Asserting UoF’s Latest Classes: Drafting Lower & Sew Knits – Half 1
Since launching the College of Style in 2008 the mission of the corporate has at all times been to protect the artwork and craft of trend design. Now, as we enter our sixteenth 12 months in enterprise, I’m proud to say that we’re not solely holding to that mission, however have expanded into different areas of trend schooling, together with trend retailing and merchandising, visible merchandising, trend legislation, influencer advertising and the latest trend business space; 3D digital design.
We now have over 500 classes in 13 completely different disciplines and we proceed so as to add extra content material to our library month-to-month. Actually, we just lately filmed a complete minimize & sew knit lesson collection in response to pupil ideas. From studying about knit materials and stretch ratios to drafting knit slopers – you requested & we delivered.
Your Knit Journey Begins Right here
Introduction to Knit Materials preview Knit Material Ideas preview
Step one when designing a minimize and stitch knit garment is to study knit material. In our lesson entitled, Introduction to Knit Materials, we display the distinction between woven and knit materials and the way knit material is structured. You’ll study the which means of phrases like knit and purl, wale and course and the way a weft knit differs from a warp knit. We’ll educate you about various kinds of yarns and the way knits are made in order that you’ll make the most effective knit material alternative for every of your designs.
In our lesson, Knit Material Ideas, you’ll study extra about designing with knits. We’ll educate you all in regards to the 4 traits of knit materials, what it means when a knit material has 1-way, 2-way or 4-way stretch, in addition to the six classes of stretch ratio percentages, in order that it is possible for you to to draft your knit design in your knit material alternative.
The way to Draft Your Knit Slopers
Drafting a Girls’s Relaxed Match Knit T-shirt from Measurements
Drafting a sample from physique measurements might be difficult, however not at College of Style. If you draft your T-shirt slopers from our classes, Fitted Steady Knit T-shirt and the Relaxed Match T-shirt from Measurements, we offer downloadable charts and diagrams that will help you find all the key measurement-taking factors. We additionally present downloadable worksheets in an effort to simply file your measurements. The ladies’s fitted steady knit T-shirt sloper will develop into the idea for your whole knit designs for 1-way and a pair of manner stretch material.
Drafting a 4-Means Knit Stretch Sloper
Changing a Steady Knit T-shirt & Sleeve Sloper to 4-way Stretch Knit Sloper preview
When you’ve drafted your Fitted Steady Knit T-shirt sloper, you’re able to learn to convert that sloper to a 4-way knit stretch sloper. Our lesson, Changing a Steady Knit T-shirt & Sleeve Sloper to a 4-way Stretch Knit Sloper, ends in a sloper that can be utilized for your whole activewear, shapewear and swimwear garment designs.
Designing & Drafting a Lower & Sew Knit Legging & Unitard
Drafting a Girls’s Knit Unitard preview Drafting a Legging preview
By combining the 4-way Stretch Knit Sloper, drafted in our lesson Changing a Steady Knit T-shirt & Sleeve Sloper to 4-way Stretch Knit, with the legging drafted in our lesson Drafting a Legging, you’ll learn to mix the 2 slopers to draft a unitard from our lesson, Drafting a Girls’s Knit Unitard.
Designing a Lower & Sew Knit Hoodie
Drafting a Hooded Knit Prime preview
Utilizing the sleeveless steady knit T-shirt sloper drafted in our lesson, Drafting a Girls’s Fitted Steady Knit T-shirt from Measurements you’ll learn to draft a hooded knit prime made from a cotton/Lycra single knit jersey. We’ll educate you how one can interpret a sketch to in an effort to verify key measurements, such because the neck drop, the neck opening and the peak and width of the hood.
Keep tuned for extra minimize & sew knit classes: Drafting a Camisole with a Shelf Bra, a Racerback Halter Tank; and a knit neckline collection that features: how one can draft an Uneven, Constructed-up, Boatneck, Collared, Cowl, Crewneck, Off Shoulder, Scoop, Sq., Surplice, Turtleneck and a V-Neckline.
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