Introduction to Knitwear Design Online Short Course

This online course will teach you the fundamentals of knitwear, such as yarn properties, hand knitting techniques and texture. Learn how to create swatches and hand sketch your own knitwear designs.

Topics

• Introduction to Knitwear
• Current knitwear trends
• How luxury designers incorporate knitwear into their collections
• Construction of Knit
• Carrying out personal research – collecting imagery, taking photographs
• Experimenting with colour and selecting yarns
• Learning the construction of hand knit and producing hand knitted swatches
• Working to a brief
• Selecting final yarns and colours showing different textures for final swatches
• Learning about yarns, suppliers and the construction of knit
• Learning the basic purl stitch hand knitting technique
• Fashion Design sketches based on knitted swatches and a final hand sketched line up of 8 outfits involving the selected swatches
• Portfolio/Sketchbook of work for review