{"id":133,"date":"2010-03-14T22:37:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T03:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/futureoffashion\/?p=133"},"modified":"2014-02-10T22:21:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T03:21:32","slug":"a-knitwear-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/futureoffashion\/2010\/03\/14\/a-knitwear-story\/","title":{"rendered":"a knitwear story."},"content":{"rendered":"

So as my first blog entry, I thought I’d sort of give a summary of what us knitwear students have to do.\u00a0 Rather than go to the Garment District and purchase our fabric off of a roll, we actually purchase the yarns we wish to make our fabric out of<\/em>, and essentially start from scratch.\u00a0 Some of the garments we make are made out of yard goods (where we knit a square of fabric and cut our patterns out of it), but we are mostly encouraged to knit our fabric precisely to the shape of the pattern itself.\u00a0 There’s a lot more detail to it than that, however, so I came up with a nice little guide to the process we go through!\u00a0 Here it is (hopefully I’m not missing any steps):<\/p>\n

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a comprehensive guide to the knitwear journey.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

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a comprehensive guide to the knitwear journey pt II.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Currently I am on step 9\/10 with my first garment (gack!\u00a0 not nearly as far ahead as Nasya!), and have a LOT to do on garment #2.\u00a0 Since we started quite a while ago, I started recording some of my steps within the last few weeks, so I’ll do my next couple of posts as a sort of catch up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So as my first blog entry, I thought I’d sort of give a summary of what us knitwear students have to do.\u00a0 Rather than go to the Garment District and purchase our fabric off of a roll, we actually purchase the yarns we wish to make our fabric out of, and essentially start from scratch.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,139],"tags":[33211],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dani","category-knitwear","tag-knitwear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/futureoffashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/futureoffashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/futureoffashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/futureoffashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/futureoffashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/futureoffashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/futureoffashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/futureoffashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/futureoffashion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}