Tuesday, March 16, 2010

machine knit garments


garment in progress
5gg machine knit with crochet in white cotton

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

knit design courses

garment making techniques
for machine knitting
From Catherine, soon to be a download pattern
for machine knitting on www.knit-1.com
student Shirley Ann
knitted this on an ordinary domestic knitting machine


Student Charlotte assembling an amazing collection of
machine knitted swatches


tutor Catherine and students Liz and Christine
discussing garment making on knitting machines

knit design courses

classic breton knit
cast on 10 am


back bodice





back bodice off the machine



front and back bodices cast off together at shoulders




sleeve





1pm all knitted and sew in sleeves








sew up sleeve and bodice side seams














ok for a boy or girl








Friday, March 5, 2010

get more from your knitting machine





all made on standard gauge domestic knit machines but with a good helping of creativity!!
see what you can do?

knit design courses






get more from your knitting machine!!




how about these then??



these are some pieces made in the studio by our knit design students and also by the in house team









knit design courses




knit design courses


Charlotte's fabulous creation grows

Wednesday, March 3, 2010


knit design courses

fame at last via Charlotte, one of our lovely students in the workshop. she chose 'the oldies' on Steve Wright in the afternoon and got a name check for knit-1.

she is currently working on very intersting float piece..she is super creative

here's the first image to see how it grows..