The Squiggles Begin to Hatch!

"The universe is squiggly!" -Omni

It is a long term project. I tie together all kinds of fiber yarns, all the same general color category, into one long continuous string. The colored strands wind together into a yarn ball. This ball is the SEED.

The round knitting loom extrudes the thneed as it patterns into the next form, the EGG. This is the second stage in my project.

The eggs sit around in a basket for a while, then, they hatch! Into the third stage: the SQUIGGLE!

This is very exciting. Right now, the squiggles are loose in the house....

I create the squiggle stage by wrapping copper wire with pillow stuffing. (For stuffing, I grab a few pillows from around the house and dissect them.) I sew covers for each pillow wrapped copper wire, then thread them through the knitted tubes, pulling the end strings tightly shut.

It is a long term project, so stay tuned to see what happens next.

The squiggly ness of the universe is a very important thing to realize. Things are often squiggly when we expect or want them to be straight, linear, and square. But universe does not think in terms of straight or linear, even though we find the concept useful in many ways. So when we interface with real stuff, it's good to remember it is really, actually, all quite squiggly.