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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)
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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
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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!

yarn deliveries, the daily commute and Cotton Inc.

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my initial design (#1).

So here we have a little update on my actual design and what I’ve been working on.  Well this is my first look… my “show piece” I guess you would say.  My second look (while I of course would want it to get in the show as well) is my Cotton Inc. garment, which means for knitwear students that the majority of each piece has to be made of cotton, but because we are creating the fabric, we can do a two/3 etc ply as long as it’s vastly made up of cotton.

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yarn selection.

This is the colour card I chose from to order my Superfine Merino yarn (from Jaggerspun)… the ones circled are the ones I am using.  They knit up SO gorgeously… I couldn’t be happier about these purchases.

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the daily commute.

This is me nearly every day making my morning/evening commute too-and-from Brooklyn.  I seriously look like a bag lady and have to watch that I won’t gauge someone’s eye out with my hip curve ruler or prick someone with a pin coming through one of my various bags.

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cotton yarn delivery.

jade green mercerized cotton yarn.

Yay!  I’m super excited, I just received my shipment of my mercerized cotton yarns from UKI on Friday.  I’m really excited to get going on my second (Cotton Inc.) outfit.  I’ll update soon about what that look is all about.

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Chi Chi models my jacquard fabric.

Here’s my jacquard fabric you saw on my last post as I was knitting it out.  My roommate’s framed drag queen portrait (she named her Chi Chi) is displaying it fabulously.

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design submission.

I submitted this last week for the judges to see… It had to show the front and back of my look and all my fabric swatches.  And BTW, that piece of plastic is intentional — I’m using vinyl as inserts in my moto jacket!