Miraculously, when folded in place and stitched together, it does indeed form a nest.
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| The nest |
I cannot think of anything better to make a cozy home in this nest than my extensive collection of pop-tops from cans, which I use for everything from jewelry making to assemblage to wall hangings. On reflection, I realize nests would be a perfect system for storing random art supplies.
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| A clutch of pop-top tabs |
I thought this Nest Series has come to a fitting end with this garbage nest, but that was before I harvested roots from my bamboo. Stay tuned. . .
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