Winning!!!

What a weekend it has been! Just packed up and finished The Wearable Art Show in downtown Toronto...where I won the Architectural Influenced fashion competition!

Here I am being feted by the owners of the museum which will open in May 2014......more to come, watch this space....I'll post a pic of the dress  I designed..... bit to giddy and tired just now.

Week 5 Intarsia and Tartan

                                                        INTARSIA

Intarsia ia a method of knitting with a number of colours, in which a separate ball of yarn is used for each area of colour (opposed to different yarns being carried at the back of the work)

We learnt how to lay out an design to scale after mastering how to twist the yarns at the back of knitting

This method is very time consuming.  I prefer hand knitting this unless it is just a small isolated motif  or any very large motif with few colours.

The sample above I would do with an punch card, and paint in the orange or using  a slip or tuck stitch to get that effect.  

PLAIDS OR TARTANS

Plaids was a lot of fun creating patterns and punch cards was also very challenging only 24 stitches.

   Using Jacquard and changing colours as you would strip and alternation background and foreground

   we created the following plaids.   We made the punch cards by only punching one line and setting it 

on hold

     

 

Week 4 CURVES AND CONTOURS

This week we are learning curves and contours.  It was the best week yet.  Most interesting  

It is a real challenge creating the right  curvature on the knitting machine.  We started by making oval and ellipse shapes.  Using sock heel technique we created bust shapes.  We also used various darts using short rowing and moving over stitches to make bust shapes.  So many possibilities.  We continued to make lot of samples. Each time using an other method like poinntelle and closed fashioning.  

We also knitted circular sections using various way of short 

rowing, increasing and decreasing methods.

This is the playing with shaping

Some more experimenting 

We knitted various textures using all the above technique. 

We had such a great time playing with all these great techniques

Two more week to go

              Above is adding new different yarn using 

              short rowing.

            

            

             Same technique as on other sample

             only different placement 

             How cool is that

              

       

          I will not delete this photo because 

          I just might  deleting the complete blog again.  

          I am new at this.

                                                            

                                                                    

Week 3 MAKING A GARMENT

That week was all about making an garment to size which included, making swatches. and working out the math.  You could pick a sample garment and make that to size.  I created my own which is still in progress.  The third photo is the front part to my sweater.

 These are sample pieces  to work out the design
 But I used 4 other textures

I ran out of wool.  Their was an other cone but it was a different dye lot.  So have to redesign to work in the other dye lot of yarn.

The second week was all about Manipulated Lace
It was about transferring stitches to  an basic fully fashioning. How to make pointelle in squares and diamond and circle shapes. We covered travelling ladders and making slashes It is the making of very
open knitted lace pieces and deconstructed knit pieces.

We also cover some Contemporary Cables
With the cable we cover various kinds of cables at multiple placement.  We also covered travelling cables and plaits. We used cable in seam and joining fabrics with cables

Photo of samples

All knitted on standard
Brothers knitting machine

First Week at Knit One

First week is done. But what a week
It was all about Modern Stripes.  Which cover combining 2 to 4 colours, Ombre strip Blurring and Weaving.  We also did some short row techniques to create various curving strips
Designed and made punch cards. for slip tuck and jacquard
Played with a bit engineering  jacquards  So much fun.