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>.< Too much knitting.

There is one week until we get pre judged on our garments which means we need 90% done . Ugh. Today I think the coffee got the best of me because after about 11 hours in the knitting lab today my hands are still shaking. I was having a hard time picking up dropped stitches. It has definitely paid off though. I got a ton of my trims done today and my dress is almost completely assembled. It’s worth the shaky vision and twitching muscles.

So here is where I have progressed at this moment!

My intarsia sweater is basically done! Just need to bury some ends

I’m looking pretty great too right? ok not really

Today I also knit down a bunch of trims and linked them on the linker!

I was really scared of this machine until today when I realized it indeed is a godsend.

And finally this is where my dress has gotten after my full day in the lab!

So far I think I’m on track! As long as I can stick to my schedule and be preoductive the rest of the lab days this week I believe I will succeed at finishing!

Wish me luck

send me coffee

and sugar

Casting on this week

We knitwear students were lucky enough to receive a bunch of free yarn courtesy of Lion Brand and we received a bunch of it on Wednesday!
Here are some of the yarns that I got and spun onto some cones to be ready for the machines!

There’s some really beautiful, soft mohair in there. mmmm soft

Then I started testing out some of the yarns on the brother machine.

This weekend though I was able to get back on the stoll machine and knit down my intarsia to find out how it would run. After a long morning of setting up the program and machine, I finally got to knitting on the machine only to find that there were a few glitches leaving my first knit down with a bunch of holes and runs, but, of course, nothing’s ever perfect on the first try now is it? With some fine tuning and revision of yarns I was able to come up with something! There are still a few dropped stitches and the yarns will be a little different but it’s a step in the right direction!

Hopefully I will be able to program my sweater into this computer this week and knit it down soon with my cotton yarns!

Time is winding down so quickly already and things are so busy trying to find time for school, interning, and working… or daydreaming about what I’m going to do after school or thinking about how nice is must be on a sunny and foreign coast right now.
I digress
Just hope I have enough coffee to make it through these next few weeks!

^.^

Welcome to the wonderful world of knitting!

Hey guys!

I’m Aimee and I’m here to take you inside the basement of F.I.T. …. the knitting dungeon! So let me brief you on what I will be working on this semester! I am working on some pieces inspired by the rainforest. There’s a lot of prints and fun color.. well bubblegum colored things if you think that defines fun. Anyways, below are my sketches for the show… (subject to multiple changes along this journey)

Now that you have an idea of what my style looks like I can show you some of the technical work behind this and what I have been working on this past week!

Below are the patterns I am drafting to mock up my prototypes. fun fun!

and I also got a bunch of cotton yarn in!

but I believe there is a lot more yarn I am going to have to purchase that I’m going to have to test out for these garments!

Today was a fun day though! I started working on my intarsia sweater and I’m really excited about it! I’m using the Stoll machine to knit down the sweater so my work is all computer generated!
Here is the image I used for the sweater exported into 4 colors which will translate into 4 yarn colors..

and then here it is translated into the stoll program

Unfortunately I was not able to knit down the swatch today because the file I’ve made on the computer is quite complicated to knit and will take a little more time than I bargained for, but nonetheless it shall be done!

Will keep up with you guys through the week!

Ask me questions if you have them! I’d love to give you guys a chance to have all your questions answered, too whether it be about knitting, or fashion, or F.I.T. or what I had for lunch, or if my knitwear girls and I refer to ourselves as knitty biddys.. WHATEVER YOU GOT. sky’s the limit!